The books lost included the Hoshino Library ( 星野文庫, Hoshino bunko), a collection of about 10,000 books. In September 1923, an earthquake and the following fires destroyed about 750,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. It was renamed "the Imperial University ( 帝國大學, Teikoku daigaku)" in 1886, and then Tokyo Imperial University ( 東京帝國大學, Tōkyō teikoku daigaku) in 1897 when the Imperial University system was created. The university was chartered by the Meiji government in 1877 under its current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine, various traditional scholars and modern learning. įaculty of Law building in 1902, before its destruction by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake As of 2021, University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include seventeen Prime Ministers, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist. It is considered to be the most selective and prestigious university in Japan. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. In particular, the number of privately funded international students, who account for more than 80%, has increased 1.75 times in the 10 years since 2010, and the university is focusing on supporting international students. UTokyo has ten faculties, 15 graduate schools and enrolls about 30,000 students, about 4,200 of whom are international students. Established in 1877, the university is the first Imperial University and currently selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government. This story corrects that the princess gave up her royal status, not the throne.The University of Tokyo ( 東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku), abbreviated as Todai ( 東大, Tōdai) or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. “Marriage is that decision needed for us to live on, staying true to our hearts.” “He is someone I cannot do without,” she said. In announcing their marriage, the former princess, a museum curator, made her choice clear. They met while attending Tokyo’s International Christian University a decade ago. in September, the couple was reunited for the first time in three years. That issue was recently settled, according to Kyodo news service. Mako is the daughter of the emperor’s younger brother, and her 15-year-old brother is expected to eventually be emperor.Ĭomplicating the former princess’s marriage, announced in 2017, was a financial dispute involving Kei Komuro’s mother. Only male royals have household names, while female imperial family members have only titles and must leave if they marry commoners. Mako’s loss of royal status comes from the Imperial House Law, which allows only male succession. The family holds no political power but serves as a symbol of the nation, attending ceremonial events and visiting disaster zones, and remains relatively popular. His father was the emperor under whom Japan fought in World War II. The negative media coverage surrounding Mako’s marriage gave her what palace doctors described last month as a form of traumatic stress disorder.įormer Emperor Akihito, the father of the current emperor, was the first member of the imperial family to marry a commoner.
Masako often suffered mentally in the cloistered, regulated life of the imperial family. Mako is the niece of Emperor Naruhito, who also married a commoner, Masako. Speculation ranged from whether the couple could afford to live in Manhattan to how much money Kei Komuro would earn and if the former princess would end up financially supporting her husband. But Mako is the first to have drawn such a public outcry, including a frenzied reaction on social media and in local tabloids. Other princesses have married commoners and left the palace. Several return to live in Fukushima's last deserted town