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Tokyo University of Science (東京理科大学 Tokyo Rika Daigaku, formerly "Science University of Tokyo") is a prestigious private university of Science and Technology in Japan. Rikadai(理科大) or Ridai(理大) is its short name. In addition, The Tokyo Academy of Physics ,the predecessor of TUS, appears in the foremost Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's work Botchan(坊っちゃん).

[ Last edited on 21st. Feb. 2006 by TUS Staff ]

History

It was founded in 1881 as The Tokyo Academy of Physics by 21 graduates of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (then the Imperial University) .In 1883 it was renamed the Tokyo University of Physics and in 1949 it became the Tokyo University of Science.

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