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Viscount Takeaki Enomoto founded Tokyo University of Agriculture (Tokyo NODAI), a cosmopolitan figure in modern Japan and a scientist who served as Minister of Education, Foreign Affairs, Post and Telecommunications, and Agriculture the Meiji Period. INITIALLY, Tokyo NODAI was established as the Department of Agriculture at the Ikueiko School of the Tokugawa Ikuei-kai Foundation in 1891. Today, it has grown into a full-scale agricultural university with two graduate schools, six undergraduate faculties with 22 departments, and a junior college with three departments conducting education and research across a wide range of areas, including bioscience, food science, environmental science, health science, energy, and regional regeneration. Going forward, Tokyo NODAI will continue to develop human resources with an "agricultural spirit" that values life in order to fulfill our mission to contribute to the world with morality, for the happiness of humanity, based on "Return Man to the Farm," the educational principle of our University, and "Practical Science," our approach to teaching and research. What is "Practical Science" at the time of the foundation of the Tokyo University of Agriculture? "Practical Science" is the school motto advocated by the first President YOKOI Tokiyoshi. Its original fundamental principle lies in the rational spirit in which problems are totally grasped and analyzed considering diversified conditions and eventually solved through pursuing theories and means. "Practical Science" is a multi-disciplinary science, and the fundamental principle is "Return man to the farm". Agriculture science is the wisdom of agriculture. The inductive approach is symbolized by the words, "Ask rice plant about rice plant, ask farmers about agriculture". Introduction of a rural idea to the city and creation of cultural and creative agricultural village is aimed. The views of self-sufficiency in food production and maintaining sustainable land are emphasized. Tokyo University of Agriculture celebrated the 125th anniversary in 2016. With such a background, the new library opened in April 2014. The library holds a collection of approximately 550,000 items. We are unique among university libraries as 80% of the holdings deal specifically with agricultural sciences. We are also well known for our collection of classic and rare books on agriculture dating back to the Edo period's days. The new library was established to embody the University's identity. The library building is next to the forested campus garden, which is regarded as a symbolic space as our University attaches weight to co-existing with nature. The building has been designed in the image of a giant tree standing powerfully in the garden. Each floor of the library is furnished with bookshelves made from domestic timber. Users can see the trees of the garden down below from the library. These offer users a comfortable study environment and may help to induce a feeling of harmony with nature. At the Extension Center, we provide a variety of learning opportunities geared toward the needs of society. We also publish and publicize scholarly information from many different areas and scopes offered at Tokyo NODAI and research and education outcomes at our institution. View full university

"Let our dreams grow wings" is the title of our school song. The first verse reads: "With a spirit toward the future, we will learn of the immortal soul. Radiating individuals' personalities, we will try to gain deeper wisdom together with friends for tomorrow. Having the passions of youth in our hands, we will grow the wings of dreams, the wings of dreams." This song was written to represent Tokyo City University when the university group was formed in April 2009. The song was created to embrace the vision and spirit of the university. The university evolves as a place where every student, instructor, and graduate cherishes and realizes their ambitions. We are now advancing reforms based on our medium- and long-term plan, Action Plan 2030. The plan clarifies the university's ideals for the 90th anniversary of its founding in 2019 and on the 100th in 2029. It shows how to implement reforms in education, research, management, and the campus. The plan's targets are to become a prominent university with a strong presence in Tokyo, a cosmopolitan city, and to rank within the top 300 of the world's best universities. Universities are education and research institutions responsible for encouraging students to dream and develop their abilities to fulfill those dreams. The scale of educational effects should be how well the students have improved their ability to enter the school and graduate. From such a viewpoint, we intend to be recognized as the best value university. Tokyo City University is promoting human resources development with the practical ability to play active roles in the world. In 2015, we will start TAP (Tokyo City University Australia Program) in Perth, Australia, for new students. The new program aims to cultivate students as real international personnel through an original curriculum designed in collaboration with Edith Cowan University in Perth. In the program, 200 students will stay in Perth for five months. Besides the program, we will prepare various programs for developing global human resources, such as international internships and study of foreign languages abroad. If you hope to be an international person, Tokyo City University is the perfect place. The university is located in a perfect environment very close to the center of Tokyo, a cosmopolitan city. Let us visualize your dreams and make them come true on this campus. Let our dreams grow wings, think globally, and act locally! Libraries are established in each of the three campuses. The Setagaya Campus Library has about 270,000 books, mainly various engineering books, including architecture-related rare books. Yokohama has about 110,000 books/documents, mainly on the environment and information, and Todoroki has about 170,000 books, including those on urban issues, child education, and literature. All three libraries are fully equipped with advanced IT systems and are efficiently used by our students and faculty members, and researchers inside and outside Japan. Additionally, it is also one of our features that we reflect learners' needs, for example, by conducting the Book Selecting Tour with students. View full university