Yokohama National University

Yokohama National University (YNU) is a national university in Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1949 by merging four pre-war official institutions whose earliest predecessor, the Yokohama Normal School, dates from 1876.横滨国立大学（Yokohama National University，简称 YNU）是日本神奈川县横滨市保土谷区的一所国立大学，1949 年由四所战前官立学校合并设立，其中最早的前身横滨师范学校可追溯至 1876 年。

It is the only Japanese national university whose name contains the word kokuritsu, or national, and it teaches through five faculties and five graduate schools, with a sixth inter-university doctoral programme in school education.它是日本唯一校名中冠有「国立」二字的国立大学，设有 5 个学部与 5 个研究科，另参与一个联合学校教育学博士项目。

Enrolment stood at 9,661 students on 1 May 2025, including 7,409 undergraduates and 2,252 postgraduates, of whom 639 were international, while the main Tokiwadai campus covers 455,000 square metres.2025 年 5 月 1 日在校生为 9,661 人，其中本科生 7,409 人、研究生 2,252 人、国际学生 639 人；主校区常盘台占地 45.5 万平方米。

History

• The oldest root is the Yokohama Normal School of 1876, which trained elementary teachers for the newly created public school system and later became Kanagawa Normal School.最早的源头是 1876 年设立的横滨师范学校，为新建的公立学校体系培养小学教师，后来演变为神奈川师范学校。
• In 1920 two further foundations were laid, the Kanagawa Prefectural Supplementary School Teachers' Training Institute, later Kanagawa Youth Normal School, and the Yokohama Higher Technical School, the predecessor of the engineering faculty.1920 年又奠定两处根基，即后来的神奈川青年师范学校前身神奈川县立实业补习学校教员养成所，以及工学部前身横滨高等工业学校。
• The Yokohama Higher Commercial School was established in 1923 and became the Yokohama College of Economics, supplying the commercial and economic tradition that shaped the later Faculty of Economics.横滨高等商业学校于 1923 年设立，后发展为横滨经济专门学校，其商业与经济传统塑造了后来的经济学部。
• Suzuki Tatsuji, the first principal of the Yokohama Higher Technical School, articulated an educational philosophy of meikyo shizen, or teaching by nature, and a 6.6-metre stone monument to him was erected in 1937.横滨高等工业学校首任校长铃木达治提出「名教自然」的教育理念，1937 年校方为他立起一座高约 6.6 米的石碑。
• In July 1948 the four institutions jointly applied to the Ministry of Education for a single university to be called Yokohama University, but two other new institutions in the city submitted the same name.1948 年 7 月，四校联合向文部省申请设立一所名为「横滨大学」的新制大学，但横滨市内另两所新设学校也提出了同一校名。
• The three applicants negotiated a division of names, agreeing that none would use Yokohama University, so the national institution took Yokohama National University, the municipal one Yokohama City University and the private one Kanagawa University.三方协商分配校名，约定均不使用「横滨大学」，于是国立学校定名横滨国立大学，市立学校定名横滨市立大学，私立学校定名神奈川大学。
• YNU opened in May 1949 with three faculties, Arts and Sciences, Economics and Engineering, on a scatter of inherited sites in Yokohama, Kamakura and elsewhere.1949 年 5 月，横滨国立大学以学艺、经济、工学三个学部开学，校舍分散在横滨、镰仓等继承自前身的多处地块。
• The student song Miharukasu was written and composed by students in 1956 and remains the song most often performed at entrance ceremonies, alongside the official school song.学生歌《みはるかす》由学生于 1956 年作词作曲，至今仍是与正式校歌并列、在开学典礼上最常演唱的歌曲。
• A master's programme in engineering followed in 1963, the first graduate course at YNU and a sign of the priority given to engineering in the postwar expansion.1963 年，工学研究科硕士课程设立，是该校首个研究生课程，显示战后扩张中以工学为重心的取向。
• The Faculty of Arts and Sciences was renamed the Faculty of Education in 1966, and in 1967 the economics faculty was split to create a separate Faculty of Business Administration, the only one in eastern Japan at the time.学艺学部于 1966 年改称教育学部；1967 年经济学部改组，分出独立的经营学部，当时是东日本唯一的经营学部。
• In 1974 the scattered faculties were consolidated on the Tokiwadai campus, built on the former Hodogaya Country Club, and the engineering faculty completed its move there in 1979.1974 年，分散的各学部整合到常盘台校区，校址原为程谷乡村俱乐部；工学部于 1979 年完成搬迁。
• For the campus plan the architect Kawai Shoichi and the botanist Miyawaki Akira combined a pedestrian spine following the site's contours with dense native planting, producing the wooded landscape that defines Tokiwadai today.校园规划由建筑师河合正一与植物学家宫胁昭合作，沿地形等高线布置步行主轴，并大量种植本土树种，形成今日常盘台的森林式景观。
• For its 30th anniversary in 1981 the university carried out a commemorative tree-planting programme, and in the same year opened an international student hall, followed by an international exchange hall in 1982.1981 年建校 30 周年时，学校实施纪念植树计划，同年启用留学生会馆，1982 年又启用国际交流会馆。
• A doctoral programme in engineering was added in 1985, and doctoral courses in international economic law and international development followed in 1990 and 1994 as the graduate school widened beyond engineering.1985 年增设工学博士课程；1990 年与 1994 年又先后设立国际经济法与国际开发的博士课程，研究生教育由此超出工学范围。
• In 1996 YNU joined Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University and Chiba University in a joint doctoral graduate school of school education, the first such inter-university arrangement in teacher training.1996 年，横滨国立大学与东京学艺大学、埼玉大学、千叶大学共建联合学校教育学研究科（博士课程），是日本教师教育领域首个此类跨校联合研究生院。
• The Faculty of Education was reorganised into the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences in 1997, and in 1999 four graduate schools were merged into the Graduate School of International Social Sciences.教育学部于 1997 年改组为教育人间科学部；1999 年，经济、经营、国际经济法、国际开发四个研究科合并为国际社会科学研究科。
• In 2001 engineering was reorganised into an institute and a graduate school, and a new graduate school of environment and information sciences was created from the environmental science centre.2001 年，工学研究科改组为工学研究院与工学府，环境科学中心则改组为环境信息研究院与环境信息学府。
• YNU became a national university corporation in April 2004 and opened a law school within the international social sciences graduate school in the same year.2004 年 4 月，横滨国立大学转为国立大学法人，同年在其国际社会科学研究科内开设法科大学院。
• In 2011 the education and human sciences faculty and the engineering faculty were reorganised into a new Faculty of Engineering Science, and a graduate school of urban innovation was established.2011 年，教育人间科学部与工学部改组为新的理工学部，同时设立都市创新研究院与都市创新学府。
• A Faculty of Urban Science was added in 2017, the education faculty reverted to the name Faculty of Education, and a professional degree course for teachers was created in the same year.2017 年新设都市科学部，教育人间科学部改回教育学部，并新设教职专业学位课程（教职大学院）。
• The graduate engineering school was reorganised into a graduate school of engineering science in 2018, an interfaculty master's course opened in 2021, a new Shonan campus opened in Fujisawa in 2023 and a semiconductor research centre followed in 2024.2018 年工学府改组为理工学府，2021 年开设跨研究科的先进实践学环（硕士课程），2023 年在藤泽市开设新湘南共创校区，2024 年又设立半导体与量子集成电子研究中心。

Academics

• The five faculties are Education, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering Science and Urban Science, and together they cover teacher training, social science, engineering, architecture and urban policy.5 个学部为教育、经济、经营、理工与都市科学，覆盖教师培养、社会科学、工学、建筑与都市政策。
• Graduate teaching runs through the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Engineering Science, the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Urban Innovation.研究生教学由教育学研究科、国际社会科学府、理工学府、环境信息学府与都市创新学府承担。
• On 1 May 2025 YNU enrolled 7,409 undergraduates and 2,252 postgraduates, 639 of them international, and employed 576 full-time academic staff and 301 administrative staff, excluding its attached schools.2025 年 5 月 1 日，该校有本科生 7,409 人、研究生 2,252 人，其中留学生 639 人；专任教师 576 人、职员 301 人，均不含附属学校。
• The Faculty of Business Administration, founded in 1967, is one of only two business faculties in Japanese national universities, the other being Kobe University, and it is divided into business, accounting and information, management systems and international business.1967 年设立的经营学部是日本国立大学中仅有的两个经营学部之一（另一个为神户大学），下设经营、会计与信息、经营系统、国际经营四个领域。
• The Faculty of Engineering Science is organised into mechanical, materials and ocean engineering, chemical and life sciences, and mathematics, physics and electronic information, with programmes in aerospace, energy chemistry and information systems.理工学部按机械材料海洋系、化学生命系、数理电子信息系统三大学科组组织，设有航空航天、能源化学与信息系统等方向。
• The Faculty of Urban Science, created in 2017, comprises urban social symbiosis, architecture, urban infrastructure and environmental risk management, and trains students to work across engineering and social science.2017 年设立的都市科学部下设都市社会共生、建筑、都市基盘、环境风险管理四个学科，培养能跨工学与社会科学工作的人才。
• The Faculty of Education operates five attached schools, including Kamakura and Yokohama elementary and junior high schools and a special-needs school, which serve as teaching practice sites for student teachers.教育学部拥有 5 所附属学校，包括镰仓与横滨的小学、中学以及一所特别支援学校，作为师范生的教育实习基地。
• Architecture is taught through the Y-GSA graduate programme, a design-oriented school that has attracted practitioners such as Nishizawa Ryue and Yamamoto Riken, both later Pritzker laureates.建筑学通过 Y-GSA 研究生项目教授，该所以设计为导向，吸引了西泽立卫、山本理显等后来获得普利兹克奖的建筑师任教。
• Research is supported by the Institute of Advanced Sciences, founded in 2014, the Organization for Integrated Academic Research, created in 2023, and the Semiconductor and Quantum Integrated Electronics Research Center of 2024.科研平台包括 2014 年设立的先端科学高等研究院、2023 年设立的综合学术高等研究院，以及 2024 年成立的半导体与量子集成电子研究中心。
• The university library holds 1,270,949 volumes, and the institution reported 632 patents held as of 31 March 2025, a portfolio concentrated in engineering and materials science.附属图书馆藏书 1,270,949 册；截至 2025 年 3 月 31 日，学校持有 632 件专利，集中于工学与材料科学领域。
• YNU has concluded 138 university-level agreements with partners in 42 countries and regions, and 170 student exchange agreements that support semester and year-long exchanges.该校与 42 个国家和地区的伙伴签订 138 项校际协议，并签订 170 项学生交流协议，支持一学期或一学年的交换学习。
• Operating revenue for the 2024 financial year was 20.3 billion yen, total assets stood at 112 billion yen and external research income reached 4.08 billion yen.2024 财年营业收入为 203 亿日元，总资产 1,120 亿日元，外部研究经费达 40.8 亿日元。
• Graduate employment was 96.61 per cent, and the university ranked 13th nationally in the 2024 rate of graduates hired by 400 leading companies, according to the publisher Daigaku Tsushin.2024 年毕业生就业率为 96.61%；据大学通信统计，该校在「400 家知名企业实际录用率」中位列全国第 13 位。
• Engineering and civil engineering programmes are accredited by the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education, and the professional teacher-education course is accredited by the Institute for Teaching Excellence.工学与土木工程项目通过日本技术者教育认定机构（JABEE）认证，教职专业学位课程则通过教职大学院评价机构认证。
• The YOKOHAMA Socrates Program, launched in April 2024, allows students in the Faculty of Urban Science to earn a bachelor's degree through courses taught in English and Japanese.2024 年 4 月启动的 YOKOHAMA Socrates Program 允许都市科学部学生通过英日双语授课课程取得学士学位。
• OpenAlex indexes 41,097 works and 1,188,597 citations for YNU, with strong concentrations in engineering, materials science, chemistry and environmental studies.OpenAlex 收录该校 41,097 项成果与 1,188,597 次引用，成果集中于工学、材料科学、化学与环境研究。
• Tuition for the 2025 academic year was 535,800 yen, the standard national-university rate, and about 70 per cent of new undergraduates came from outside Kanagawa Prefecture.2025 年度学费为 535,800 日元，属国立大学标准水平；约七成本科新生来自神奈川县以外。

Campus

• The Tokiwadai campus at 79-1 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, is the main site, covering 455,000 square metres, roughly ten Tokyo Domes, with 12,253 trees and 266,414 square metres of building floor area.主校区常盘台位于保土谷区常盘台 79-1，占地 45.5 万平方米，约相当于十个东京巨蛋，校内种有 12,253 棵树，建筑总楼面面积 266,414 平方米。
• The campus master plan of the 1970s placed a curving pedestrian mall along the contours of the former golf course, with faculty buildings set among retained woods rather than arranged on a formal axis.1970 年代的校园总体规划沿原高尔夫球场等高线布置弯曲的步行主道，院系馆舍散布于保留的林间，而非排布在严整轴线上。
• The Meikyo Shizen monument, carved from a 6.6-metre block of crystalline limestone from Ibaraki Prefecture, was erected in 1937, moved to Tokiwadai in 1978 and registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2000.「名教自然碑」以茨城县产出的 6.6 米高结晶质石灰岩刻成，1937 年建立，1978 年随工学部迁至常盘台，2000 年被指定为国家登录有形文化财。
• The Minato Mirai campus occupies room 1809 on the 18th floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower and opened in 2004 to host evening MBA classes for working managers.港未来校区位于横滨地标塔 18 层 1809 室，2004 年启用，主要开设面向在职管理者的夜间 MBA 课程。
• The Hongo-ji campus in Minami-ku houses part of the education and research activity, while the Shinshonan Co-creation Campus opened in Muraoka, Fujisawa, in November 2023.位于南区的弘明寺校区承担部分教育与研究活动；新湘南共创校区则于 2023 年 11 月在藤泽市村冈地区启用。
• Five attached schools, two elementary, two junior high and one special-needs school, are distributed across Kamakura and Yokohama and are used for teaching practice by the Faculty of Education.5 所附属学校包括两所小学、两所中学与一所特别支援学校，分布在镰仓与横滨，供教育学部开展教育实习。
• The central library, the student centre and the health management centre are grouped along the main pedestrian spine, and buses run inside the campus because of its length.中央图书馆、学生中心与健康管理中心沿步行主轴布置；由于校园狭长，校内还开行巴士。
• Tokiwadai is about 15 minutes on foot from Tokiwadai station on the Sotetsu line, and the campus combines a wooded setting with direct rail access to central Yokohama.常盘台校区距相模铁道常盘台站步行约 15 分钟，既保有林地环境，又可乘轨道交通直达横滨市中心。

Reputation

• YNU is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval, having stood in the same band in 2025 and 2026.横滨国立大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 1001-1200 位区间，为并列区间，2025 与 2026 年版也处于同一区间。
• THE World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1401-1600 band, while U.S. News ranks it 1,853rd in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 1401-1600 位区间；《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年全球最佳大学排名则列为第 1,853 位。
• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places YNU in the 901-1000 band, its best position among the three major global tables that list it.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将该校列入第 901-1000 位区间，是其在三大全球主榜中的最好位置。
• In the Nikkei HR survey of corporate personnel managers, YNU ranked third overall over the ten years from 2015 to 2024, and second nationally in the 2023 edition.在日本经济新闻社与日经人力资源开展的企业人事负责人调查中，该校 2015 至 2024 年十年综合排名第 3，2023 年版更升至全国第 2。
• Graduate employment was 96.61 per cent in 2024, and the university stood 13th in Japan for the proportion of graduates hired by 400 leading companies.2024 年毕业生就业率为 96.61%，在「400 家知名企业录用率」中位列日本第 13 位。
• Three Pritzker Prize laureates have taught at YNU, Nishizawa Ryue and Sejima Kazuyo in 2010 and Yamamoto Riken in 2024, a record unmatched by most Japanese universities outside Tokyo.先后有三位普利兹克奖得主在该校任教，分别是 2010 年获奖的西泽立卫与妹岛和世，以及 2024 年获奖的山本理显，这一纪录在东京以外的日本大学中少见。
• OpenAlex records 41,097 works and 1,188,597 citations, a citation-to-work ratio of about 29, with engineering and materials science the most cited fields.OpenAlex 记录该校 41,097 项成果与 1,188,597 次引用，篇均引用约 29 次，工学与材料科学是被引最多的领域。
• The university's QS position has moved from 651-700 in 2014 to 801-1000 in 2021 and 1001-1200 from 2025, a decline that tracks the growing weight of citation and internationalisation indicators.该校 QS 名次由 2014 年的第 651-700 位降至 2021 年的第 801-1000 位，并从 2025 年起处于第 1001-1200 位区间；这一下滑与榜单日益重视引用和国际化的指标有关。
• YNU is a member of the Port-City University League and maintains a dense network of agreements with maritime and engineering universities in Asia and Europe.该校是港口城市大学联盟成员，并与亚洲、欧洲的海事与工科大学保持密集的协议网络。

Student life

• The YNU Charter of 2004, revised in 2023, sets out five principles, practicality, advancedness, openness, internationality and diversity, which replaced the older slogan of practical, progressive, open and international.2004 年制定、2023 年修订的《横滨国立大学宪章》提出实践性、先进性、开放性、国际性与多样性五项理念，取代早期「实用、进取、开放、国际」的表述。
• The student song Miharukasu, written and composed by students in 1956, is sung at entrance ceremonies, while the official school song is reserved for major commemorations.学生歌《みはるかす》由学生于 1956 年作词作曲，在开学典礼上演唱；正式校歌则多用于重大纪念仪式。
• The annual Tokiwadai Festival is run by a student executive committee and fills the pedestrian spine with departmental projects, stage performances and food stalls open to the surrounding neighbourhood.年度常盘台祭由学生实行委员会筹办，在步行主道两侧布置院系项目、舞台演出与饮食摊档，并向周边居民开放。
• Students can choose among 107 recognised clubs and circles, ranging from the Robo+ism robotics team, which won a special prize at the 2026 NHK student robot contest, to music, film and debate societies.学生可从 107 个获认可的社团中选择，从 2026 年 NHK 学生机器人大赛获特别奖的 「Robo+ism」机器人队，到音乐、电影与辩论社团。
• The seagull is the university's emblem, formalised in a 2007 symbol mark, and the festival committee also uses a seagull mascot known as Kamome Senpai.海鸥是该校的象征，2007 年确定为正式标志；校园祭实行委员会另使用名为「かもめ先輩」的海鸥吉祥物。
• The wooded campus of 12,253 trees, much of it planted under Miyawaki Akira's native-forest method, is used for botany field classes and for the annual eco-campus survey published by the university.校内 12,253 棵树多按宫胁昭的本土森林法种植，林地用于植物学野外课程，学校每年还发布生态校园调查报告。
• International student housing dates from 1981, when the international student hall opened, followed by an international exchange hall in 1982 that hosts social and language-exchange events.留学生住宿始于 1981 年启用的留学生会馆，1982 年又建成国际交流会馆，用于举办社交与语言交流活动。
• The Minato Mirai campus lets working managers take evening classes in the landmark tower, connecting the university's business school to the corporate district around Yokohama station.港未来校区让在职管理者在地标塔内上夜课，把该校商学院与横滨站周边的企业区连接起来。

Notable people

• Suzuki Tatsuji, first principal of the Yokohama Higher Technical School from 1920, gave the engineering tradition its philosophy of meikyo shizen and is commemorated by the monument at Tokiwadai.铃木达治自 1920 年起任横滨高等工业学校首任校长，为工学传统留下「名教自然」的办学理念，常盘台校园内的石碑即纪念他。
• Toyama Tamotsu, the second principal of the same school, consolidated its laboratory and workshop teaching in the 1920s and is named alongside Suzuki in the school's centenary history.富山保是同一所学校的第二任校长，1920 年代整顿了该校的实验与实习教学，在校史百年纪念册中与铃木达治并列。
• Nishizawa Ryue, who teaches at the Y-GSA architecture programme, shared the 2010 Pritzker Prize with Sejima Kazuyo for the SANAA partnership's lightweight, luminous buildings.西泽立卫在 Y-GSA 建筑项目任教，2010 年与妹岛和世以 SANAA 组合轻盈明亮的建筑作品共同获得普利兹克奖。
• Sejima Kazuyo, a guest professor at YNU, shared the 2010 Pritzker Prize and later directed the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the first woman to do so.妹岛和世是该校客座教授，2010 年共同获得普利兹克奖，后担任 2010 年威尼斯建筑双年展总策展人，是该展首位女性总策展人。
• Yamamoto Riken, a professor at YNU, received the 2024 Pritzker Prize for a body of work spanning public housing, schools and civic buildings in Japan, China and Europe.山本理显是该校教授，因在日本、中国与欧洲设计公共住宅、学校与公共建筑的作品，于 2024 年获得普利兹克奖。
• Akira Fujishima, a YNU graduate, discovered photocatalytic water splitting with Honda Kenichi in 1972, received the Japan Academy Prize and the Japan Prize in 2004, and was later president of Tokyo University of Science.藤岛昭毕业于该校，1972 年与本多健一发现光催化分解水，2004 年获日本学士院奖与日本国际奖，后任东京理科大学校长。
• Takuzo Aida, a YNU engineering graduate, received the Japan Academy Prize in 2018 for his work on supramolecular polymers and high-water-content hydrogels.相田卓三毕业于该校工学部，因在超分子聚合物与高含水水凝胶方面的研究，于 2018 年获日本学士院奖。
• Shunji Iwai, the film director known for Love Letter and All About Lily Chou-Chou, studied at YNU, as did Koshi Inaba, lead singer of the rock duo B'z.以《情书》与《关于莉莉周的一切》闻名的导演岩井俊二曾就读于该校；摇滚组合 B'z 主唱稻叶浩志也是校友。
• Hidetoshi Nishijima, the actor known for Drive My Car and the television series Oshin, graduated from YNU, where he was a member of the drama club.出演《驾驶我的车》与电视剧《阿信》的演员西岛秀俊毕业于该校，在校期间参加戏剧社。
• Sumio Mabuchi, a graduate who served as Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in 2010 and 2011, is one of several YNU alumni in national politics.马渊澄夫毕业于该校，2010 至 2011 年任国土交通大臣，是该校进入国家政界的多位校友之一。
• Nagasu Kazuji, a YNU graduate, served as governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from 1975 to 1995, winning five consecutive terms, and later sat in the House of Councillors.长洲一二毕业于该校，1975 至 1995 年连任五届神奈川县知事，后当选参议院议员。
• Masami Iijima, a YNU economics graduate, became president of Mitsui and Co. in 2015, one of many alumni who have led Japanese trading houses and manufacturers.饭岛彰己毕业于该校经济学部，2015 年出任三井物产社长，是该校众多领导日本商社与制造企业的校友之一。