Tohoku University

Tohoku University is a Japanese national university in Sendai, in the prefecture of Miyagi, founded in 1907 as one of the old Imperial Universities and ranked 102nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.4东北大学（Tohoku University）是位于宫城县仙台市的日本国立大学，1907 年作为旧七所帝国大学之一设立，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第一百零二名，总分 68.4 分。

Recognised as a designated national university in June 2017 and as Japan's first International Institute of Excellence in November 2024, it enrolled 17,975 students as of 1 May 2025, of whom 1,806 were international, and it operates ten undergraduate faculties and sixteen graduate schools学校于 2017 年 6 月获认定为指定国立大学，2024 年 11 月成为日本第一所「国际卓越研究大学」；截至 2025 年 5 月 1 日在校生 17,975 人，其中留学生 1,806 人，学校设有十个学部与十六个研究科。

The university traces its principles to research first, open doors and respect for practical learning, and has been ranked first in Japan in the Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025学校以「研究第一」「门户开放」「实学尊重」为三大理念，并在 2020、2021、2022、2023 与 2025 年的泰晤士高等教育日本大学排名中连续位居日本第一。

History

• The university's history reaches back to Yōkendō, a domain academy established by the Sendai domain in 1736 that began medical instruction in 1760, and to the medical lecture of the domain school which in 1822 became the earliest Western-style medical lectures in Japan.学校的历史可上溯至 1736 年仙台藩设置的藩校养贤堂，该学堂于 1760 年开始医学教育；1822 年仙台藩学校开设的兰科课程，则是日本最早的西洋医学讲座。

• On 22 June 1907 Imperial Edict No. 236 established Tohoku Imperial University, and this date is observed as the university's foundation day, with Sapporo Agricultural College incorporated as its college of agriculture in September of that year.1907 年 6 月 22 日，敕令第二三六号公布设立东北帝国大学，学校以这一天作为创立纪念日；同年 9 月，札幌农学校被并入成为其农科大学。

• After the Ministry of Education commissioned Hantarō Nagaoka, then Japan's leading scientist, to select the first professors, eight of them, including Kotarō Honda and Mitsutarō Majima, were sent to Europe in the autumn of 1907 and returned to lead the new institution, with Masataro Sawayanagi, a former vice-minister of education, becoming the first president in 1911.文部省委托当时日本首席科学家长冈半太郎挑选首批教授人选后，1907 年秋派出包括本多光太郎、真岛理喜在内的八人赴欧留学，归来后主导建校；曾任文部省次官的泽柳政太郎于 1911 年出任首任总长。

• The university opened in Sendai in 1911 and adopted an open-door policy that widened admission beyond those holding a classical secondary certificate, and in 1913 it became the first of the Japanese imperial universities to admit women, taking three in the August intake.学校于 1911 年在仙台开学，并推行门户开放政策，将入学资格扩大到旧制高中以外的出身者；1913 年 8 月，它成为日本帝国大学中首家录取女性的大学，当届招收三人。

• In 1918 the college of agriculture split off to become Hokkaido Imperial University, today Hokkaido University, and in 1919 the system of colleges was replaced by a system of faculties in which the faculty of engineering was established1918 年农科大学分立独立，成立北海道帝国大学，即今日的北海道大学；1919 年依大学令，分科大学制改为学部制，并设立工学部。

• Kotarō Honda, known as the father of steel and president of the university from 1931, was the first to use the term research first as the slogan of the faculty of science, though the university's own centenary history states that attributing the phrase to Sawayanagi is an error, since the president of Kyushu University used a similar formulation at the time.被称为「钢铁之父」的本多光太郎于 1931 年出任总长，他最早将「研究第一」用作理学部的标语；不过学校百年史明确记载，把这一表述归于泽柳政太郎是错误的，因为当时九州大学总长也有类似提法。

• A fire destroyed the mechanical and electrical engineering classrooms in 1926, and the bombing of Sendai on 10 July 1945 burnt part of the campus, after which the university was reorganised under the new system in 1949, bringing together the Second High School, the Sendai Technical School, the Miyagi Normal School and the Miyagi Youth Normal School into a single university, with the former faculty of law and letters split into faculties of law, literature and economics.1926 年工学部机械科建筑失火，机械科与电气科教室等约八百坪全部焚毁；1945 年 7 月 10 日仙台空袭又烧毁校舍一部。1949 年学制改革，第二高等学校、仙台工业专门学校、宫城师范学校与宫城青年师范学校等官立学校统合改组，新制下的法文学部分拆为法学部、文学部与经济学部。

• The name Tohoku Imperial University dropped the word imperial in 1947, and in 1953 the university established its graduate school, adding a graduate school of medicine in 1955 and a graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences in 1961.1947 年，法定名称去掉「帝国」二字，改称东北大学；1953 年设立大学院，1955 年增设医学研究科，1961 年增设药学研究科。

• The university obtained the former Sendai Castle site occupied by the United States forces at Kawauchi and built the Kawauchi campus in 1957, and the faculty-based teacher training division of the faculty of education split off to become Miyagi University of Education in 1965, a step in the faculty's disaggregation.学校于 1957 年取得驻日美军原川内营地（仙台旧城二之丸）旧址，建设川内校区；1965 年，教育学部的教员养成系统分立为宫城教育大学，是该校分立调整的关键节点。

• The faculty of pharmacy was split off from the faculty of medicine in 1972, the Faculty of General Education was abolished in 1993, and under the National University Corporation Act of 2004 the institution became a national university corporation, restructuring its law graduate school into a law school and a school of public policy.1972 年药学部自医学部独立设置；1993 年废止教养部；2004 年依据《国立大学法人法》，学校改制为国立大学法人，并将法科大学院重组为法科大学院与公共政策大学院。

• The university acquired land in Aobayama in Miyagi Prefecture in 2006 to develop a new campus, marking its centenary with an official logo and official colours in 2007, and it created the nation's first graduate school of biomedical engineering in April 2009.2006 年学校从宫城县购入青叶山的土地，启动新校区整备；2007 年以创立一百周年为契机制定官方标志与官方色；2009 年 4 月，在日本首创医工学研究科。

• The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 devastated the campuses, killing two female students and one female high school applicant, closing twenty-seven buildings and cancelling the examinations, the graduation ceremony and the entrance ceremony2011 年 3 月 11 日的东日本大地震重创学校各校区，造成两名女学生与一名女高中预考生遇难，27 栋建筑封闭，考试、毕业典礼与入学式均被取消。

• The faculties of agriculture and others moved from the old Amamiya campus into the new Aobayama campus, which was completed on 15 May 2017, and in the same month the university was recognised as a designated national university corporation, ranking with Tokyo and Kyoto at the head of Japan's national universities.农学部等部局于 2017 年 4 月自旧雨宫校区迁入青叶山新校区，该校区于 2017 年 5 月 15 日竣工；同月，学校获认定为指定国立大学法人，与东京大学、京都大学并列日本国立大学之首。

• It published the Tohoku University Vision 2030 in November 2018, established the Institute for Green Future Creation in April 2021, was selected in August 2023 as a candidate to become an International Institute of Excellence, and on 8 November 2024 the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology formally recognised it as Japan's first institution with that designation学校于 2018 年 11 月发表《东北大学 Vision 2030》，2021 年 4 月设立绿色未来创造机构；2023 年 8 月作为「国际卓越研究大学」候选校获选，2024 年 11 月 8 日由文部科学省正式认定为日本第一所该校。

Academics

• The university has ten undergraduate faculties, namely arts and letters, education, law, economics, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, engineering and agriculture, together with sixteen graduate schools and three professional graduate schools for law, public policy and accounting学校设有十个学部，即文学部、教育学部、法学部、经济学部、理学部、医学部、齿学部、药学部、工学部与农学部，另设十六个研究科，以及法科大学院、公共政策大学院与会计大学院三个专门职大学院。

• As of 1 May 2025 it had 10,733 undergraduates including 205 international students, 4,273 master's and professional students including 683 international, and 2,969 doctoral students including 918 international, giving a total of 17,975 students and 1,806 international students截至 2025 年 5 月 1 日，学校有学部生 10,733 人（其中留学生 205 人）、大学院修士及专门职学生 4,273 人（留学生 683 人）、博士课程学生 2,969 人（留学生 918 人），合计在校生 17,975 人、留学生 1,806 人。

• It hosts six affiliated research institutes, namely the Institute for Materials Research, the Institute for Development, Aging and Cancer, the Institute of Fluid Science, the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, an institute of multidisciplinary research on advanced materials, and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, and it also runs two world premier institutes in materials research and marine ecosystem change.学校设有六个附置研究所，即材料研究所、发育障碍医学研究所、流体科学研究所、电气通信研究所、多物质综合研究所 以及防灾科学技术研究所，并运营材料与海洋生态系统变化两个世界顶级研究据点。

• Its strengths lie in materials science and spintronics, where it ranked first in Japan and third in the world, and in physics, where it ranked second in Japan and tenth in the world, with pharmacology and toxicology third in Japan and chemistry sixth in Japan according to Thomson Reuters学校的优势在于材料科学与自旋电子学，该领域在日本列第 1、世界列第 3；物理学历列日本第 2、世界第 10；药理与毒理居日本第 3，化学居日本第 6，以上为汤森路透口径。

• The university operates major facilities including the Research Center for Electron Photon Science at San Kamon, the Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, the Cryogenic Science Center, the Advanced Electron Microscopy Center and the NICHe centre for collaborative research with industry, which was running twenty joint research projects学校拥有三神峰电子光理学研究中心、回旋加速器与放射同位素中心、极低温科学中心、先端电子显微镜中心，以及与产业界共同研究的未来科学技术共同研究中心，当时有二十个联合研究项目在推进。

• As of 1 May 2025 it held university-level agreements with 242 institutions in 37 countries and faculty-level agreements with 476 institutions in 58 countries, together with nineteen liaison offices of the Inter-University Exchange Project in thirteen countries and two international joint laboratories截至 2025 年 5 月 1 日，学校与 37 个国家的 242 所机构签有校级协议，与 58 个国家的 476 所机构签有学级协议，另有国际交流项目在 13 个国家的 19 个联络处，以及 2 个国际联合实验室。

• It counts thirty endowed chairs and ten endowed research divisions, and its library system comprises five libraries, namely the main library, the medical branch, the engineering branch, the north Aobayama branch and the agriculture branch学校设有三十个捐赠讲席与十个捐赠研究部门；图书馆系统由五个馆构成，即本馆、医学分馆、工学分馆、北青叶山分馆与农学分馆。

• The university maintains thirty research divisions, an admission rate in which thirty per cent of entrants came in through the April admission route in 2024, and announced in 2023 that it would in principle move to making all admission selection by that route学校设有三十个捐赠研究部门；2024 年 1 月时点，通过 AO 入学入学者占全体入学者的 30%；学校并在 2023 年宣布，将来原则上将全面改为 AO 入学。

• Affiliated organisations include Tohoku University Hospital, shared by the faculties of medicine and dentistry, the Comprehensive Academic Museum and Archives, the botanical garden founded on the Aobayama campus in 1958, and the research centre for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant学校附属机构包括由医学部与齿学部共用的东北大学医院、综合学术博物馆与史料馆、1958 年在青叶山校区创设的植物园，以及福岛第一核电站废堆对策研究中心。

• In a 2021 survey by the Nikkei HR of personnel chiefs at 4,850 companies the university ranked third among 788 institutions nationwide on overall evaluation, and in 2009 it recorded the highest number of patent applications of any Japanese university, at 324在 2021 年日经 HR 对 4,850 家企业人事负责人的调查中，学校在 788 所机构的全国综合评价中列第 3；2009 年，学校以 324 件专利申请数居日本各大学之首。

• According to OpenAlex, scholars affiliated with Tohoku University have published more than 305,000 works that have attracted over 19 million citations.据 OpenAlex 数据，与东北大学相关的学者已发表成果逾 30.5 万篇，累计被引超过 1,900 万次。

Campus

• The Katahira campus in the centre of Sendai, where the headquarters and most research institutes stand, covers 229,613 square metres, and it preserves thirteen buildings registered as Important Cultural Properties, the largest number of any national university, most of them now used as archives位于仙台市中心的片平校区是学校本部与多数研究所所在地，占地 229,613 平方米；校区内保有十三栋登记为日本「登录有形文化财」的建筑，为国立大学之最，多数现用作资料馆。

• The university operates four main campuses, Katahira, Kawauchi, Aobayama and Seiryo, with the Seiryo campus of 179,214 square metres housing the faculties of medicine and dentistry together with Tohoku University Hospital学校运营四个主要校区，即片平、川内、青叶山与星陵，其中星陵校区占地 179,214 平方米，医学部、齿学部与东北大学医院均在此。

• The old Amamiya campus, which the faculties vacated in April 2017, has been sold to Aeon Mall and redeveloped into a hospital, housing and commercial facilities, and the university holds a Hirai satellite campus in Edogawa ward, Tokyo, for students of the professional school of accounting旧雨宫校区已于 2017 年 4 月腾空，后售予 Aeon Mall 并再开发为医院、住宅与商业设施；学校另在东京江户川区设有平井卫星校区，供会计大学院学生使用。

• The Aobayama station on the Sendai municipal subway Tozai line opened in 2015 inside the new campus and the Kawauchi station lies underground beneath the north gate of the Kawauchi campus, and a covered walkway links the International Center to the Kawauchi Memorial Hall仙台市营地铁东西线的青叶山站于 2015 年启用，位于新校区之内；川内站则位于川内北校区北门地下；国际中心与川内记念讲堂之间建有连络步道。

• The Tohoku University Botanical Garden was founded on the Aobayama campus in 1958 and preserves four hundred year old primeval forest, which gave it scholarly value, and in 1972 it was designated a Natural Monument, the first such designation among the national university botanical gardens in Japan东北大学植物园于 1958 年在青叶山校区创设，因保存四百年原生林而具学术价值，并于 1972 年被指定为天然纪念物，在日本国立大学植物园中属首例。

• The Tohoku University Memorial Hall, known as the Kawauchi Hall of the Hagi, was created in October 2008 by converting the Kawauchi Memorial Hall and the Panasonic Hall, and the Aobayama station of the subway line serves the new campus directly东北大学百年记念会馆（通称「川内萩厅」）于 2008 年 10 月由东北大学记念讲堂与松下会馆改修而成，地铁青叶山站则直接服务新校区。

• Relocation to consolidate the campuses has been a long-running issue, since in April 2003 the university reached an agreement with Miyagi Prefecture and the Sendai Golf Club, but the collapse in land values left the university short of funds after the old Amamiya site was sold to Aeon Mall and the southern part of Katahira was sold to Tohoku Gakuin University校区整合由来已久：学校于 2003 年 4 月与宫城县、仙台高尔夫球俱楽部达成和解推进搬迁，但随着旧雨宫地块售予 Aeon Mall、片平校区南部售予东北学院大学，土地估值较泡沫时期大幅下滑，搬迁资金筹措成为难题。

Reputation

• The university placed 102nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.4, a rise of seven places on the 2026 edition in which it stood 109th, and it moved from 113th in the 2024 edition学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第一百零二名，总分 68.4 分，较 2026 年的第一百零九名上升七位，而在 2024 年版中为第一百一十三名。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2027 placed it joint 106th with an overall score of 66.3 and a perfect industry income score of 100.0, and the 2026 edition had it 103rd, third in Japan after Tokyo and Kyoto在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中，学校并列第一百零六位，总分 66.3 分，其中产业收入项获满分 100.0；2026 年版列第一百零三位，在日本居东京大学与京都大学之后的第三位。

• It ranked first in Japan in the Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025, a table based entirely on teaching, resources, student outcomes, environment and value for money, and in the Nature Index institutional ranking of 2023 it was fourth in Japan at ninetieth in the world在完全基于教学、资源、教育成果、环境与投入产出比重的泰晤士高等教育日本大学排名中，学校于 2020、2021、2022、2023 与 2025 年均列日本第一；在 2023 年自然指数机构排名中，学校居日本第 4、全球第 90。

• The Times Higher Education subject tables placed it third in Japan for social sciences in 2022, and the Shanghai Ranking of Academic Resources placed it twelfth worldwide for metallurgical engineering in 2025在泰晤士高等教育 2022 年学科榜中，学校的社会科学列日本第 3；软科 2025 年中国学术评级中，其冶金工程列全球第 12。

• The university's distinguished awards record includes its materials science work, which was ranked first in Japan and third in the world, and it recorded the highest number of patent applications among Japanese universities in 2009 with 324 filings.学校的科研硬荣誉以其材料科学成就为代表，该领域在日本列第 1、世界列第 3；2009 年学校以 324 件申请数居日本各大学专利受理量之首。

• In Japan's domestic standings it is consistently placed in the leading group, ranking third in Japan in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2026 and fifth in Japan in the QS World University Rankings of 2026在国内位次上，学校稳定处于第一梯队：泰晤士高等教育 2026 年世界大学排名中列日本第 3，QS 2026 年世界大学排名中列日本第 5。

• According to OpenAlex, the scholars of the university have published more than 305,000 works that have drawn over 19 million citations, and its plant science and materials institutes are recognised as world premier institutes by the university据 OpenAlex 数据，学校学者已发表成果逾 30.5 万篇，累计被引超过 1,900 万次；其植物科学与材料相关研究所亦被学校列为世界顶级研究据点。

• The university holds the distinction of being the first Japanese institution to be recognised as an International Institute of Excellence, a status awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on 8 November 2024学校拥有一项独特地位：它是由文部科学省于 2024 年 11 月 8 日认定的日本第一所「国际卓越研究大学」。

Student life

• The university has no official school song or student song, an absence that is often misreported, and in its place it has a student song and an alumni song, with the student song Aoba mo yuru kono Michinoku, written by Noda Hide with music by Azakami Takeshi, chosen in 1953 from three submitted lyrics and the only one still sung学校没有正式的校歌与学歌——这是常被误传的一点；取而代之的是学生歌与校友歌，学生歌《青叶也缓此三陆》由野田秀作词、阿座上竹四作曲，1953 年在三首征集歌词中列第一位，也是至今唯一仍在传唱的一首。

• The alumni song Midori no Oka, written and composed by Kazumasa Oda in 2011 at the request of then-president Susumu Satomi to encourage graduates, students and staff working for the recovery from the earthquake, is published with its lyrics and score on the university's website校友歌《绿之丘》由小田和正作词作曲，他于 2011 年应时任总长里见进的请求创作，以鼓励为震后复兴奔走的毕业生、在校生与教职员；学校官网提供该曲歌词与乐谱阅览。

• In place of a motto, the university has three principles stated officially, research first, open doors and respect for practical learning, the first of which has been used as its slogan since Kotarō Honda's presidency学校没有校训，而是提出三大官方理念：研究第一、门户开放与实学尊重；其中「研究第一」自本多光太郎任总长以来即被用作学校的标语。

• Its foundation day is 22 June, the date of the 1907 imperial edict, and the centenary of the founding was marked in 2007, the year in which the university also adopted an official logo and official colours of purple and black, the purple standing for intellect and imagination and the black for diligence and practical effort学校的创立纪念日是 6 月 22 日，即 1907 年敕令公布之日；2007 年迎来创立一百周年，并在这一年制定了官方标志与官方色——紫与黑，紫色代表知性与想像力，黑色代表勤勉与实践力。

• Tohoku University Festival, held on three consecutive days in October or November and staged on the Kawauchi north campus, drew between thirty thousand and forty thousand visitors before the pandemic, and the university's rowing club, traceable to the water sports club of the old Second High School in 1895, represented Japan in the men's eight at the 1960 Rome Olympics东北大学祭每年 10 月或 11 月连续举办三天，以川内北校区为会场，疫情前入场者约三万至四万人；学校赛艇部可溯至 1895 年旧制二高水上运动部，并于 1960 年以学生男子八人队代表日本出战罗马奥运会。

• The Windnauts team, which competes in the distance category of the televised Birdman Contest organised by the Asahi Television network, has won the event six times as of 2015 and holds the competition record朝日电视台主办电视「鸟人比赛」距离机部门的东北大学 Windnauts 队，截至 2015 年已六度夺冠，并保有该赛事的最高纪录。

• The base ball club competes in the Sendai Six Universities Baseball League and the long-distance track team is a regular participant in the All Japan University Ekiden, appearing more often than any other university in the Tohoku region学校硬式野球部加盟仙台六大学野球联盟，长距离接力队则是全日本大学驿传的常客，在东北地区出场次数最多的学校。

• Its alumni association, the Hagi Tomokai, was established in 2007 as the Tohoku University alumni association to mark the centenary and was renamed in 2009, and its members receive discounts on tickets for the Tohoku Golden Eagles baseball games in Sendai学校校友会「萩友会」于 2007 年以东北大学校友会的名义设立以迎接创立一百周年，2009 年改称今名；会员购买仙台东北金色雄鹰棒球队主场比赛门票可享优惠。

• The Katahira campus, which the university describes as a place for exchange with citizens, is situated in central Sendai and each spring draws large numbers of visitors for the cherry blossoms, with the former Amamiya and the Seiryo campuses also lying within the city片平校区被学校定位为「与市民交流的场所」，位于仙台市中心，每到春季樱花季便有大量市民前来；旧雨宫校区与星陵校区同样位于仙台市内。

Notable people

• Masataro Sawayanagi, a former vice-minister of the Ministry of Education who took part in creating Tohoku Imperial University, became its first president in 1911, and Hantarō Nagaoka, the leading Japanese scientist of his day, was commissioned to choose the first professors and led the group sent to Europe in 1907泽柳政太郎曾任文部省次官并参与创建东北帝国大学，1911 年出任首任总长；而长冈半太郎是当时日本最负盛名的科学家，受文部省委托挑选首批教授人选，并于 1907 年率团赴欧。

• Shosuke Sato, principal of Sapporo Agricultural School, became the first dean of the college of agriculture of Tohoku Imperial University in September 1907 and served as acting president until the end of 1910, and Kotarō Honda, known as the father of steel, was the sixth president of the university from 1931札幌农学校校长佐藤昌介于 1907 年 9 月出任东北帝国大学农科大学首任学长，并代行总长职务至 1910 年末；被称为「钢铁之父」的本多光太郎则于 1931 年出任第六任总长。

• Chen Jiangong, who completed his studies at Tohoku Imperial University, was the first foreign student ever to earn a doctorate in Japan, and Su Buqing, who followed him, was the second, later serving as president of Fudan University在东北帝国大学求学的陈建功是第一位取得博士学位的外国留学生，继他之后获得博士学位的苏步青是第二位，后者曾任复旦大学校长。

• Leo Esaki, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever for their experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at the time of the award, so he should not be described as a Nobel-winning faculty member of this university on that basis alone江崎玲於奈与伊瓦尔·贾埃弗因分别在半导体与超导体中隧穿现象的实验发现，分享 1973 年诺贝尔物理学奖；获奖时他供职于 IBM 托马斯·沃森研究中心，因此不能仅据此把他称作东北大学的诺奖教职得主。

• Seisaburo Mogi, who graduated from the university, became a professor at Columbia University and pioneered research on maggot therapy, the treatment of wounds with living larvae茅诚三郎毕业于东北大学，后任哥伦比亚大学教授，是用活体幼虫处理伤口这一「蛆疗法」研究的先驱。

• Susumu Satomi served as president of the university and commissioned Kazumasa Oda to write the alumni song Midori no Oka in 2011 in support of recovery from the earthquake里见进曾任东北大学总长，2011 年他委托小田和正创作校友歌《绿之丘》，以支持震后复兴。

• Emiko Okuyama served as mayor of Sendai from 2009 to 2017, and Soshirō Miyashita has served as governor of Aomori Prefecture, both of whom are counted among the university's prominent political figures大隈英子于 2009 年至 2017 年担任仙台市市长，宫下盛志曾任青森县知事，两人都是学校引以为傲的政界人物。

• The university's presidential line has included Kotarō Honda, whose sixth presidency in 1931 introduced the phrase research first that still frames the university's identity学校历任总长中，本多光太郎居于重要位置，他 1931 年出任第六任总长时提出的「研究第一」至今仍框定着学校的身份认同。

• The botanical garden founded in 1958 and the six affiliated research institutes reflect an institutional emphasis on the natural sciences that was already visible when the college of agriculture was incorporated in the first year of the university's existence1958 年创设的植物园与六个附置研究所，反映出学校对自然科学的一贯重视；这种取向在公司成立第一年农科大学并入时便已显现。