Meiji Pharmaceutical University

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Meij Pharmaceutical university has a long history and tradition over 100 years since Shigenobu Onda founded it in 1902. Our University has produced competent and distinguished experts with leadership skills in a wide range of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.

We have offered excellent faculty, and distinctive curriculum, and state-of-the-art educational facilities as well. The faculty includes several alumni who work with students very closely and provide a great deal of support. We wish our students to study and spend their college life in our beautiful, spacious campus located in Tokyo's suburb, which brings a quiet and relaxing atmosphere.

Newly graduates of our University have maintained a highly successful rate in the National Exam for Pharmacists. With a consistently high job placement rate, our University is high in the ranks of the top pharmaceutical schools in Japan.

The library is equipped with 264 seats and provides open-shelf services where all users can browse freely. Current holdings include 140,000 books, 114 domestic and 139 overseas scientific journals. An audiovisual room and a group study room are equipped within the library so that students can use them for those purposes. The library provides 3 PCs exclusively for searching data, 6 PCs in the audiovisual room, and 20 PCs in a self-study room located on the second floor. Wireless local area network(Wireless LAN)is also provided and enables students' laptops in the library.

The center for Instrumental analysis was founded in April 1971 for "contributions to the process of educational research of Meiji Pharmaceutical University with doing the administration, management of the joint-use Instruments for educational research."

Facilities: It is located on the first floor of the research ridges and the fourth floor. The floorage is about 790 m2. Instruments: FT NMR spectrometer (270, 300, 400, 500 MHz), GC mass spectrometer, elemental analyzer, protein sequencer, amino acid analyzer.

The Computer Assisted Learning Laboratory room (CALL Room) houses 70 computers connected to the university LAN. The room is also equipped with Language Lab devices such as audio and video cassette recorders/players, laser disk player, etc. From the server computer, teachers can control each computer in this room, monitoring the work being done by individual students or operating the student computers by remote control.

The University provides more practical education in classes or seminars for information processing practice, foreign languages (English and German), medicinal drug-related information, statistics, etc., by making full use of specialist software, the Internet, and a VOD (video on demand) system.

There are various plants, including original plants of herbal medicine listed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, that have been planted and displayed in the Medicinal Plant Garden. The primary educational purpose of the Garden is to have students learn the history of pharmaceutical sciences through lectures and hands-on practice. Meanwhile, medicinal plants and herbal medicine are deeply ingrained within our daily life, especially the recent popularity of healthy living has boosted the interests of Kampo(Japanese herbal medicine) or medicinal plants, from the viewpoint of self-medication and preventive medicine. We open the Garden to the public to promote the spread of knowledge about traditional medicine. Japan Pharmacists Education Center has promoted "Training courses for certification in the use of Chinese herbal medicine and natural drugs," one of the center's continuing education program. Meiji Pharmaceutical Medicinal Plant Garden is among those cooperating gardens to accept trainees for practical observation of the course.

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