Nagoya University

Nagoya University, known in Japanese as Nagoya daigaku and commonly abbreviated to Meidai, is a national research university in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.名古屋大学（日文名古屋大学，简称名大）是一所位于日本爱知县名古屋市千种区的国立研究型大学。

Chartered in 1939 as the last of the imperial universities and tracing its origins to a medical school of 1871, it places 156th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and is one of Japan's designated national universities.学校于 1939 年作为最后一所帝国大学正式设立，其渊源可追溯至 1871 年的医学校，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 156，是日本指定国立大学之一。

History

• The university traces its origin to the temporary hospital and temporary medical school founded by Nagoya Prefecture in 1871.学校的渊源可追溯至 1871 年由名古屋县设立的临时医院与临时医学校。

• In 1878 the institution was renamed the public medical school, and in 1881 it became the Aichi Medical School.1878 年，该校更名为公立医学校；1881 年又改称爱知医学校。

• It was renamed the Aichi Prefectural Medical School in 1901 and the Aichi Prefectural Medical College in 1903.1901 年，学校更名为爱知县立医学校；1903 年又改称爱知县立医学专门学校。

• In 1920 the college became Aichi Medical University under the university ordinance of the time.1920 年，该校依据当时的大学法改设为爱知医科大学。

• In 1931 it was transferred to national control and renamed Nagoya Medical University.1931 年，学校转为国立并更名为名古屋医科大学。

• In 1939, under the Imperial University Ordinance, its medical faculty was combined with a newly created faculty of science and engineering to form Nagoya Imperial University, the last imperial university of the Japanese Empire.1939 年，依据《帝国大学法》，其医学部与新设的理工学部合并为名古屋帝国大学，这也是日本帝国的最后一所帝国大学。

• In 1942 the science and engineering faculty was divided into a faculty of science and a faculty of engineering.1942 年，理工学部分设为理学部与工学部。

• The university was renamed Nagoya University in 1947, and a faculty of law and literature was established in 1948.1947 年，学校更名为名古屋大学；1948 年又设立法文学部。

• In 1950 the faculty of law and literature was split into a faculty of law and a faculty of economics, and a faculty of agriculture followed in 1951.1950 年，法文学部分设法学部与经济学部；1951 年又设立农学部。

• In 1977 the nursing school attached to the medical faculty was reorganised as a junior college of medical technology.1977 年，医学部附属的看护学校改组为医疗技术短期大学部。

• The Graduate School of International Development was established in 1991 and the Graduate School of Informatics in 1992.学校于 1991 年设立国际开发研究科，1992 年设立信息研究科。

• In 1993 the liberal arts division was abolished and a school of informatics and culture created, giving the university a system of nine faculties.1993 年，教养部被废止并设立信息文化学部，学校由此形成九学部体制。

• The Graduate School of Mathematics was established in 1995.学校于 1995 年设立多元数理科学研究科。

• In 1998 the medical technology junior college was closed and a department of health sciences opened, while the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures was founded.1998 年，医疗技术短期大学部被废止并设立医学部保健学科，同年又成立国际语言文化研究科。

• The Graduate School of Environmental Studies was established in 2001 and a Graduate School of Information Science in 2003.学校于 2001 年设立环境学研究科，2003 年设立信息科学研究科。

• In 2004, under the National University Corporation Law, the university became National University Corporation Nagoya University.2004 年，依据《国立大学法人法》，学校成为国立大学法人名古屋大学。

• In March 2018 it was chosen as one of the first five designated national universities in Japan.2018 年 3 月，学校入选日本首批五所指定国立大学。

• In April 2020 it joined Gifu University to form the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Japan's largest national higher education corporation.2020 年 4 月，学校与岐阜大学共同组建东海国立大学机构，成为日本规模最大的国立高等教育法人。

Academics

• The university has nine faculties: humanities, education, law and political science, economics, informatics, science, medicine, engineering, and agriculture.学校设有九个学部：文学部、教育学部、法学部、经济学部、信息学部、理学部、医学部、工学部与农学部。

• It enrols about 9,585 undergraduates and 6,187 postgraduates, supported by some 3,847 faculty members.学校在校本科生约 9585 人、研究生约 6187 人，教师约 3847 人。

• Graduate teaching is organised into fourteen graduate schools, among them humanities, education and human development, law and political science, economics, informatics, science, medicine, engineering, bioagricultural sciences, international development, mathematics, environmental studies and pharmaceutical sciences.研究生教育设十四个研究科，包括文学、教育发达科学、法学、经济学、信息学、理学、医学、工学、生命农学、国际开发、多元数理科学、环境学与药学等。

• The university is the birthplace of the Sakata School of physics and the Hirata School of chemistry.学校是物理学“坂田学派”与化学“平田学派”的诞生地。

• Research achievements associated with it include the Sakata model, the PMNS matrix, the Okazaki fragment, Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation and the blue light-emitting diode.与学校相关的科研成果包括坂田模型、PMNS 矩阵、冈崎片段、野依不对称氢化反应与蓝光二极管。

• Its principal research institutes are the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability and the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe.学校的主要研究机构包括转化生物分子研究所、宇宙地球环境研究所、材料与系统可持续性研究所以及小林益川粒子与宇宙起源研究所。

• The Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules was launched in April 2013 and brings together fourteen principal investigators from Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and the United States.转化生物分子研究所于 2013 年 4 月启动，汇集了来自日本、瑞士、德国、加拿大与美国的十四位首席研究员。

• It works across fields including parasitic plants, clock diseases, bioimaging and nanocarbon chemistry, runs an annual international symposium and presents the Hirata Award and the Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki Award.该研究所的研究涵盖寄生植物、生物钟疾病、生物成像与纳米碳化学等领域，每年举办国际研讨会，并颁发平田奖与冈崎恒子、冈崎令治奖。

• The Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research was formed in October 2015 by merging the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, the Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center and the Center for Chronological Research.宇宙地球环境研究所于 2015 年 10 月由太阳地球环境研究所、水圈大气研究中心与年代测定研究中心整合而成。

• Recognised by the ministry as a joint usage and research centre, it has seven divisions and three centres and pursues interdisciplinary work described as fusion research.该所被文部科学省认定为共同利用研究机构，下设七个部门与三个中心，开展被称为“融合研究”的跨学科工作。

• The Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, created in 2015 out of the EcoTopia Science Institute of 2004, studies energy conservation from materials and devices to whole systems.材料与系统可持续性研究所于 2015 年由 2004 年成立的生态乌托邦科学研究所（EcoTopia Science Institute）改组而来，从材料与器件到整体系统研究节能课题。

• It is recognised by the ministry as a joint usage and research centre and includes two research divisions funded by Chubu Electric Power and Toyota Motor Corporation.该所同样被认定为共同利用研究机构，其中两个研究部门分别由中部电力与丰田汽车公司资助。

• The Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, founded in 2010, is named after the university's 2008 Nobel laureates and hosts a centre for flavour physics opened in 2023.小林益川研究所成立于 2010 年，以学校两位 2008 年诺贝尔奖得主命名，并于 2023 年设立味物理内部研究中心。

• It has international partners including Tel Aviv University and Yonsei University and runs the dark-matter programme known as DMNet.该所与特拉维夫大学、延世大学等国际伙伴合作，并主持聚焦暗物质研究的 DMNet 项目。

• Since 2011 the university has offered English-taught Global 30 undergraduate and graduate programmes in fields such as humanities, law, economics, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine.学校自 2011 年起开设全英文授课的 Global 30 本科与研究生项目，涵盖人文、法学、经济学、理学、工学、农学与医学等领域。

• The Nagoya University Program for Academic Exchange, established in 1996, is a short exchange of four to twelve months that has welcomed more than 2,300 students from 155 institutions.名古屋大学学术交流项目始于 1996 年，为期四至十二个月，已接收来自 155 所院校的 2300 余名学生。

• Students may also study abroad under inter-university agreements with 161 universities and inter-school agreements with 306, and a joint PhD scheme sends doctoral candidates to partners such as Adelaide, Lund and Freiburg for at least a year.学生亦可依据 161 所校际协议院校与 306 所院际协议院校赴海外学习；联合博士项目则把博士生派往阿德莱德、隆德与弗赖堡等伙伴院校至少一年。

• As of 2021 total enrolment stood at 15,771, including more than 1,900 international students from over 110 countries.截至 2021 年，学校在校生总数为 15771 人，其中包括来自 110 多个国家和地区的 1900 余名国际学生。

• In the Global 30 programme international undergraduates take Japanese language classes, study in small cohorts and complete a thesis or a laboratory project.在 Global 30 项目中，国际本科生须修读日语课程，以小班形式学习，并完成论文或实验室研究。

• Besides NUPACE the university runs Campus Asia on East Asian law and politics, JUACEP for engineering research in Japan, the United States and Canada, NUSIP on automobile technology and NUSTEP for intensive Japanese language study.除 NUPACE 之外，学校还开设讨论东亚法律与政治学的 Campus Asia、面向工程研究的 JUACEP、聚焦汽车技术的 NUSIP 以及强化日语学习的 NUSTEP 等项目。

• The sustainability institute includes a centre for integrated research of future electronics, an advanced measurement technology centre, materials and systems research divisions and ten industry-academia collaborative chairs.该可持续性研究所下设未来电子集成研究中心、先进测量技术中心、材料研究部门与系统研究部门，以及十个产学研合作讲座。

• The bio-molecules institute mixes laboratories with offices, is equipped with high-quality instruments and keeps English-speaking administrative staff to support its international outlook.该生物分子研究所把实验室与办公室混合布置，配备大量高水平仪器，并聘用英语行政人员以支持其国际化。

• The space-earth institute runs an annual international symposium and a summer internship that accepts students from domestic and foreign universities.该宇宙地球环境研究所每年举办国际研讨会，并设有面向国内外高校学生的暑期实习项目。

• The university's Earthquake and Volcano Research Center is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction, reflecting its work on seismic and volcanic hazards in Japan.学校的地震与火山研究中心是全国地震预测协调委员会的成员，其工作围绕日本的地震与火山灾害展开。

• The particle-physics institute is divided into a division of experimental studies and a division of theoretical studies and does not admit students itself, although graduate students may join its research groups.其粒子物理研究所分为实验研究与理论研究两个部门，虽不直接招收学生，但研究生可以加入其研究团队。

Campus

• The main Higashiyama campus lies in Chikusa-ku and covers about 700,000 square metres, split into east and west halves by a north-south avenue.主校区东山校区位于千种区，占地约 70 万平方米，一条南北向大道把校园分为东西两半。

• At its centre are the Nagoya University subway station and a landscaped green area, with the Toyoda Auditorium to the east and the central library to the west.校园中心设有名古屋地铁“名古屋大学站”与一片绿地，向东通往丰田讲堂，向西则是中央图书馆。

• The Toyoda Auditorium, designed by the architect Fumihiko Maki, is the university's landmark building.由建筑师槙文彦设计的丰田讲堂是学校的标志性建筑。

• The Tsuruma campus houses the medical faculty and the university hospital and covers about one eighth of the Higashiyama campus, spanning Showa-ku and Chikusa-ku.鹤舞校区设医学部与附属医院，面积约为东山校区的八分之一，地跨昭和区与千种区。

• The Daiko campus holds the department of health sciences and is about half the size of the Tsuruma campus.大幸校区设医学部保健学科，面积约为鹤舞校区的一半。

• Beyond the city the university maintains facilities including a solar-terrestrial environment laboratory at Toyokawa, a marine laboratory at Toba and an experimental forest at Toyota.在城市之外，学校还设有丰川的太阳地球环境研究所、鸟羽的临海实验所与丰田市的演习林等设施。

• The Nagoya University Museum presents the institution's history and includes a corner devoted to its Nobel laureates.名古屋大学博物馆展示学校的历史，并设有专门的诺奖展区。

• The urban campus occupies about 3.2 square kilometres in total, and the Noyori Memorial building houses materials-science and academic-exchange functions.市区内的校园总面积约 3.2 平方公里；野依纪念会馆则承担材料科学研究与学术交流的功能。

• The western half of the Higashiyama campus is given over mainly to the humanities and social sciences and adjoins Nanzan University.东山校区西半部主要用于人文与社会科学，并与南山大学毗邻。

• The Tsuruma campus faces Tsuruma Park to the south and the Nagoya Institute of Technology to the east, and is served by Tsuruma station.鹤舞校区南邻鹤舞公园，东侧是名古屋工业大学，最近的车站为鹤舞站。

Reputation

• Nagoya University places 156th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 242nd in the 2027 Times Higher Education table and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.名古屋大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 156，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名并列第 242，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名处于 101 至 150 区间。

• Within Japan it is counted among the leading national universities, having ranked third nationally and 84th worldwide in the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在日本国内，学校被视为顶尖国立大学之一，在 2021 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列日本第三、世界第 84。

• Seven Nobel laureates have been associated with the university, the third highest number in Japan and Asia behind Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo.与学校相关的诺贝尔奖得主共有七人，这一数目在日本及亚洲仅次于京都大学与东京大学，位列第三。

• Of these seven, four served as professors and three studied there as alumni, and the 2021 physics laureate Syukuro Manabe was a specially invited professor from 2007 to 2014.七人中有四位曾任教授、三位为校友，2021 年物理学奖得主真锅淑郎则在 2007 至 2014 年间担任特任教授。

• Nearly half of Japan's natural-science Nobel laureates of the twenty-first century have connections to the university.进入 21 世纪后，日本自然科学领域的诺贝尔奖得主中近一半与该校有渊源。

• It ranks sixth in Japan for scientific research, with 1.3 per cent of its publications among the most highly cited, and held the fifth highest number of accepted patents among Japanese universities with 111 in 2019.学校在日本的科研排名中位列第六，其 1.3% 的论文属高被引之列；2019 年其获批专利数为 111 项，在日本高校中排名第五。

• In a 2011 Thomson Reuters assessment its strongest fields were identified as physics, chemistry, and biology and biochemistry.在 2011 年汤森路透的评估中，其最强领域被认定为物理学、化学以及生物学与生物化学。

• In a 2020 Toyo Keizai ranking its graduates had the twelfth best employment rate among the 400 largest companies in Japan.在 2020 年《东洋经济》的榜单中，其毕业生在日本 400 家大型企业的就业率排名第十二。

• In 2015 the university was named by UN Women as one of five gender-equality champion universities worldwide.2015 年，学校被联合国妇女署选为全球五所“性别平等冠军大学”之一。

• The university belongs to the RU11 group of leading Japanese research universities and to the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.学校是日本顶尖研究型大学组成的 RU11 集团成员，也是环太平洋大学联盟的成员。

Student life

• Its motto is the Japanese phrase yuki aru chishikijin, usually rendered as the courageous intellectual.学校校训为日文“勇気ある知識人”，意为“有勇气的知识人”。

• Its academic charter of 2000 emphasises independence, creativity, a pioneering spirit and internationalism, and its academic style is described as free, open and enterprising.2000 年制定的大学宪章强调自主性、创造性、先进性与国际性，其学风被形容为自由、豁达与进取。

• The first president adopted the principle of valuing harmony from the Seventeen-article constitution as a guiding ethos of the whole university.首任校长以十七条宪法中的“以和为贵”为座右铭，并将其作为全校的基本精神。

• Most students come from the Tokai region, with those from Aichi, Gifu and Mie prefectures making up more than seventy per cent of the student body.多数学生来自东海地区，其中爱知、岐阜与三重三县的学生占全校的七成以上。

• The Federation of Liberal Arts Circles, founded in 1961, oversees more than sixty registered circles devoted to activities such as tea ceremony, art, music, dance and literature.教养文化社团联合会成立于 1961 年，统辖六十多个注册社团，涵盖茶道、美术、音乐、舞蹈与文学等活动。

• The athletic association, founded in 1956, has more than fifty member clubs.体育会成立于 1956 年，拥有五十多个成员俱乐部。

• The Seven Universities Athletic Meet has been held since 1962 among the former imperial universities, and Nagoya also contests an annual athletics competition with Osaka University.七所旧帝国大学之间的七大体育大会自 1962 年起举办，学校还与大阪大学每年举行名阪对抗赛。

• The Meidai-sai festival has been held every June since 1960 on the Higashiyama campus, offering about one hundred events and activities.“名大祭”自 1960 年起每年六月在东山校区举办，活动与项目约有一百项。

• The Ohmeikan international dormitory houses Japanese and international students together, with shared lounges, kitchens and laundry rooms on each floor.国际嘤鸣馆让日本学生与国际学生共同居住，每层设有公共活动室、厨房与洗衣房。

• Outside the Tokai region the abbreviation Meidai is sometimes pronounced differently in speech to avoid confusion with Meiji University, which shares the same written abbreviation.在东海地区以外，为与同样简称“明大”的明治大学相区别，其简称在口语中的读音有时会有所不同。

Notable people

• Shoichi Sakata, a theoretical physicist, developed the Sakata model of subatomic particles and founded a school of physics that bears his name.理论物理学家坂田昌一提出了亚原子粒子的坂田模型，并创立了以他命名的物理学派。

• Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that led to the CKM matrix.小林诚与益川敏英因奠定 CKM 矩阵的工作共同获得 2008 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue light-emitting diode.赤崎勇与天野浩因发明蓝光二极管共同获得 2014 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Syukuro Manabe received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for the physical modelling of the Earth's climate.真锅淑郎因对地球气候的物理建模获得 2021 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Ryoji Noyori won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and spent most of his academic career at the university.野依良治获得 2001 年诺贝尔化学奖，其学术生涯的大部分时间都在该校度过。

• Osamu Shimomura shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of green fluorescent protein.下村脩因发现绿色荧光蛋白共同获得 2008 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Reiji Okazaki and Tsuneko Okazaki were the molecular biologists who discovered the Okazaki fragments.冈崎令治与冈崎恒子是发现冈崎片段的分子生物学家。

• Shigefumi Mori is a 1990 Fields Medallist and Masaki Kashiwara won the 2025 Abel Prize, both having worked at the university.森重文是 1990 年菲尔兹奖得主，柏原正树获得 2025 年阿贝尔奖，两人都曾在该校工作。

• Shoichiro Toyoda, a former chief executive of Toyota Motor, and Uichiro Niwa, a former Japanese ambassador to China, are among its business and diplomatic alumni.丰田汽车前社长丰田章一郎与前日本驻华大使丹羽宇一郎，都是学校商界与外交界校友。

• Sumio Iijima, the inventor of carbon nanotubes, and Morinobu Endo, a pioneer of carbon nanofibre synthesis, are also associated with the university.发现纳米碳管的饭岛澄男与碳纳米纤维合成的先驱远藤守信，也与学校关系密切。