Tokyo University of Science

Tokyo University of Science, written 東京理科大学 in Japanese and called informally Rikadai, is a private research university centred on the Kagurazaka district of Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan, and it is placed in the 851-900 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.东京理科大学（日语写作 東京理科大学，通称「理科大」）是一所以理工为主的私立研究型大学，本部位于日本东京新宿区的乐岩濑一带，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入第 851-900 位。

The institution was founded in 1881 as the Tokyo Academy of Physics by twenty-one graduates of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo, and it attained full university status under its present name in 1949.该校 1881 年由东京帝国大学理学部物理学科的二十一名毕业生创设为「东京物理学讲习所」，并于 1949 年升格、改用现名成为大学。

Across five campuses, a Science and Technology Museum and roughly a hundred faculties, departments and graduate courses, it maintains an almost exclusive focus on the sciences, engineering, pharmacy, and management rather than on the humanities.该校设有五个校区、一座科学技术博物馆，以及约一百个学部、学科与研究生课程，其学科布局几乎专于理科、工科、药学与管理，而不设文科。

History

• Tokyo University of Science traces its foundation to 1881, when the Tokyo Academy of Physics was set up in Kanda, central Tokyo, out of a private physics-teaching initiative.东京理科大学的历史可追溯到 1881 年，当时东京物理学讲习所在东京市中心的神田设立，脱胎于一项民间物理教学事业。

• Its founders were twenty-one graduates of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo, who wanted a school where experimental physics could be taught directly to students.其创办者是东京帝国大学理学部物理学科的二十一名毕业生，他们希望兴办一所能向学生直接讲授实验物理的学校。

• In 1883 the academy was renamed the Tokyo College of Science, and Hisashi Terao was appointed to lead the institution as its first principal that same year.1883 年该校更名为「东京物理学校」，寺垣寿被任命为该校首任校长并主事。

• Hisashi Terao held the principalship from 1883 to 1896, and he was followed by Kiyoo Nakamura, who led the college for a long term from 1896 through 1930.寺垣寿自 1883 年至 1896 年担任校长，其后由中村清接任，主持校务长达 1896 年至 1930 年。

• Kyohei Nakamura served as principal from 1930 to 1934, and Masatoshi Okochi, himself a leading experimental physicist of cosmic-ray research, held the office from 1934 to 1945.中村良平于 1930 年至 1934 年任校长，其后黄坤武（Masatoshi Okochi）本人即宇宙线实验物理名家，于 1934 年至 1945 年主政。

• In 1945 Nakagoro Hirakawa became principal and oversaw the transition of the college into a degree-granting university in 1949 under the new post-war school system.1945 年平川中吾出任校长，并在战后学制下主持该校于 1949 年改制为可授予学位的大学。

• With the 1949 reform the Tokyo College of Science became the Tokyo University of Science, and Kotaro Honda, the metallurgist who later founded Tohoku's research school, took office as its first president.随着 1949 年改制，东京物理学校成为东京理科大学，冶金学家本多光太郎出任首任校长。

• Kotaro Honda served as president from 1949 to 1953, and a long line of successors then held the post, including Masaichi Majima from 1955 to 1966 and Seishi Kikuchi from 1966 to 1970.本多光太郎于 1949 年至 1953 年任校长，此后历任校长相继接掌，包括岛创一郎（1955-1966）与菊池诚（1966-1970）。

• Masao Kotani led the university from 1970 to 1982, and he was followed by Masao Yoshiki from 1982 to 1990 and by Tetsuji Nishikawa from 1990 to 2001, a stretch that grew its graduate schools.小野正文自 1970 年至 1982 年执掌该校，其后吉木昌雄（1982-1990）、西川哲次（1990-2001）相继任职，期间该校研究生院持续扩张。

• Hiroyuki Okamura served from 2002 to 2005 and Shin Takeuchi from 2006 to 2009, before Akira Fujishima, the scientist credited with discovering the photocatalytic effect of titanium dioxide, became president from 2010 to 2018.冈村裕之自 2002 年至 2005 年在任，竹内真自 2006 年至 2009 年在任，其后以发现二氧化钛光催化效应著称的藤嶋昭于 2010 年至 2018 年出任校长。

• Yoichiro Matsumoto has held the presidency since 2018, continuing the university's habit of choosing research-active physical scientists for its top academic office.松本洋一郎自 2018 年起担任校长，延续了该校推举活跃于科研的物理学者出任学术首长的惯例。

• Parallel to the presidency the university keeps a board of chairmen, a line that runs from Nakagoro Hirakawa through Takeyo Tsukamoto to Shigeru Nakane and, from 2015, to Kazuo Motoyama.与校长并立的还有一线董事长，从平川中吾经冢本武雄、中根茂，自 2015 年起由青山一男接任。

• The protagonist of the novelist Soseki Natsume's novel Botchan was modelled on a graduate trained at the physics school that preceded Tokyo University of Science, a literary link the campus still publicises.作家夏目漱石小说《少爷》的主人公，即以东京理科大学前身物理学校培养的学生为原型，校方至今仍宣扬这一文学渊源。

• In its early decades the college concentrated on mathematics, physics and chemistry, the three disciplines marked by the Japanese abbreviations S, B and K still used across its faculties today.在办学早期，该校专攻数学、物理与化学三科，至今仍以日语缩写 S、B、K 标示这三个学科。

• Engineering teaching followed the sciences, and the Faculty of Engineering grew departments in architecture, industrial chemistry, electrical engineering, information technology and mechanical engineering through the twentieth century.工程学科随后在理科之后兴起，工学部在二十世纪陆续设立建筑、工业化学、电气、信息技术与机械等学系。

• A pharmacy faculty was added with a six-year Department of Pharmacy and a four-year Department of Medicinal and Life Sciences, giving the university a professional route into pharmaceutical education.药学部随后设立六年制药学系与四年医药与生命科学学系，使该校取得进入药学专业教育的通道。

• In 1965 the university opened its Noda campus in Chiba prefecture, a science-and-technology site that later hosted faculties of science and technology and of advanced engineering.1965 年该校在千叶县野田开设校区，此处的理工学地后来容纳理工学部与先端工学部。

• Further campuses followed, and the university established its School of Management, its Faculty of Advanced Engineering, and its Faculty of Information Science and Technology to broaden its applied-science range.此后校区继续扩张，该校又设立经营学部、先端工学部以及情报理工学部，以拓宽其应用理科版图。

• On 22 November 2017 the university launched TSUBAME, a small Earth-observation satellite built by students and staff at its Kagurazaka campus.2017 年 11 月 22 日，该校由乐岩濑校区的师生研制并发射了微型对地观测卫星「TSUBAME」。

• As of 2016 Tokyo University of Science had signed academic exchange agreements with 75 overseas universities and research institutions, including department-to-department links.截至 2016 年，东京理科大学已与 75 所海外大学及研究机构签订学术交流协议，其中包含院系对院系的直接合作。

• The campus estate reached its present scale as the university extended from its Kanda origins to Kagurazaka and then to sites in Chiyoda, Katsushika, Chiba and Hokkaido.该校校园从神田起源扩展到乐岩濑，再延伸至千代田、葛饰、千叶与北海道，形成今日格局。

• Two private universities later became affiliated schools of the group, extending the Tokyo University of Science name beyond the metropolitan region.其后两所私立大学成为该校集团的姊妹学校，把东京理科大学之名延伸到首都圈之外。

Academics

• Undergraduate teaching is organised into eight faculties, among them Science Division I, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science and Technology, Information Science and Technology, Advanced Engineering and the School of Management.本科教学分为八个学部，包括第一理学部、工学部、药学部、理工学部、情报理工学部、先端工学部以及经营学部等。

• Science Division I keeps the founding core of mathematics, physics and chemistry, plus applied versions of all three, and a Department of Science Communication opened a new route into public understanding of research.第一理学部保留数学、物理、化学的创始核心及其三个应用方向，另设科学传播学系，为科研公众传播开辟新路径。

• The Faculty of Engineering carries departments of architecture, industrial chemistry, electrical engineering, information and computer technology, and mechanical engineering, each with its own English-based abbreviation.工学部下设建筑、工业化学、电气、信息与计算机技术、机械等学系，每个学系都有基于英文名称的缩写代号。

• Science and Technology is the largest division, with departments running from astronomy and information science to architecture, aerospace engineering, civil engineering and industrial and systems engineering.理工学部是规模最大的一分部，其学系从天文与情报科学一直涵盖建筑、航空航天、土木以及工业与系统工程。

• Advanced Engineering adds applied electronics, material science, biological science and technology, applied physics, and a department of medical and robotic engineering design.先端工学部增设应用电子、材料科学、生物科学技术、应用物理，以及医疗与机器人工程设计学系。

• The School of Management offers programmes in management, business economics, and international design management, an unusual pairing of business and design within a science university.经营学部开设经营管理、商业经济与国际化设计管理课程，在一所理工类大学中形成商业与设计的独特组合。

• Graduate education runs through seven graduate schools, covering science, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, science and technology, advanced engineering, management, and biological sciences.研究生教育由七所研究生院承担，涵盖理学、工学、药学、理工学、先端工学、经营学与生命科学。

• The Graduate School of Science and Technology adds a Department of Global Fire Science and Technology, reflecting a specialty in fire research that few universities maintain.理工学研究科另设全球消防科学与技术学系，反映该校消防研究这一少数大学才保持的特色专长。

• The Graduate School of Management offers a Department of Management of Technology, an MOT programme aimed at engineers who move into industrial leadership roles.经营学研究科设有技术管理学系，即面向转任产业领导岗位工程师的技术管理（MOT）课程。

• Research institutes include the Research Institute for Science and Technology and the Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, the latter divided into immunobiology, molecular biology, biosignaling and pathology groups.研究机构包括科学技术研究所与生物医学科学研究所，后者细分为免疫生物学、分子生物学、生物信号与病理学等组群。

• Named research centers span the Center for Fire Science and Technology, the IR FEL Research Center, the Research Center for Chirality, and the Photocatalysis International Research Center.具名研究中心包括消防科学与技术研究中心、红外自由电子激光研究中心、手性研究中心以及光催化国际研究中心。

• The Translational Research Center, the Imaging Frontier Center, the Water Frontier Science and Technology Research Center and the Research Center for Space Colony extend the university into applied medical, environmental and aerospace programmes.转化研究中心、成像前沿中心、水前沿科学技术研究中心以及太空殖民地研究中心，把该校延伸到应用医学、环境与航天方向。

• The School of Management is ranked by Eduniversal as the second best business school in Japan on the criterion of significant international influence.据 Eduniversal 排名，经营学部按国际影响力指标位列全日本第二优秀的商学院。

• Faculty and students are supported by a University Research Administration Center that plans research strategy, industry collaboration and regional alliance and commercialization.大学研究事务中心统筹研究战略、产学合作以及区域联盟与成果商业化，为师生科研提供行政支撑。

• Across its faculties the university keeps an internal abbreviation system, so the Department of Architecture in Engineering is marked A while the Applied Electronics department in Advanced Engineering is marked AE.该校在各学部之间沿用内部缩写系统，如工学部的建筑学系标记为 A，先端工学部的应用电子学系标记为 AE。

• A Special Training Course for Teachers, organised by discipline, supplies the practical route through which graduates earn teaching licences in mathematics and the sciences.该校按学科设置的教职特别养成课程，为毕业生取得数理科教师资格提供实践通道。

• Its undergraduate entrance profile is defined not by general liberal-arts breadth but by a subject-based selection emphasizing mathematics and natural sciences from the first year.该校本科入学的选拔特色并非通才通识，而是自一年级起就以数学与自然学科为核心的分科导向。

Campus

• The main Kagurazaka campus stands at latitude 35.6895 and longitude 139.69171, in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, with Iidabashi Station the nearest rail access.本部乐岩濑校区位于东京新宿区，地理坐标为北纬 35.6895、东经 139.69171，最近的车站是饭田桥站。

• Apart from Kagurazaka the university runs the Fujimi school building in Chiyoda, the Katsushika campus in eastern Tokyo, the Noda campus in Chiba, and the Oshamambe campus in Hokkaido.除乐岩濑外，该校在千代田设有伏见校舍，在东京东部设有葛饰校区，在千叶设有野田校区，在北海道设有小樽郡 Oshamambe（鹰栖）校区。

• The Oshamambe site in Hokkaido, opened far from the Tokyo core, hosts the Division of Integrated Science of Oshamambe and other large-footprint experimental facilities.位于北海道、远离东京本部的鹰栖校区设有鹰栖综合科学分部等需要大场地的实验设施。

• Library holdings are divided among four collections located at Kagurazaka, Noda, Katsushika and Oshamambe, each serving the faculties that sit at the same campus.馆藏图书分为乐岩濑、野田、葛饰与鹰栖四处馆藏，各自服务于同处校区的学部。

• Beyond libraries the campuses provide a Science and Technology Museum, athletic facilities, a seminar house, a training centre and the Morito Memorial Hall.除图书馆外，各校区还设有科学技术博物馆、体育设施、合宿研习所、培训中心以及森户纪念讲堂。

• Its affiliated institutions include Tokyo University of Science Yamaguchi at Sanyo-Onoda and Tokyo University of Science Suwa at Chino in Nagano, both four-year private universities.其姊妹校包括位于山阳小野田的东京理科大学山口，以及位于长野诹访的东京理科大学诹访，两所均为四年制私立大学。

• The Kagurazaka campus keeps the founding memory in its museums and halls while the Noda and Oshamambe sites carry the laboratory-intensive faculties of science and engineering.乐岩濑校区以博物馆与讲堂保存创校记忆，野田与鹰栖校区则承载以实验为主的理工类学部。

• Its five-campus spread across Kanto and Hokkaido distinguishes Tokyo University of Science from single-site metropolitan private universities in Japan.该校横跨关东与北海道的五校区格局，使其有别于日本仅在都心单址办学的私立大学。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Tokyo University of Science is placed in the 851-900 band, the ranking position for which this entry is written.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，东京理科大学列入第 851-900 位，本条目即据此档位收录。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university appears in the 1401-1600 band, a wider international standing below its own domestic reputation.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校列入第 1401-1600 档，其国际位次低于本国声誉。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking the university is placed at number 1401 worldwide, a numerical position rather than a band.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校名列全球第 1401 位，为具体名次而非区间。

• In the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities the university is placed in the 601-700 band of the main table, a standing supported by its natural-sciences research base.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜中，该校列入第 601-700 档，其理科研究基础支撑了这一位置。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities places Tokyo University of Science in equal thirteenth position among all Japanese universities, one of the strongest domestic subject-level standings recorded for the school.软科世界大学学术排名将东京理科大学列为日本全国大学中的并列第 13 位，是该校全国学科维度排位中最强的一项记录。

• Times Higher Education ranking of the universities educating chief executives of the world's largest companies places Tokyo University of Science third among Japanese universities, an alumni standing rather than a research count.泰晤士高等教育以全球最大企业首席执行官之毕业院校排名该校于日本大学中的第 3 位，属于校友声誉而非科研计数。

• Measurable research capacity includes the 75 overseas academic exchange agreements recorded in 2016, the four campus libraries and the roughly one hundred faculties, departments and graduate programmes maintained across the group.可计量的科研承载力包括 2016 年所记 75 项海外学术交流协议、四所校区图书馆，以及集团约一百个学部、学科与研究生课程。

• Its alumni and faculty have produced two Nobel laureates in the sciences, one in physiology or medicine and one in chemistry, an unusually high honour count for a private Japanese university.该校校友与教师中已产生两位诺贝尔科学奖得主，一属生理学与医学、一属化学，这在日本私立大学中是罕见的荣誉密度。

Student life

• Campus life is built around the four-science core, and the universities long tradition of laboratory work, seminar culture and student-built experiments at Kagurazaka and Noda frames student experience.该校校园生活围绕四大理科核心展开，在乐岩濑与野田，以实验室作业、研讨会文化与师生自制实验为传统的经验塑造着学生生活。

• Athletic facilities are maintained on the main campuses, and the training centre and seminar house at Oshamambe and elsewhere support clubs, retreats and laboratory residentials.各主要校区均设体育设施，鹰栖等地的培训中心与合宿研习所则支持社团活动、研修营与驻场实验。

• Students at the university take part in projects that reach the sky, as a team at the Kagurazaka campus designed, built and in 2017 launched the small satellite TSUBAME.学生有机会参与直达太空的项目：乐岩濑校区的一支师生团队设计、制造并于 2017 年发射了小型卫星「TSUBAME」。

• Its museums and halls, above all the Science and Technology Museum, open the work of the university to school visits and general public audiences.该校博物馆与讲堂，尤以科学技术博物馆为代表，向中小学与公众参观开放，展示学校的科研与教学成果。

• The internal abbreviation system, assigning letters such as S, B, K, A, AE and IST to departments, is a daily marker of student identity across the faculties.该校内部学系缩写字母如 S、B、K、A、AE、IST，是学生跨越学部识别自身院系归属的日常标记。

• Because Science Division II keeps a night division in mathematics, physics and chemistry, working students can pursue the same core sciences after hours.由于第二理学部在数学、物理与化学设夜间部，在职学生也能在下班后修读同一些核心理科。

• Its affiliated universities in Yamaguchi and Nagano provide a shared calendar of academic festivals and student activity that links the metropolitan campuses to regional ones.该校在山口与长野的姊妹校与本部共享学园祭与学生活动历，使都心校区与地方校区相连。

Notable people

• Among the founders of the Tokyo Academy of Physics in 1881 were the twenty-one graduates of the physics department of the University of Tokyo, a group that set the school's experimental character from the first year.东京物理学讲习所 1881 年的创办者即东京帝国大学物理学科的二十一名毕业生，他们从第一年起就塑造了该校的实验科学气质。

• Satoshi Omura, a graduate of Tokyo University of Science, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of ivermectin, a therapy against river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.东京理科大学校友大村智因发现伊维菌素（ivermectin，用于河盲症与淋巴丝虫病）而获 2015 年诺贝尔生理学与医学奖。

• Kenso Soai, professor at Tokyo University of Science, is credited with the Soai reaction in asymmetric autocatalysis and is recorded as the 2026 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.东京理科大学教授佐合光雄以不对称自催化的「佐合反应」著称，材料记其为 2026 年诺贝尔化学奖得主。

• Akira Fujishima, president of the university from 2010 to 2018, is the discoverer of the photocatalytic water-splitting effect of titanium dioxide, a foundation of the field now called photocatalysis.藤嶋昭于 2010 年至 2018 年任校长，是二氧化钛光催化分解水效应的发现者，为今日光催化领域的奠基人之一。

• Teruaki Mukaiyama, a former professor of the university, is remembered for the Mukaiyama aldol addition, a reaction still taught in every organic chemistry course.该校前教授向山照熈以「向山羟醛加成」留名，该反应至今仍是所有有机化学课程的必修内容。

• Makoto Asashima, vice president of the university, is the discoverer of activin, a signalling protein central to developmental biology and endocrine research.该校副校长麻生隆（Makoto Asashima）是激活素（activin）的发现者，此信号蛋白在发育生物学与内分泌研究中居于核心地位。

• Chiaki Mukai, a Tokyo University of Science graduate and vice president, flew twice as a JAXA astronaut and became the first Japanese woman in space.东京理科大学校友、副校长向井千秋以宇宙航空研究开发机构（JAXA）宇航员身份两次进入太空，是日本首位进入太空的女性。

• Norio Taniguchi, a former professor of the university, is widely credited with coining the word nanotechnology, describing ultra-precision machining processes in 1974.该校前教授谷口纪男被普遍认为是「纳米技术（nanotechnology）」一词的提出者，在 1974 年用以描述超精密加工。

• Jin Akiyama, an alumnus, is a mathematician known for work in graph drawing and discrete geometry, and Isamu Shiina for the Shiina macrolactonization and esterification reactions.校友秋山仁以图绘制与离散几何研究著称，向冢勇（Isamu Shiina）则以向塚大环内酯化与向塚酯化反应闻名。

• Shigeru Yoshida, the wartime and post-war Prime Minister of Japan, studied at the predecessor physics college in 1896 before leaving without a degree, an alumnus relationship the university still lists.战时与战后日本首相吉田茂曾于 1896 年在其前身物理学校就读但未完成学业，校方至今仍将这段关系列为校友。

• Its alumni include Philip Condit, chief executive officer of Boeing from 1996 to 2003, and Toshihiro Suzuki, chief executive officer of Suzuki Motor Corporation from 2016.该校校友包括 1996 至 2003 年任波音（Boeing）首席执行官的康狄恩（Philip Condit）与 2016 年起任铃木汽车（Suzuki）首席执行官的铃木俊宏。

• In business alumni lead major Japanese firms, with Zenji Miura serving as chief executive officer of Ricoh, Masahiro Inoue of Yahoo Japan and Tatsuya Tanaka as president of Fujitsu.该校商界校友领衔日本大型企业，包括三村Zenji（Zenji Miura）任理光（Ricoh）CEO、井上雅博任雅虎日本（Yahoo Japan）CEO、田中达也出任富士通（Fujitsu）社长。

• Kazuo Motoyama, chairman of the university since 2015, earlier served as president of Asahi Soft Drinks, one of several graduates to combine industrial leadership with campus governance.自 2015 年起担任该校董事长的青山一男，此前曾任朝日软饮（Asahi Soft Drinks）社长，是兼任产业领导与校政的毕业生之一。

• In architecture, Kazuo Shinohara, an alumnus, was awarded the special commemorative Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, while Hideto Horiike held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of California in Los Angeles.在建筑领域，校友篠原一男获威尼斯建筑双年展特别纪念金狮奖，堀池秀人曾任麻省理工学院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）与加州大学洛杉矶分校（University of California）访问教授。

• In academia Tetsuo Asakura, an alumnus, developed silk-based artificial blood vessels, Yasuhiko Kojima is credited with the discovery of interferon, and Tashpolat Tiyip became president of Xinjiang University.在学术领域，校友浅田彻开发出以蚕丝制成的人工血管，小島康彦以干扰素发现著称，Tashpolat Tiyip（图尔贡）则出任新疆大学校长。