Yokohama City University

Yokohama City University (YCU) is a public university in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It traces its origins to the Yokohama School of Commerce, founded in 1882 by 27 local merchants, and was chartered as a new-system university in 1949 with a single Faculty of Commerce.横滨市立大学（Yokohama City University，简称 YCU）是日本神奈川县横滨市金泽区的一所公立大学，其源头为 1882 年由 27 位本地商人创办的横滨商法学校，1949 年作为新制大学以单一商学部起步。

The university now comprises five undergraduate faculties, six graduate schools, two affiliated research institutes and two affiliated hospitals, and the QS 2027 institutional profile records 5,198 students, of whom 81 per cent are undergraduates and 205 are international students.该校现设 5 个学部、6 个研究科、2 个附属研究所与 2 所附属医院；QS 2027 院校档案记录在校生 5,198 人，其中本科生占 81%，国际学生 205 人。

It is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval of the global table, and in January 2025 it was one of 25 institutions chosen from about 800 applicants for Japan's J-PEAKS research-strengthening programme.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 1001-1200 位（并列区间）；2025 年 1 月，它从约 800 所申请院校中入选日本 J-PEAKS 强化研究型大学计划，全国仅 25 所。

History

• The medical line began in 1871 with a temporary hospital opened on the initiative of the physician and entrepreneur Yūteki Hayashi and supported by local donors, and the institution was renamed Juzen Hospital in 1874 before passing to municipal control in 1891.医学一脉始于 1871 年，由医师兼实业家早矢仕有的倡议、当地捐助者支持开设的临时医院；该院 1874 年改称十全医院，1891 年转为横滨市管辖。
• The commercial line began in 1882, when 27 Yokohama merchants founded the Yokohama School of Commerce to train young people in Western commercial techniques for the port trade that had opened in 1859.商科一脉始于 1882 年，27 位横滨商人创办横滨商法学校，为 1859 年开港后的贸易培养掌握西方商业技术的人才。
• In 1888 the school was renamed the Yokohama Commercial School and settled into a five-year course for boys aged 14 to 19, drawing many sons of local merchants under a deliberately practical curriculum.1888 年，学校改名横滨商业学校，定型为面向 14 至 19 岁男生的五年制学校，以务实的课程吸引了大批本地商家子弟。
• The school was municipalised in 1917 as the Yokohama Municipal Yokohama Commercial School, known as the Y-school, which placed it under the city rather than a private association of merchants.1917 年，学校转为市立，称横滨市立横滨商业学校（Y 校），办学主体由商人团体变为横滨市。
• In 1921 it became the only seven-year commercial school in Japan, admitting boys from the age of 12, but the Ministry of Education's commercial-school regulations of the same year did not recognise a seven-year course.1921 年，它成为日本唯一的七年制商业学校，招收 12 岁起的学生；但同年文部省的商业学校规程并不承认七年制。
• Under pressure from the ministry the school shortened its programme in 1924 into a five-year course with a two-year specialised upper division, a compromise that preserved seven years of study in practice.在文部省压力下，学校于 1924 年改为五年制加两年专攻科的学制，实际上仍保留了七年学习年限。
• In 1928 that specialised course became the Yokohama City College of Commerce, known as Y-sen, and YCU now treats 1928 as its founding year, so its centenary falls in 2028.1928 年，专攻科升格为横滨市立横滨商业专门学校（Y 专）；横滨市立大学现以 1928 年为创校年，故 2028 年将迎来建校一百周年。
• The Yokohama Economic Research Institute was attached to the college in 1933, giving the commercial tradition a research arm that survives in the present-day university's economics and management groups.1933 年，横滨经济研究所附设于该校，为商科传统增设研究机构，其脉络延续至今的经济与经营学科群。
• In 1944 the college was renamed the Yokohama City Economics College, and in the same year the Yokohama Municipal Medical College was established with Juzen Hospital as its teaching hospital.1944 年，商科学校改名横滨市立经济专门学校；同年，横滨市立医学专门学校成立，十全医院成为其附属医院。
• After the war the medical college became Yokohama Medical University in 1947, with a three-year preparatory course followed by a four-year main course from 1949, making it a municipal university in its own right.战后，医学专门学校于 1947 年升格为横滨医科大学，先设三年制预科，1949 年再设四年制本科，成为独立的市立大学。
• Yokohama City University opened in 1949 under the new educational system with only the Faculty of Commerce, while the medical university ran in parallel and awarded its first four-year degrees in the same year.1949 年，横滨市立大学依新学制开学，仅设商学部；横滨医科大学同期运行，并于同年颁发首批四年制学位。
• In 1952 the medical university was merged into YCU and a Faculty of Literature and Science was added, creating the three-faculty structure of commerce, medicine and letters and science.1952 年，横滨医科大学并入横滨市立大学，同时新设文理学部，形成商学、医学、文理三学部并立的格局。
• The Kanazawa-Hakkei campus was established in 1954 on land facing Tokyo Bay, and it remains the main campus with the clock tower and ginkgo avenue that appear on university publications.金泽八景校区于 1954 年在面向东京湾的地块上建成，至今仍是主校区，校钟塔与银杏林荫道成为学校出版物上的标志景观。
• The Graduate School of Medicine was established with a doctoral course in 1961, the first graduate programme at the university and the base of its later medical and life-science research.1961 年，大学院医学研究科（博士课程）设立，是该校首个研究生院项目，也是其后医学与生命科学研究的基础。
• In 1963 President Hiroto Saegusa was killed in the Tsurumi rail accident, and the university held a university funeral for him, an event still recorded in its official chronology.1963 年，校长三枝博音在鹤见事故中罹难，学校为其举行大学葬，此事仍记载于官方沿革之中。
• Master's courses in business administration and economics followed in 1970, and doctoral courses in both fields were added in 1991 and 1997 as the commercial tradition was rebuilt at postgraduate level.1970 年，经营学研究科与经济学研究科（硕士课程）设立；1991 年与 1997 年又分别增设博士后期课程，商科传统在研究生层面得到重建。
• The Kihara Institute for Biological Research was transferred to YCU from its founding foundation in 1984, bringing a wheat-genetics programme begun by the geneticist Hitoshi Kihara into the university.1984 年，木原生物学研究所由原财团移交给横滨市立大学，把遗传学家木原均开创的小麦遗传学研究并入校内。
• The Fukuura campus opened in 1987 and the university hospital began operating there in 1991, separating clinical teaching and advanced medicine from the liberal-arts and science site at Kanazawa-Hakkei.福浦校区于 1987 年启用，附属医院 1991 年在彼处开院，临床教学与先进医学由此与金泽八景的文理校区分离。
• In 1995 the Faculty of Literature and Science was divided into the Faculty of International Culture and the Faculty of Science, and a junior college of nursing was created on the same reorganisation.1995 年，文理学部改组为国际文化学部与理学部，同年设立看护短期大学部。
• The Tsurumi campus was opened in 2001 as a joint graduate-school base with RIKEN, and in 2005 YCU became a public university corporation and merged its three humanities and science faculties into the International College of Arts and Sciences.鹤见校区于 2001 年作为与理化学研究所共建的研究生院基地启用；2005 年，学校改制为公立大学法人，并把商学、国际文化、理学三学部合并为国际综合科学部。
• The 2009 reorganisation split the graduate school into urban social and cultural studies, international management and nanobioscience, and later steps added data science in 2018 and divided the integrated college into three faculties in 2019.2009 年，研究科重组为都市社会文化、国际管理、生命纳米系统科学三个研究科；此后 2018 年新设数据科学学部，2019 年又把国际综合科学部拆为三个学部。
• In April 2026 the university opened the Center for Social Collaboration at its Minato Mirai satellite campus and raised the intake of the Department of Science from 120 to 140, with a further doubling of data-science intake to 120 planned for April 2027.2026 年 4 月，学校在港未来卫星校区设立社会共创中心，并把理学部理学科招生定额由 120 人提高到 140 人；数据科学学部则计划于 2027 年 4 月把定额由 60 人倍增至 120 人。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into five faculties, namely International Liberal Arts, International Business, Science, Data Science and Medicine, the last containing a six-year medical course and a four-year nursing course.教学分为国际教养、国际商学、理学、数据科学、医学 5 个学部，医学部下设六年制医学科与四年制看护学科。
• Six graduate schools cover urban social and cultural studies, international management, nanobioscience, medical life science, data science and medicine, and they award master's and doctoral degrees in arts, management, economics, science, medicine and nursing.6 个研究科分别为都市社会文化、国际管理、生命纳米系统科学、生命医科学、数据科学与医学，可授予学术、经营、经济、理学、医学与看护学硕士及博士学位。
• As of 1 May 2024 the university counted 4,279 undergraduates and 823 academic staff, while the QS 2027 profile gives a total of 5,198 students and 939 faculty staff, a student-to-staff ratio near five to one.截至 2024 年 5 月 1 日，学校有本科生 4,279 人、专任教师 823 人；QS 2027 档案则给出学生 5,198 人、教职员 939 人，师生比约为五比一。
• The Faculty of Data Science was created in 2018 as the first such faculty in the Tokyo metropolitan region, and its intake is scheduled to double from 60 to 120 students in April 2027.数据科学学部于 2018 年设立，是首都圈首个数据科学学部；其招生定额将于 2027 年 4 月由 60 人倍增至 120 人。
• The School of Medicine trains physicians over six years and nurses over four, and its two teaching hospitals, the YCU Hospital at Fukuura and the YCU Medical Center at Urafune, together provide more than 1,300 beds.医学部医学科为六年制、看护学科为四年制；两所教学医院即福浦的横滨市立大学附属医院与浦舟的市民综合医疗中心，合计提供 1,300 张以上病床。
• The 671-bed YCU Hospital is designated a regional cancer-care hospital and a specific-function hospital, and its Advanced Medical Research Center was established in 2006 to link laboratory work with clinical trials.拥有 671 张病床的附属医院被指定为地区癌症诊疗据点医院与特定功能医院；2006 年设立的先端医科学研究中心负责把基础研究同临床试验衔接起来。
• The Kihara Institute for Biological Research on the Maioka campus is one of the world's leading centres for wheat genetics, and it also runs international projects on crops such as rubber trees and their diseases.位于舞冈校区的木原生物学研究所是世界领先的小麦遗传学研究中心之一，并开展橡胶树等作物病害防治的国际合作项目。
• Since 2001 the Tsurumi campus has hosted a joint graduate school with RIKEN, in which RIKEN Yokohama researchers serve as guest professors and supervise doctoral students in medical life science.自 2001 年起，鹤见校区与理化学研究所合办研究生院，由理研横滨研究所的研究人员担任客座教授，指导生命医科学方向的博士生。
• In January 2025 YCU was selected for J-PEAKS, a national programme supporting regional core research universities, and it used the funding to create a social-collaboration centre at Minato Mirai in April 2026.2025 年 1 月，横滨市立大学入选 J-PEAKS 地区核心研究型大学强化计划，并借此于 2026 年 4 月在港未来设立社会共创中心。
• English is compulsory for three days a week, and students must reach at least 500 on the TOEFL ITP before advancing to the third year, or to the second year in the six-year medical course.英语课每周必修三天，学生升入三年级前须取得托福 ITP 500 分以上；六年制医学科则在升入二年级时适用同一要求。
• The university holds exchange agreements with about 80 universities and research institutions in 32 countries and regions, including UC San Diego, UCLA, the University of Vienna and Universiti Sains Malaysia.学校与 32 个国家和地区的约 80 所大学及研究机构签订交流协议，其中包括加州大学圣迭戈分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、维也纳大学与马来西亚理科大学。
• Its California office opened in Santa Clara in 2007 as a core member of the Japanese University Network in the Bay Area, supporting internships and research placements for students and staff.该校加利福尼亚办公室于 2007 年在圣克拉拉设立，作为日本大学湾区网络（JUNBA）的核心成员，为学生与教师提供实习和研究派驻支持。
• Medical entrance for 2026 offers 70 places in the general round, 13 in the Kanagawa recommendation round, eight outside the prefecture and two through the International Baccalaureate route.2026 年度医学部入学考试中，一般选拔 70 人、神奈川县内推荐 13 人、县外推荐 8 人、国际文凭特别选拔 2 人。
• Joint graduate programmes link the medical school with the Kanagawa Cancer Center, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Yokohama National University.医学研究科与神奈川县立癌症中心、神奈川县立儿童医疗中心、国立感染症研究所及横滨国立大学等单位开设联合研究生院项目。
• Tuition for the 2025 academic year was 535,800 yen a year, with an admission fee of 282,000 yen, a scale that reflects its status as a municipal rather than private institution.2025 年度学费为每年 535,800 日元，入学金 282,000 日元，这一水平体现了其市立而非私立大学的属性。
• OpenAlex indexes 38,756 works and 2,776,979 citations for the university, with output concentrated in clinical medicine, biochemistry and the plant sciences.OpenAlex 收录该校 38,756 项研究成果与 2,776,979 次引用，产出集中于临床医学、生物化学与植物科学。

Campus

• The Kanazawa-Hakkei campus at 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, is the main site, five minutes on foot from Kanazawa-Hakkei station and home to the clock tower, the ginkgo avenue and the YCU Square plaza.主校区金泽八景校区位于金泽区濑户 22-2，从金泽八景站步行约 5 分钟，校钟塔、银杏林荫道与 YCU 广场都在此处。
• The Fukuura campus at 3-9 Fukuura houses the School of Medicine, the university hospital and the Advanced Medical Research Center, and is linked directly to Shidai-Igakubu station on the Yokohama Seaside Line.福浦校区位于福浦 3-9，容纳医学部、附属医院与先端医科学研究中心，并与横滨海岸线铁路的市大医学部站直接相连。
• The Maioka campus at 641-12 Maioka-cho in Totsuka-ku is a green site containing the Kihara Institute and its Kihara Memorial Room, which has been visited by the Emperor Emeritus and Empress Emerita of Japan.舞冈校区位于户塚区舞冈町 641-12，绿意环绕，设有木原生物学研究所与木原纪念室，日本上皇与上皇后曾到访。
• The Tsurumi campus at 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho opened in 2001 beside the Tsurumi River as a graduate-school partnership with RIKEN and houses the Graduate School of Medical Life Science.鹤见校区位于鹤见区末广町 1-7-29，2001 年在鹤见川畔启用，作为与理化学研究所合作的研究生院基地，设有生命医科学研究科。
• The Minato Mirai satellite campus opened in April 2020 on the seventh floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower, inside the NANA Lv innovation centre managed by Mitsubishi Estate, and focuses on data-science teaching.港未来卫星校区于 2020 年 4 月在横滨地标塔七层启用，位于三菱地所运营的 NANA Lv 创新中心内，主要承担数据科学教学。
• The main campus provides two athletic grounds, three club buildings, cafeterias, an academic information centre and a hall, while the medical campus adds a clinical skills laboratory and an animal research facility.主校区设有两片运动场、三栋社团专用楼、食堂、学术信息中心与礼堂；医学校区另设临床技能实训室与动物实验设施。
• The official mascot Yochy, a ginkgo-leaf character created in 2008 for the university's 80th anniversary, draws on the ginkgo trees that line the main approach and appears on university merchandise.官方吉祥物「ヨッチー」是 2008 年为建校 80 周年设计的银杏叶形象，取材于主校区行道两旁的银杏树，并用于各类校方纪念品。
• Kanazawa-Hakkei is about 20 minutes by express train from Yokohama station and 40 minutes from Shinagawa in Tokyo, so the campus combines a seaside setting with access to the metropolitan commuter belt.从横滨站乘快车至金泽八景约 20 分钟，从东京品川站出发约 40 分钟，校园因此兼得海滨环境与首都圈通勤之便。

Reputation

• YCU is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval rather than a single position, the same band it occupied in the 2026 edition.横滨市立大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于第 1001-1200 位区间，这是并列区间而非单一名次，与 2026 年版所处区间相同。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 801-1000 band, its strongest showing among the four major global tables in that cycle.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列第 801-1000 位区间，是同期四大全球榜单中的最好表现。
• U.S. News and World Report ranks it 1,070th in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, while the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 901-1000 band.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年全球最佳大学排名将该校列为第 1,070 位；2026 年软科世界大学学术排名则将其列入第 901-1000 位区间。
• In the 2027 U.S. News subject tables the university ranks 133rd in gastroenterology and hepatology, 135th in surgery and 257th in oncology, reflecting its clinical research strength.在 2027 年《美国新闻与世界报道》学科榜中，该校消化与肝病学列第 133 位、外科学第 135 位、肿瘤学第 257 位，反映其临床研究实力。
• QS placed YCU's medicine subject in the 701-850 band for 2026, and THE ranked clinical and health at 501-600 and life sciences at 601-800 in its 2026 subject tables.QS 2026 学科排名把该校医学列入第 701-850 位区间；泰晤士 2026 学科榜则将临床与健康列为第 501-600 位、生命科学列为第 601-800 位。
• In 2016 THE ranked YCU 16th in the world and second in Japan among universities with fewer than 5,000 students, a measure that suits its deliberately small undergraduate base.2016 年，泰晤士高等教育在「全球最佳小型大学」评选中把该校列为世界第 16 位、日本第 2 位，该榜专为在校生少于 5,000 人的大学而设。
• OpenAlex records 38,756 works and 2,776,979 citations, a citation-to-work ratio of about 72, with medical and life-science papers accounting for the largest share.OpenAlex 记录该校 38,756 项成果与 2,776,979 次引用，篇均引用约 72 次，医学与生命科学论文占比最大。
• Its QS position moved from 460th in 2019 to 501-510 in 2023 and then to 801-850 in 2024, a shift that coincided with changes to the ranking's indicators rather than a collapse in output.该校 QS 名次由 2019 年的第 460 位降至 2023 年的第 501-510 位，2024 年又降至第 801-850 位；这一变化与榜单指标调整同期发生，并非科研产出骤降。
• YCU belongs to the Port-City University League and is a core member of the Japanese University Network in the Bay Area, reflecting its identity as a municipal university in a port city.该校是港口城市大学联盟成员，也是日本大学湾区网络的核心成员，这与其作为港口城市市立大学的定位相符。

Student life

• YCU has no formal school motto of the precept kind, and its public mission instead commits it to education, research and medical care as part of the social infrastructure of Yokohama, under the phrase From Yokohama to the world.横滨市立大学没有格言式校训，其公开使命改为承诺以教育、研究、医疗作为横滨社会基础设施的一部分，并以「从横滨走向世界」为口号。
• The school song was written by the poet Saijo Yaso and set to music by the composer Koseki Yuji, and it is sung at entrance and graduation ceremonies alongside the university's YCU symbol mark.校歌由诗人西条八十作词、作曲家古关裕而作曲，在开学典礼与毕业典礼上演唱，与 YCU 象征标志一同使用。
• The ginkgo-leaf mascot Yochy, introduced in 2008, is used in orientation materials and student events, and it connects the student body to the tree-lined main avenue of the Kanazawa-Hakkei campus.2008 年推出的银杏叶吉祥物「ヨッチー」出现在新生导览与学生活动中，把学生与金泽八景校区的银杏大道联系起来。
• Student self-government on the main campus is led by a central committee of the student association, below which sit a cultural federation, a sports federation, the Hamadai Festival committee and the Co-op student committee Warp.主校区的学生自治以学生自治会中央委员会为核心，其下设有文化部联合会、运动部联合会、滨大祭实行委员会与生协学生委员会 Warp。
• The Hamadai Festival is the main annual campus event, organised by students on the Kanazawa-Hakkei campus and combining department exhibits, performances and food stalls with open access to local residents.滨大祭是该校最主要的年度校园活动，由金泽八景校区的学生筹办，结合院系展示、演出与饮食摊档，并向当地居民开放。
• The baseball club, based on the main campus, has won the Kanagawa University Baseball League 13 times, reached the last four of the national championship twice and finished runner-up in the 1963 Japan University Baseball Association tournament.校棒球部设于主校区，曾 13 次夺得神奈川大学棒球联盟冠军，两度闯入全国大学棒球锦标赛四强，并于 1963 年日本学生棒球协会锦标赛获得亚军。
• Since 1934 the baseball club has played an annual fixture against the predecessor of Kanagawa University, a rivalry that began when both schools were still commercial and technical colleges in Yokohama.自 1934 年起，校棒球部每年与神奈川大学前身交手，这一对抗始于两校仍为横滨的商业与工业专科学校时期。
• The medical campus has its own self-government body, the Aosuikai, with separate sports and cultural federations, a medical festival committee and a student newspaper, so the two campuses sustain distinct traditions.医学校区拥有独立自治组织「碧水会」，下设运动部与文艺部联合会、医学祭实行委员会及学生新闻会，使两个校区各自延续不同的传统。

Notable people

• Tai Sekiguchi, a legal scholar and the university's first president from 1950 to 1952, led YCU in its earliest years as a single-faculty municipal university.关口泰是法学家，1950 至 1952 年担任横滨市立大学首任校长，在单一学部的市立大学初创期主持校务。
• Hiroto Saegusa, a philosopher and historian of science who served as the fourth president from 1961 until his death in the 1963 Tsurumi rail accident, is commemorated in the university's official chronology.三枝博音是哲学家与科学史家，1961 年起任第四任校长，1963 年在鹤见事故中罹难，校方沿革中专门记载此事。
• Hitoshi Kihara, the wheat geneticist whose institute transferred to YCU in 1984, received the Order of Culture in 1948 for establishing the genome analysis of wheat and for breeding seedless triploid watermelon.木原均是小麦遗传学家，其研究所于 1984 年移交该校；他因建立小麦染色体组分析并培育无子三倍体西瓜，于 1948 年获文化勋章。
• Makoto Asashima, a developmental biologist who taught at YCU from 1974 to 1993, discovered activin as a mesoderm-inducing factor in 1988 and received the Japan Academy Prize with the Imperial Award in 2001.浅岛诚是发生生物学家，1974 至 1993 年在横滨市立大学任教，1988 年发现活化素为中胚层诱导因子，2001 年获日本学士院奖暨恩赐奖。
• Kenji Kosaka, professor of psychiatry at YCU from 1991 and later director of its medical centre, first described dementia with Lewy bodies in 1976 and received the Asahi Prize in 2013.小坂宪司 1991 年起任横滨市立大学精神医学教授，后任附属市民综合医疗中心院长；他于 1976 年首次描述路易体痴呆，2013 年获朝日奖。
• Takanori Takebe, a 2011 graduate of the School of Medicine and later a special professor at its Advanced Medical Research Center, built a miniature liver from iPS cells in 2013 and shared the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.武部贵则 2011 年毕业于该校医学部，后任先端医科学研究中心特别教授；他 2013 年用 iPS 细胞构建迷你肝脏，并于 2024 年共同获得搞笑诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• Ken Hirai, the R&B and pop singer, is an alumnus, as is the novelist Hase Seishu, who won the Naoki Prize in 1996 for his yakuza novel The City of No Night.节奏布鲁斯与流行歌手平井坚是该校校友；小说家驰星周同样毕业于此，他以黑帮小说《不夜城》于 1996 年获直木奖。
• Takeshi Tanaka, the eighth president of Fuji Heavy Industries, graduated from YCU, and the composer Yoshimata Ryo, known for television and film scores, is also an alumnus.富士重工业第八任社长田中毅毕业于该校；以影视配乐闻名的作曲家吉俣良亦是校友。
• Hiroyuki Mori, mayor of Kagoshima City, studied at YCU, giving the university a presence in local and national politics as well as in business and the arts.鹿儿岛市市长森博幸曾就读于该校，使横滨市立大学在商界与文艺界之外，也在地方政治中拥有校友代表。
• Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes, received an honorary doctorate from YCU in November 1997, one of several Nobel laureates so honoured.因发现富勒烯而分享 1996 年诺贝尔化学奖的哈罗德·克罗托，于 1997 年 11 月获该校名誉博士学位，是该校授予名誉博士的几位诺贝尔奖得主之一。