The University of Osaka

The University of Osaka, known in Japanese as Osaka Daigaku and informally as Handai, is a national research university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the country's former imperial universities.大阪大学（The University of Osaka），日文名大阪大学，简称阪大，是位于日本大阪府的一所国立研究型大学，也是日本旧制帝国大学之一。

Its academic traditions reach back to the Kaitokudo school of 1724 and the Tekijuku school of 1838, and it was formally established in 1931 as the sixth of Japan's imperial universities with faculties of science and medicine.其学术传统可追溯到 1724 年的怀德堂与 1838 年的适塾，学校于 1931 年作为日本第六所帝国大学正式成立，初设理学与医学两个学部。

It is the largest national university in Japan by undergraduate enrolment, with 23,226 students and 3,357 faculty in 2024, of whom 15,075 were undergraduates and 8,151 postgraduates, and it placed 95th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.按本科规模计算，该校是日本规模最大的国立大学，2024 年有学生 23226 人、教师 3357 人，其中本科生 15075 人、研究生 8151 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 95。

History

• The humanities tradition of the university comes from the Kaitokudo, a school for local merchants and townspeople founded in 1724 during the Edo period and run by Osaka scholars.学校的人文传统源自怀德堂，这是江户时代 1724 年为本地商人及市民创办、由大阪学者主持的一所学塾。

• The scientific tradition comes from the Tekijuku, a school of Western learning for samurai founded in 1838 by the physician Ogata Koan in Osaka, which trained many of the leaders of Japan's modernisation.其科学传统则源自适塾，这是医师绪方洪庵于 1838 年在大阪创办、培养武士学习西学的兰学塾，为日本近代化输送了大批人才。

• Its modern origins lie in the Osaka Prefectural Medical School, founded in central Osaka in 1869 by associates of the Tekijuku.其近代源头是 1869 年由适塾相关人士在大阪市中心创办的大阪府立医学校。

• In 1880 the temporary hospital and medical school were made the Osaka Prefectural Hospital and the Osaka Prefectural Medical College, and in 1896 a technical school was set up that later became the Osaka Institute of Technology.1880 年临时的医院与医学校正式改为大阪府立医院与大阪府立医学校，1896 年又设立工业学校，后来发展为大阪工业大学。

• In 1915 the medical school became the Osaka Prefectural Medical College with university status under the imperial ordinance on universities, and it was renamed the Osaka Medical College in 1919.1915 年该校依大学令升格为具备大学地位的大阪府立医科大学，1919 年改称大阪医科大学。

• In 1921 a state-run Osaka School of Foreign Languages was founded with the support of a donation from the businesswoman Hayashi Chocho, and it later became the Osaka University of Foreign Studies.1921 年，在女实业家林蝶子捐赠的支持下，官立大阪外国语学校成立，后来发展为大阪外国语大学。

• In 1931, amid public calls for a comprehensive university in Osaka, the Osaka Imperial University was created by combining the medical college with a new college of science, with the physicist Hantaro Nagaoka as its first president.1931 年，在民众要求在大阪设立综合性大学的呼声中，大阪医科大学与新设的理学院合并成立大阪帝国大学，物理学家长冈半太郎出任首任校长。

• Nagaoka was a pioneer of Japanese physics and had earlier proposed a Saturnian model of the atom.长冈半太郎是日本物理学先驱，曾提出原子的「土星模型」。

• In 1933 the Osaka Imperial University absorbed the engineering faculty of the Osaka Institute of Technology, adding a school of engineering.1933 年，大阪帝国大学兼并大阪工业大学的工学部，增设工学院。

• The institution was renamed Osaka University in 1947, dropping the imperial designation after the Second World War.1947 年，学校在二战后去掉帝国字样，改称大阪大学。

• In 1949, under the postwar education reform, it merged with the old Osaka Higher School, Naniwa High School and Osaka Pharmaceutical College to become a comprehensive university with five faculties.1949 年，在战后教育改革中，学校合并旧制大阪高等学校、浪速高等学校与大阪药学专门学校，成为拥有五个学部的综合性大学。

• In 1953 the faculty of law and economics was divided into separate faculties of law and of economics, and ten graduate schools were established under the reform programme.1953 年法经学部分设为法学部与经济学部，学校并依改革方案设立了十个研究科。

• The Institute of Social and Economic Research, founded in 1954 under the economist Yasuma Takada, soon became a national centre for social and economic studies, and nearly half of the successive presidents of the Japanese Economic Association have been connected with it.1954 年由经济学家高田保马主持成立的社会经济研究所很快成为日本社会经济研究的重镇，历任日本经济学会会长近半数与该所相关。

• New faculties followed in the postwar decades, including pharmaceutical sciences in 1955, dentistry in 1960, engineering science in 1961 and human sciences in 1972.战后数十年间学校陆续增设新学部，包括 1955 年的药学部、1960 年的牙学部、1961 年的基础工学部与 1972 年的人类科学部。

• The School of Engineering Science was the first of its kind in Japan, and the School of Human Sciences covers cross-disciplinary fields such as psychology, sociology and education.基础工学部是日本同类学部中的首创，人类科学部则涵盖心理学、社会学与教育学等跨学科领域。

• In 1991 the university adopted its present emblem and sky-blue colour, and in 1993 the university hospital moved from central Osaka to the Suita campus, completing the consolidation of facilities.1991 年学校采用现行校徽与天蓝色校色，1993 年附属医院从中之岛迁至吹田校区，完成了设施整合。

• In 2004 the university was reorganised as a national university corporation under the National University Corporation Act.2004 年，学校依据国立大学法人法改组为国立大学法人大阪大学。

• In October 2007 it merged with the Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Minoh, gaining a school of foreign studies and becoming the largest national university in Japan by undergraduate enrolment.2007 年 10 月，学校合并位于箕面的外国语大学，增设外国语学部，按本科规模成为日本最大的国立大学。

• In 2018 the Ministry of Education designated it a Designated National University Corporation, and in 2022 its literature and language faculties were reorganised into a single graduate school of humanities.2018 年日本文部科学省将其指定为「指定国立大学法人」，2022 年其文学与语言研究科又整合为一个人文科学研究科。

• In April 2025 the university changed its official English name from Osaka University to The University of Osaka.2025 年 4 月，学校把正式英文名从大阪大学改为 The University of Osaka。

Academics

• The university has eleven undergraduate schools and fifteen graduate schools covering letters, human sciences, foreign studies, law, economics, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering and engineering science.学校设有十一个学部与十五个研究科，涵盖文学、人类科学、外国语、法学、经济学、理学、医学、牙学、药学、工学与基础工学。

• It also operates 21 research institutes, four libraries and two university hospitals.学校还运营二十一个附属研究所、四所图书馆与两所附属医院。

• In 2024 it had 23,226 students and 3,357 faculty, and its operating budget was 186.7 billion yen in 2023, with 537 research students and auditors enrolled alongside degree students.2024 年学校有学生 23226 人、教师 3357 人，2023 年度运营预算为 1867 亿日元，另有研究生与旁听生 537 人。

• The university is one of the most selective in Japan, usually placed after the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University in selectivity tables, and it is one of only two national universities with a school of foreign studies.学校是日本录取竞争最激烈的大学之一，在各招生难度榜单中通常仅次于东京大学与京都大学，并且是日本仅有的两所设有外国语学部的国立大学之一。

• It is a leading centre of immunology, ranking first in Japan and fourth worldwide in the field, and is also strong in materials science and chemistry.学校是世界免疫学研究的重镇，该领域在日本居首、世界第四，在材料科学与化学领域同样实力雄厚。

• In the Nature Index 2024 annual table it ranked 34th globally for research output in the natural and health sciences, third in Japan.在《自然指数》2024 年度榜单中，学校在自然科学与健康科学领域的科研产出位列全球第 34、日本第 3。

• Its research institutes include the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Protein Institute, the Laser Science Institute and the Institute of Social and Economic Research.其附属研究所包括微生物病研究所、产业科学研究所、蛋白质研究所、激光科学研究所与社会经济研究所。

• The School of Human Sciences runs a four-year English-medium undergraduate degree, begun in 2011 under the national Global 30 project, teaching sociology, anthropology, philosophy, education, psychology and human development.人类科学部开设四年制全英文授课本科项目，2011 年在国家「全球三十」计划下启动，教授社会学、人类学、哲学、教育学、心理学与人类发展等方向。

• A graduate programme in Global Japanese Studies is offered in English through the Graduate School of Humanities.人文科学研究科还开设全英文授课的「全球日本研究」研究生项目。

• The university holds 156 inter-university agreements and 651 inter-faculty agreements, and maintains overseas centres for education and research in San Francisco, Groningen, Bangkok and Shanghai.学校缔结校际协议 156 项、院际协议 651 项，并在旧金山、格罗宁根、曼谷与上海设有海外教育与研究中心。

• Its partners include Cornell, Harvard, Stanford and Caltech in the United States, McGill and Toronto in Canada, Seoul National University in South Korea, and Peking and Tsinghua in China.其合作院校包括美国的康奈尔、哈佛、斯坦福与加州理工，加拿大的麦吉尔与多伦多，韩国的首尔国立，以及中国的北大与清华。

• In the 2024 QS rankings by subject its chemistry programme ranked 58th, physics 45th and biological sciences 84th worldwide, and its dentistry programme 51st to 100th.在 2024 年 QS 学科排名中，其化学位列世界第 58、物理第 45、生物科学第 84，牙医学位列第 51 至 100 区间。

• Thomson Reuters ranked the university second in Japan and 22nd worldwide for innovation, and it ranks third in Japan for the number of patents accepted in 2017.汤森路透把该校的创新力列为日本第 2、世界第 22，其 2017 年获批专利数量在日本排名第 3。

• The university runs a dental hospital and a medical hospital that support clinical teaching and research across its health sciences faculties.学校设有牙科医院与医学附属医院，为其健康科学各学部提供临床教学与研究支撑。

• Some of its staff are represented by the General Union, part of the National Union of General Workers.其部分教职工由全劳联所属的综合工会代表。

• The university awards doctoral degrees across its graduate schools, with 3,374 doctoral students enrolled in 2024, and it operates a joint graduate school of child development with four other Japanese universities.学校在各研究科授予博士学位，2024 年在读博士生 3374 人，并与另外四所日本大学合办儿童发展联合研究科。

• The university's specialist strengths include clinical medicine, dentistry, immunology, materials science and laser science, reflecting its long medical and engineering heritage.学校的专长领域包括临床医学、牙学、免疫学、材料科学与激光科学，体现出其深厚的医学与工程底蕴。

Campus

• The university's campuses lie in Toyonaka, Suita, Minoh and Osaka, with the main academic sites covering about 1.58 square kilometres and the whole institution occupying about 1.6 million square metres.学校校区分布在丰中、吹田、箕面与大阪市，主要教学用地约 1.58 平方公里，全校占地约 160 万平方米。

• The Toyonaka Campus, covering 445,851 square metres, houses the faculties of humanities, law, economics, science and engineering science, and all first-year undergraduates study general education there.丰中校区占地 445851 平方米，设有人文、法学、经济学、理学与基础工学等学部，所有本科新生都在此接受通识教育。

• The Suita Campus, covering 997,071 square metres, houses medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering and human sciences, together with the university hospital and the nuclear physics research centre.吹田校区占地 997071 平方米，设有医学、牙学、药学、工学与人类科学等学部，以及附属医院与核物理研究中心。

• The Minoh Campus, covering 140,400 square metres, is home to the School of Foreign Studies and the Centre for Japanese Language and Culture, and moved in 2021 to a new ten-storey building near Minoh-Kayano Station, opened with the railway extension in 2024.箕面校区占地 140400 平方米，设外国语学部与日本语言文化教育中心，2021 年迁入箕面萱野站附近一座十层新楼，该站随铁路延伸于 2024 年启用。

• The former Nakanoshima Campus in central Osaka, the university's birthplace, became the Nakanoshima Centre in 2004, with about 1,000 square metres of site and a building area of about 8,158 square metres used for public lectures and academic exchange.位于大阪市中心的中之岛旧校区是学校的诞生地，2004 年改建为中之岛中心，占地约 1000 平方米、建筑面积约 8158 平方米，用于公开讲座与学术交流。

• The Toyonaka Campus's general education hall was registered as a tangible cultural property of Japan in 2004, and the old crossed-ginkgo emblem can still be seen on the roof relief of the Human Sciences building.丰中校区的共通教育本馆于 2004 年被登记为日本有形文化财产，旧版交叉银杏校徽至今仍可见于人类科学部正门的屋顶浮雕。

• Free shuttle buses link the Toyonaka, Suita and Minoh campuses from 7 in the morning to 8 in the evening, running roughly every twenty minutes.丰中、吹田与箕面三个校区之间有免费班车相连，运行时间为上午七点至晚上八点，约每二十分钟一班。

• The university's emblem, two crossed ginkgo leaves designed by Ikko Tanaka, represents its two founding faculties, and the symbol was renewed in 1991 for the sixtieth anniversary.学校校徽由田中一光设计，为两片交叉的银杏叶，象征两个创校学部，1991 年建校六十周年时更新为现行图案。

• The mascot is Dr. Wani, a crocodile character, and the university's colour is sky blue.学校吉祥物是鳄鱼形象「鳄鱼博士」，校色为天蓝色。

• Nearly 59 sports clubs and 70 culture clubs are authorised, with sports activities concentrated on the Toyonaka Campus except tennis, which is at Suita.学校认可近 59 个体育社团与 70 个文化社团，体育活动多集中在丰中校区，网球则设在吹田。

Reputation

• The University of Osaka ranks 95th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, tied 147th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 264th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities.大阪大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 95，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 147，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 264。^[1]

• It is consistently ranked among the top three or four universities in Japan, alongside the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and Tohoku University, and the QS 2026 edition placed it third in Japan.学校长期与东京大学、京都大学、东北大学并列，位居日本前三至前四之列，2026 年 QS 榜更把其列为日本第三。

• In the QS ranking by broad subject area its natural sciences stand 93rd, life sciences and medicine 113th and engineering and technology 109th in the world.在 QS 的学科大领域排名中，其自然科学位列世界第 93，生命科学与医学第 113，工程与技术第 109。

• In the ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects its dentistry and oral sciences programme ranks 21st in the world and first in Japan.在软科世界一流学科排名中，其牙学与口腔科学位列世界第 21、日本第 1。

• The immunologists Shizuo Akira and Shimon Sakaguchi, both associated with the university, are among the most cited researchers in their field.与该校长年相关的免疫学家审良静男与坂口志文，都是其领域内被引用最多的研究者之列。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 329,054 works cited 27,539,576 times.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表论著 329054 篇，被引用 27539576 次。

• Osaka is regarded as one of the world's leading centres for immunology research, and its life sciences are placed 68th globally by Times Higher Education.该校被视为世界领先的免疫学研究中心之一，其生命科学在泰晤士高等教育榜单中位列世界第 68。

• Four Nobel laureates in the sciences have been associated with the university as graduates, faculty or honorary professors.共有四位自然科学领域的诺贝尔奖得主曾以毕业生、教师或荣誉教授身份与学校相关。

• It ranks seventh in Japan for research funding per researcher and, according to Thomson Reuters, 22nd worldwide for innovation.学校的人均科研经费在日本排名第 7，据汤森路透统计其创新力世界排名第 22。

• The university is a member of the National Seven Universities, the RU11 research consortium and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.学校是日本国立七大学、学术研究恳谈会（RU11）与环太平洋大学联盟的成员。

Student life

• The university motto is a Japanese phrase, Chiiki ni iki sekai ni nobiru, meaning Live Locally and Grow Globally.学校校训为日文「地域に生き 世界に伸びる」，意为「立足本土，走向世界」。

• The anniversary and identity of the university are tied to the ginkgo, the prefectural tree of Osaka, and to the blue-and-white emblem introduced in 1991.学校标识与大阪府府树银杏紧密相连，校徽为 1991 年启用的蓝白配色。

• The University of Osaka and Nagoya University hold an annual athletics competition, and Osaka also holds a regular windsurfing competition with Kyoto and Kobe universities and Taiwan's National Sun Yat-sen University.大阪大学与名古屋大学每年举办体育对抗赛，学校还与京都大学、神户大学以及台湾中山大学定期举行风帆冲浪比赛。

• The university has around 130 authorised student clubs, and its Toyonaka Campus is the busiest of the three for club activity.学校约有 130 个经认可的学生社团，丰中校区是三个校区中社团活动最活跃的。

• All first-year undergraduates study general education at the Toyonaka Campus before moving to their faculty sites.所有本科新生先在丰中校区接受通识教育，之后再到各学部的所在校区学习。

• The novel and television drama The Great White Tower is set at a fictional Naniwa University modelled on the University of Osaka.小说与电视剧《白色巨塔》中的虚构「浪速大学」即以大阪大学为原型。

• The university mascot Dr. Wani appears at entrance ceremonies and campus festivals, and the anniversary is marked by ginkgo-themed events.学校吉祥物「鳄鱼博士」会出现在入学典礼与校园节庆上，校庆则以银杏为主题举办活动。

• Foreign Studies students study one of more than twenty languages offered by the school, from Chinese and Korean to Swahili and Portuguese.外国语学部学生须从学校开设的二十余种语言中择一学习，从中文、韩文到斯瓦希里语与葡萄牙语不等。

Notable people

• Ogata Koan, the physician who founded the Tekijuku in 1838, is one of the intellectual forefathers of the university, and his school trained many leaders of the Meiji era.1838 年创办适塾的医师绪方洪庵，被视为学校的思想先行者之一，其学塾培养了大批明治时代的领袖。

• Hantaro Nagaoka, a pioneer of Japanese physics, was the first president of the Osaka Imperial University in 1931.日本物理学先驱长冈半太郎于 1931 年出任大阪帝国大学首任校长。

• Hideki Yukawa, who earned his doctorate at the university and won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics, was the first Japanese Nobel laureate.在该校取得博士学位并获 1949 年诺贝尔物理学奖的汤川秀树，是日本首位诺贝尔奖得主。

• Yoichiro Nambu, a special honorary professor, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Akira Yoshino, who earned his doctorate here, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.特别荣誉教授南部阳一郎获 2008 年诺贝尔物理学奖，在此取得博士学位的吉野彰获 2019 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist at the university who also won the 2017 Crafoord Prize, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.该校免疫学家、2017 年克拉福德奖得主坂口志文获 2025 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Kenichi Fukui, the first Asian winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981, was a graduate of the old Osaka Higher School that merged into the university.1981 年成为首位获得诺贝尔化学奖的亚洲人福井谦一，是并入该校的旧制大阪高等学校校友。

• Osamu Hayaishi won the 1986 Wolf Prize in Medicine and Hidesaburo Hanafusa won the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.早石修获 1986 年沃尔夫医学奖，花房秀三郎获 1982 年拉斯克基础医学研究奖。

• Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Toshio Hirano, both later presidents of the university, shared the 2009 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis.后来先后出任校长的岸本忠三与平野俊夫，共同获得 2009 年克拉福德多关节炎奖。

• Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony, and Masataka Taketsuru, regarded as the father of Japanese whisky, both studied at the university.索尼联合创始人盛田昭夫与被尊为日本威士忌之父的竹鹤政孝都曾在此求学。

• The manga artist Osamu Tezuka, the novelists Ryotaro Shiba and Seishi Yokomizo, and the Taiwanese-Japanese writer Chin Shunshin are among its arts alumni.漫画家手冢治虫、小说家司马辽太郎与横沟正史，以及台湾裔日本作家陈舜臣，都是该校的文艺界校友。

• The Chinese geologist Li Siguang, a founder of Chinese geological science, studied at what became the university, and Heizo Takenaka later served as a Japanese cabinet minister.中国地质学奠基人李四光曾在后来并入该校的学校学习，竹中平藏则后来出任日本内阁大臣。