Tokai University

Tokai University (Tōkai Daigaku) is a private, non-sectarian university headquartered in Tomigaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, with its principal campus in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.东海大学（Tokai University，日文「東海大学」）是一所私立、非宗教性大学，校本部位于东京都涩谷区富谷，主校区位于神奈川县平塚市。

It was founded in 1942 by the engineer and educator Shigeyoshi Matsumae, opened an aeronautical science college in 1943, became an old-system university in 1946 and was reorganised as a four-year university under the postwar system in 1950.该校由工程师兼教育家松前重义于1942年创办，1943年开设航空科学专门学校，1946年升格为旧制大学，1950年依战后新学制改组为四年制大学。

Tokai is among Japan's largest private universities, with roughly 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 1,653 faculty members as of 2017, and it appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.东海大学是日本规模最大的私立大学之一，2017年约有3万名本科生与研究生、1653名专任教师，并在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列1401+并列区间。

History

• The institutional lineage began in 1936, when Matsumae opened the Bosei Seminar in Musashino, western Tokyo, modelled on the Danish folk high school tradition that he had studied during a visit to Denmark in 1934.该校的源流可追溯至1936年，松前重义在东京都西部的武藏野开设望星学塾，其办学模式取自他1934年赴丹麦考察的民众高等学校传统。
• On 14 October 1937 the Foundation for Telecommunications Engineering School was established, and its three telecommunications schools opened a week later as training institutions for engineers in Japan's expanding communications industry.1937年10月14日，财团法人通信工学园成立，其下属三所通信学校于一周后开学，为日本不断扩张的通信产业培养工程师。
• In December 1942 the Foundation for National Defense Science and Technology was created, and on 8 April 1943 it opened the Aerial Science College in Miho, Shimizu, Shizuoka, the institution usually treated as the direct forerunner of the university.1942年12月，财团法人国防理工学园成立，并于1943年4月8日在静冈县清水市三保开设航空科学专门学校，该校通常被视为东海大学的直接前身。
• Two further wartime bodies, the Radio Wave Technology Development Institute and the Radio Science College, were added in February and April 1944 as the foundation expanded its electronics teaching.1944年2月与4月，财团又相继设立电波技术开发研究所与电波科学专门学校，进一步扩展电子学教育。
• At the end of the war the foundation was renamed Tokai Gakuen on 15 August 1945, and the three establishments were merged into Tokai Vocational School, which became Tokai Science Vocational School on 20 October 1945.战争结束时，财团于1945年8月15日改称东海学园，三所教育机构合并为东海专门学校，并于1945年10月20日改称东海科学专门学校。
• Under the old university ordinance the institution was elevated to Tokai University on 1 May 1946, offering three-year degrees at a time when most Japanese universities were still recovering from the war.依旧制大学令，该校于1946年5月1日升格为东海大学，在当时多数日本大学尚处战后恢复期之际提供三年制学位教育。
• The 1947 School Education Law replaced the old system, and in April 1950 Tokai reopened as a four-year university with a Faculty of Engineering, the first of its modern faculties.1947年《学校教育法》取代旧学制，东海大学于1950年4月以四年制大学重新起步，首设工学部，这也是该校现代学部体系的开端。
• A financial crisis in the early 1950s was resolved in 1955 through a merger with Meikyo Gakuen, which also moved the headquarters to Tomigaya in Shibuya, where it remains.1950年代初的财政危机促使学校于1955年与名教学园合并，校本部也随之迁至涩谷区富谷并沿用至今。
• Matsumae, who had helped shape the 1955 Atomic Energy Basic Law, created a nuclear engineering programme in the Faculty of Engineering in 1956, the first such course at a Japanese university.曾参与推动1955年《原子能基本法》制定的松前重义，于1956年在工学部设立原子力工学专业，为日本大学中的首个核工程教育项目。
• The engineering faculty also spawned FM Tokai, which began broadcasting in 1960 after a licence application filed in June 1957 and later became the commercial station TOKYO FM.工学部还孕育了FM东海，该台在1957年6月递交执照申请后于1960年开播，后来发展为商业电台TOKYO FM。
• In 1961 the university took over the Shimizu site of the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine when that institution moved to Tokyo, establishing the Shimizu campus for marine studies.1961年，东京商船大学迁往东京，东海大学接收其清水校址，设立以海洋学科为主的清水校区。
• Tokai opened a junior-college campus at Takanawa in 1963 and added a department of martial arts (budō) to its physical education faculty in April 1968.东海大学1963年在高轮开设短期大学部校区，并于1968年4月在体育学部增设武道学科。
• The system expanded west and north with the founding of Kyushu Tokai University, whose Aso campus opened in 1973, and Hokkaido Tokai University, established in 1977.学校体系向西部与北部扩张，九州东海大学于1973年开设阿苏校区，北海道东海大学则于1977年成立。
• Legal studies were institutionalised through the Law Research Institute in 1982, and a full Faculty of Law opened at the Shonan campus in April 1986.法学研究于1982年通过法学研究所实现建制化，1986年4月湘南校区正式设立法学部。
• A Faculty of Health Sciences was created in 1995, reflecting the university's growing focus on nursing, rehabilitation and sport science.1995年，东海大学成立健康科学部，反映其在护理、康复与运动科学领域日益增强的投入。
• In 2006 Tokai launched Japan's first university-level professional pilot training course, run with All Nippon Airways and including flight training at the University of North Dakota.2006年，东海大学开设日本首个大学层次的职业飞行员培养课程，与全日空合作，并安排学生赴北达科他大学进行飞行训练。
• On 1 April 2008 Kyushu Tokai University, Hokkaido Tokai University and the Takanawa junior college were reabsorbed into Tokai University, creating today's multi-campus structure.2008年4月1日，九州东海大学、北海道东海大学与高轮短期大学部并入东海大学，形成今日的多校区格局。
• Also in 2008 the university's industry-academia collaboration centre was approved as a technology licensing organisation, formalising its patent and spin-off work.同年，东海大学产学合作中心获批为技术转移机构，使其专利与衍生企业工作正式制度化。
• The Great Kumamoto Earthquake of April 2016 damaged the Aso campus, killed three students in collapsed apartments and forced the Faculty of Agriculture to teach at the Kumamoto campus.2016年4月的熊本大地震损毁阿苏校区，3名学生在倒塌公寓中遇难，农学部被迫移至熊本校区授课。
• After rebuilding, the university opened the Aso Kumamoto Airport campus in April 2023 on the site of its Space Information Center, and moved the Faculty of Tourism to Shinagawa in 2024.灾后重建后，东海大学于2023年4月在宇宙信息中心原址开设阿苏熊本机场校区，并于2024年将观光学部迁至品川校区。
• In 2017, its 75th anniversary, the university adopted the slogan "Think Ahead, Act for Humanity", combining the 2005 phrase "Be a pioneer" with a new English commitment.2017年建校75周年之际，学校启用口号「Think Ahead，Act for Humanity」，将2005年提出的「先駆けであること」与新英文表述结合。

Academics

• Tokai currently lists 30 faculties and 17 graduate schools, making it one of the broadest private universities in Japan, with programmes ranging from humanities and law to medicine and oceanography.东海大学目前设有30个学部与17个研究生院，是日本学科门类最齐全的私立大学之一，覆盖人文、法学、医学与海洋学等领域。
• Undergraduate study is organised into faculties including Letters, Culture and Sociology, Law, Political Science and Economics, Business, Tourism, International Studies, Science, Information Science and Technology, Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design, Medicine, Health, Oceanography, Agriculture, Biology and Physical Education.本科学部包括文学、文化社会学、法学、政治经济学、经营、观光、国际、理学、信息理工、工学、建筑都市、医学、健康、海洋、农学、生物学与体育等。
• Its 17 graduate schools award master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, medicine, health, law, economics, letters, oceanography, agriculture and interdisciplinary science and technology.17个研究生院在工学、理学、医学、健康科学、法学、经济学、文学、海洋学、农学与综合理工学等领域授予硕士与博士学位。
• The Faculty of Engineering, created with the new-system university in 1950, introduced Japan's first nuclear engineering course in 1956 and later added aerospace engineering and a pilot-training major.工学部随1950年新制大学一同设立，1956年开设日本首个核工程课程，此后又增设航空航天工学与飞行员培养专业。
• The School of Medicine is based at Isehara and operates Tokai University Hospital, while a nursing department was added to the school in 2018 after the health faculty was reorganised.医学部设在伊势原校区并运营东海大学医院，2018年健康学部改组后，医学部又增设护理学科。
• Marine science and technology are taught at Shimizu, where the faculty maintains training vessels and the Museum of the School of Marine Science and Technology, an aquarium open to the public.海洋科学与技术教学设在清水校区，该学部拥有实习船，并附设向公众开放的海洋科学博物馆水族馆。
• The Faculty of Agriculture, long associated with the Aso campus, moved its teaching to Kumamoto after the 2016 earthquake and now uses the Aso Kumamoto Airport campus and field stations.农学部长期以阿苏校区为基地，2016年地震后将教学迁至熊本校区，现使用阿苏熊本机场校区与野外实习站。
• Tokai's Faculty of Letters houses the Ancient Egypt and Near East Collection (AENET), which runs Japan's first papyrus restoration workshop and publishes its holdings online.东海大学文学部设有古代埃及与近东藏品（AENET），开办日本首个纸莎草文献修复工作坊，并将馆藏在网上公开。
• Research is organised through bodies such as the Creative Science and Technology Research Organization, the Ocean Research Laboratory, the Advanced Life Science Institute and the Space Information Center.科研工作由创造科学技术研究机构、海洋研究所、先端生命科学研究所与宇宙信息中心等平台组织。
• The university employed 1,653 faculty members in 2017, giving a student-to-faculty ratio below 30 to 1 across its undergraduate and graduate programmes.2017年该校共有1653名专任教师，本硕博各层次合计的师生比低于30比1。
• About 775 of its roughly 30,000 students were international in 2017, and the university runs exchange arrangements with universities in Asia, Europe and North America.2017年，在约3万名学生中有775名国际学生，学校与亚洲、欧洲及北美多所大学建立了交换合作。
• Masatoshi Koshiba, who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, taught at Tokai from 1987 to 1997, and the Faculty of Science has continued to emphasise physics, chemistry and information mathematics.2002年诺贝尔物理学奖得主小柴昌俊于1987年至1997年在东海大学任教，理学部至今仍以物理、化学与信息数理为重点。
• The Faculty of Information and Communication emerged from the Takanawa junior college and focuses on information networks, media and embedded systems.信息通信学部由高轮短期大学部改组而来，聚焦信息网络、媒体与嵌入式系统。
• Tokai operates more than a dozen affiliated high schools, including Sagami, Urayasu, Takanawadai, Shoyo, Sapporo and Kumamoto Seisho, together with affiliated primary schools and kindergartens.东海大学运营十余所附属高中，包括相模、浦安、高轮台、翔洋、札幌与熊本星翔，并附设小学与幼儿园。
• Tokai University Press publishes academic monographs, while the campus newspaper Tokai Newspress and the university's sports publications document student life.东海大学出版社出版学术专著，校园报纸《Tokai Newspress》与校方体育刊物则记录学生生活。
• Professional graduate programmes include a law school for practical legal studies and a graduate school of embedded technology, alongside the research-oriented master's and doctoral courses.专业研究生教育包括实务法学研究科与嵌入式技术研究科，与研究型硕士、博士课程并行。
• The Faculty of Physical Education, established to pursue "scientific sport", runs one of Japan's largest university sports complexes and has supplied many Olympic judo and volleyball athletes.体育学部以「科学化的体育」为宗旨，拥有日本规模最大的大学体育设施之一，培养了众多奥运柔道与排球运动员。
• Tokai's space programme supplied a magnet sensor for the Hisaki scientific satellite launched in 2013, and student teams have since designed and tested micro-satellites of their own.东海大学的太空项目为2013年发射的「辉」号科学卫星提供磁强计，学生团队此后亦自行设计并测试微型卫星。

Campus

• The main Shonan campus occupies a large site at 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, about 60 kilometres southwest of central Tokyo and close to the Sagami River and the Shonan coast.主校区湘南校区位于神奈川县平塚市北金目4丁目1番1号，占地广阔，距东京市中心约60公里，邻近相模川与湘南海岸。
• Tokai maintains eight campuses, at Shonan, Shibuya, Shinagawa, Isehara, Shimizu, Kumamoto, Sapporo and Aso Kumamoto Airport, spread from Hokkaido to Kyushu.东海大学设有八个校区，分别为湘南、涩谷、品川、伊势原、清水、熊本、札幌与阿苏熊本机场，分布自北海道延伸至九州。
• The Shonan campus contains the Matsumae Commemoration Hall, Matsumae Hall, the International Hall for overseas students and extensive athletics grounds used by the physical education faculty.湘南校区内设松前纪念会馆、松前会馆、面向留学生的国际会馆，以及供体育学部使用的大型运动场。
• The Isehara campus in western Kanagawa is the medical centre of the university, combining the School of Medicine, the nursing department and Tokai University Hospital.位于神奈川县西部的伊势原校区是该校医学中心，集中了医学部、护理学科与东海大学医院。
• Shimizu campus in Shizuoka Prefecture faces Suruga Bay and includes the marine science museum and aquarium, training ships and laboratories for oceanography and fisheries.静冈县清水校区面向骏河湾，设有海洋科学博物馆水族馆、实习船以及海洋学与水产实验室。
• In Kyushu the Kumamoto campus hosts the Faculty of Agriculture and the Space Information Center, while the Aso campus, opened in 1973, was replaced by the Aso Kumamoto Airport campus in 2023 after earthquake damage.在九州，熊本校区承载农学部与宇宙信息中心；1973年启用的阿苏校区因地震受损，于2023年由阿苏熊本机场校区取代。
• The Sapporo campus in Minami-ku, Hokkaido, includes an International House, and the Tokyo presence is completed by the Tomigaya headquarters and the Shinagawa campus, which received the Faculty of Tourism in 2024.北海道札幌市南区的札幌校区设有国际宿舍，东京方面则由富谷校本部与2024年接纳观光学部的品川校区构成。
• The university also ran a boarding school in Denmark, now closed, and maintains training facilities at Yamanakako, Tsumagoi and Miho for sports, seminars and marine practice, and a ski cottage at Jozankei.该校还曾在丹麦开办寄宿学校（现已关闭），并在山中湖、嬬恋与三保保有运动、研讨与海洋实习设施，以及定山溪的滑雪小屋。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Tokai University is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final segment shared by 102 institutions worldwide.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，东海大学位列1401+并列区间，该区间为全球102所高校共享的末段开放区间。
• U.S. News & World Report ranked Tokai 1,246th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, one of several Japanese private universities in the ranking.在2026-2027年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学榜单中，东海大学位列第1246名，是入选的日本私立大学之一。
• Tokai did not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and it was not included in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.东海大学未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• In the 2018 THE subject ranking for clinical, pre-clinical and health, Tokai was placed in the 401-500 band, one of 26 Japanese universities listed that year.在2018年泰晤士高等教育临床、临床前与健康学科排名中，东海大学位于401-500区间，是当年上榜的26所日本大学之一。
• Between 1994 and 2004 Tokai filed 519 patent applications, more than Nihon University (390), Waseda (358), Tokyo Institute of Technology (338) and Nagoya University (324).1994年至2004年间，东海大学提交了519件专利申请，超过日本大学（390件）、早稻田大学（358件）、东京工业大学（338件）与名古屋大学（324件）。
• By 2004 the university had recorded 278 joint industry ventures, 15th among Japanese universities, and 211 commissioned research projects, 12th nationally.截至2004年，该校累计开展278项产学合作项目，在日本大学中排名第15，并承接211项委托研究，排名全国第12。
• Its 2008 technology licensing approval and its industry-academia collaboration centre underpin a research profile concentrated in engineering, medicine, marine science and space technology. Research centres include the Civilization Laboratory, the Ocean Research Laboratory and the Okinawa Area Studies Center.2008年获得的技术转移机构资质与产学合作中心，支撑起以工学、医学、海洋科学与空间技术为主的研究格局；研究机构包括文明研究所、海洋研究所与冲绳地区研究中心。
• Tokai is a member of the Tokyo 12 Universities, a public-relations consortium formed in 1964 that also includes Keio, Waseda, Sophia, Meiji, Aoyama Gakuin and Chuo.东海大学是1964年成立的「东京12大学」成员，该联合体还包括庆应义塾、早稻田、上智、明治、青山学院与中央大学。
• Its reputation in sport is unusually strong for a comprehensive private university, built on Olympic judo medals, the 2008 Le Mans entry and the 2009 World Solar Challenge victory.作为综合性私立大学，该校体育声誉尤为突出，依托奥运柔道奖牌、2008年勒芒参赛与2009年世界太阳能车挑战赛夺冠。

Student life

• The university's educational motto is "fusion of humanities and sciences" (文理融合), and since 2017 its public slogan has been "Think Ahead, Act for Humanity".该校的教育理念为「文理融合」，自2017年起对外口号为「Think Ahead，Act for Humanity」。
• The school flag carries a cross whose horizontal white line stands for love and whose vertical line stands for justice, with seven background colours representing the seven levels of the Tokai school system.校旗以十字为标志，横线象征爱、纵线象征正义，七种底色则对应东海学园从幼儿园到研究生院的七个教育阶段。
• The founding song "Kengaku no Uta" was written by Matsumae in May 1943 while he was ill, and a new school song composed by his son Norio Matsumae was adopted when the university moved to Tokyo in 1955.建学歌《建学の歌》由松前重义于1943年5月卧病期间作词，1955年迁校东京时又采用了其子松前纪男作曲的新校歌。
• The mascot "Ricky" was unveiled in design in September 2010 and named in November 2010, representing the four strengths the university wants students to develop.吉祥物「Ricky」于2010年9月公布设计、同年11月定名，象征学校希望学生培养的四种能力。
• The Tokai University Student Rocket Project, founded in 1995 by the aerospace engineering department, launches hybrid rockets in Akita and Hokkaido and has worked with the University of Alaska.东海大学学生火箭项目由航空航天工学科于1995年创立，在秋田与北海道发射混合动力火箭，并与阿拉斯加大学合作。
• The Tokai Challenger solar car, designed with Japanese automotive companies, covered 3,021 kilometres in 29 hours 49 minutes at an average of 100.54 km/h to win the 2009 World Solar Challenge.东海挑战者号太阳能车与日本汽车企业合作设计，在2009年世界太阳能车挑战赛中以29小时49分、平均时速100.54公里跑完3021公里并夺冠。
• In 2008 a student team entered a Courage-Oreca LC70 in the Le Mans 24 Hours, the first university entry in the race's history, completing 185 laps before retiring with gearbox trouble.2008年，一支学生车队以Courage-Oreca LC70赛车参加勒芒24小时耐力赛，成为赛事历史上首支大学参赛队，在完成185圈后因变速箱故障退赛。
• Campus media include the newspaper Tokai Newspress and the Tokai Sports blog, which ran until January 2018, while the Shonan campus serves as the social hub for clubs and dormitory life.校园媒体包括报纸《Tokai Newspress》与运营至2018年1月的Tokai Sports博客，湘南校区则是社团与宿舍生活的社交中心。
• The Shonan campus's Matsumae Commemoration Hall and the Bosei Academic and Archive Center preserve the founder's papers and the records of the original Musashino seminar.湘南校区的松前纪念会馆与望星学术档案中心收藏创校人手稿及武藏野望星学塾的原始档案。

Notable people

• Shigeyoshi Matsumae (1901-1991), the founder and first president, was a communications engineer who invented a non-loaded cable system and served as Japan's Minister of Communications in 1945.松前重义（1901-1991）是创校人兼首任校长，身为通信工程师发明了无装荷电缆方式，并于1945年出任日本递信大臣。
• Masatoshi Koshiba, who received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for neutrino astronomy, was a professor at Tokai after his tenure at the University of Tokyo.因中微子天文学获得2002年诺贝尔物理学奖的小柴昌俊，在东京大学任教之后曾任东海大学教授。
• Yasuhiro Yamashita, the judoka who won the open-weight gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, built a record 203-match unbeaten streak and later led the Japanese Olympic Committee.柔道家山下泰裕在1984年洛杉矶奥运会获得无差别级金牌，曾创下203场不败纪录，后出任日本奥委会主席。
• Kosei Inoue won the under-100 kg judo gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and world titles in 1999 and 2001 before becoming a coach of the Japanese national team.井上康生在2000年悉尼奥运会夺得100公斤级柔道金牌，并于1999年与2001年两获世锦赛冠军，后担任日本国家队教练。
• Naohisa Takato won Olympic judo gold in the under-60 kg class at Rio 2016 and again at Tokyo 2020, becoming one of the university's most decorated athletes.高藤直寿在2016年里约奥运会与2020年东京奥运会两度夺得60公斤级柔道金牌，是该校荣誉最多的运动员之一。
• Mashu Baker took the under-90 kg judo gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and Maki Tsukada won the women's over-78 kg gold at Athens 2004.贝克尔在2016年里约奥运会获得90公斤级柔道金牌，塚田真希则在2004年雅典奥运会夺得女子78公斤以上级金牌。
• Tatsunori Hara, a former Yomiuri Giants infielder, managed the club to the 2009 Japan Series title and later returned for a second term as manager.原辰德曾是读卖巨人队内野手，执教期间率队夺得2009年日本大赛冠军，其后又再度出任球队监督。
• Eikō Harada served as president of McDonald's Japan, and Kenjiro Shinozuka became the first Japanese driver to win the Paris-Dakar Rally, in 1997.原田泳幸曾任日本麦当劳社长，篠塚建次郎则于1997年成为首位夺得巴黎-达喀尔拉力赛冠军的日本车手。
• Michael Leitch, a Japan national rugby union captain at the 2019 World Cup, and Yuki Kawamura, a basketball player who reached the NBA, are among its international-level alumni.2019年橄榄球世界杯日本队队长迈克尔·利奇，以及登陆NBA的篮球运动员河村勇辉，都是该校具有国际水准的校友。
• Shingo Suetsugu won a 200 metres bronze at the 2003 World Championships and held the Asian record of 20.03 seconds, while Toru Kamikawa refereed at the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.末续慎吾在2003年世锦赛获得200米铜牌并保持20秒03的亚洲纪录，上川彻则执法了2002年与2006年两届世界杯。