Seikei University
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Overview
The university was established as a university in 1949 under the new School Education Law. Its predecessor dates back to 1906 and was supported by Koyata Iwasaki, the fourth head of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Before World War II, the institution was financially supported by donations from Mitsubishi Group. After World War II, it became independent from Mitsubishi Group after dissolution of the zaibatsu. However, Seikei University still has close connections with the Mitsubishi Group. This university has many graduates from families of noble or business backgrounds.
The university is one of the Tokyo Four Universities (Seikei, Musashi, Seijo, Gakushuin), the grouping of universities that evolved from pre-war high schools.
Organization
Undergraduate Faculties
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Science and Technology
Graduate schools
- Graduate School of Economics
- Graduate School of Business
- Graduate School of Law and Political Science
- Graduate School of Humanities
- Graduate School of Science and Technology
- Law School
Research institutes
- Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
Academic rankings
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Alumni rankings
École des Mines de Paris ranks Seikei University as 89th in the world in 2009 (89th in 2008) in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies. (The university is also ranked 9th in Japan.)[2][3][4]
Attached school
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- Seikei Senior High School
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- Seikei high school has an exchange study program with St. Paul's School and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Cowra High School (since 1970) in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
- There is a study abroad program with Choate Rosemary Hall, Pembroke College, Cambridge and University of California, Davis.
- Seikei Junior High School
- Seikei Elementary School
Notable alumni
- Shinzō Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007, 2012–2020), former President of Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
- Keiji Furuya, Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
- Shunpei Tsukahara, Japanese politician
- Mamoru Takano, Japanese politician of the Democratic Party
- Takao Sato, Japanese politician
- Izumi Kobayashi, Secretary of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
- Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, President of Fuji Heavy Industries
- Takashi Kusama, President of Mizuho Securities
- Susumu Shirayama, President of Seibu Railway
- Toshio Mita, Chairman of Chubu Electric Power
- Masahiro Ouga, President of Shogakukan
- Shiro Kikuchi, President of Asahi Soft Drinks
- Natsuo Kirino, novelist (Naoki Prize winner)
- Ira Ishida, novelist (Naoki Prize winner)
- Mariko Koike, novelist (Naoki Prize winner)
- Yuichi Takai, novelist (Akutagawa Prize winner)
- Aya Takashima, TV announcer
- Kiichi Nakai, actor
- Shingo Tsurumi, actor
- Kei Yamamoto, actor
- Luke Takamura, musician and songwriter
- Tadashi Nakamura, football player
- Hiroshi Kazato, racecar driver
- Maria Kamiyama, 2011 Miss Universe Japan
- Kwon Ri-se, 2009 Miss Korea contestant and Ladies' Code member
- Wataru Ishizaka, politician and social worker
Study abroad agreement
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See also
- Osaka Seikei University, despite naming, has no ties with the institution.
- Love Live!, university was used as a setting of Otonokizaka High School
References
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- Universities and colleges established in 1906
- Seikei University
- Private universities and colleges in Japan
- Mitsubishi
- 1906 establishments in Japan
- Musashino, Tokyo