University of Tsukuba

About the organization

The University of Tsukuba is a national university founded in October 1973 and set in the new Tsukuba Science City on the basis of the older Tokyo University of Education. Its aim is to contribute to the promotion of scientific research and cultural exchanges. While many Japanese universities have too often tended to remain cloistered in their own narrow and specialized fields, the University of Tsukuba decided from its inception to be different. To this end, it defined a new concept of education and research.