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Takushoku University

拓殖 大学
Onshi Memorial Hall, Takushoku University
Former names	Taiwan Association School, Oriental Association Vocation School
Type	Private
Established	1900; 124 years ago (1900)
Location	Tokyo , Japan
Campus	Bunkyō, Hachiōji
Website	www.takushoku-u.ac.jp english.takushoku-u.ac.jp

Takushoku University (拓殖 大学; Takushoku Daigaku, abbreviated as 拓大 Takudai) is a private university in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1900 by Prince (title for a Duke at that time) Taro Katsura (1848–1913).^[1] It has two campuses: the main campus in the Bunkyō Ward and a satellite campus in Hachiōji. Takushoku University has five faculties: Commerce, Political Science and Economics, Foreign Languages, International Studies, and Engineering.^[1]

Takushoku University is a leading university of security studies in Japan.^[2][3] The last chancellor was a former Minister of Defense, Satoshi Morimoto. Some chancellors such as Taro Katsura and Yasuhiro Nakasone were appointed to the prime minister.

Originally, Takushoku University was named the Taiwan Association School,^[4] and was founded to produce graduates to contribute to the development of Taiwan. In 1907, it was renamed the Oriental Association Vocational School.^[4] In 1918, it adopted its present name of Takushoku University.^[4] Literally, "Takushoku" means "development and industrialization" as well as "colonization", because Japan had overseas colonies like Taiwan, South Sakhalin, and Korea and was entrusted with South Pacific Islands to industrialize at that time.

Takashoku University as a unique colonial institute made itself one of the best private universities in Japan after Imperial Universities such as Tokyo University till the end of World War II. It kept to be a peace-loving patriot, during the war by appointing General Kazushige Ugaki as its Chancellor, who was the enemy of Imperial Way Faction(military expansionist), and then Mr. Hiroshi Shimomura, who was the president of Cabinet Intelligence Bureau leading the Hirohito surrender broadcast. An affiliated judo master Tatsukuma Ushijima and his disciple Masahiko Kimura of the university even planned to assassinate the prime and military minister Hideki Tojo in 1941. After the war, Japan gave up its whole colonies, the university changed its name to Kōryō University (紅陵大学; Kōryō Daigaku) and was led by Torajiro Takagaki, the president of Japan association of monetary economics. Then it reverted to its traditional name in 1952. Many graduates went to Brazil, some to Indonesia and other South Asian countries in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1970s and 80s it enhanced its campus towards Hachioji and established two more faculties. In 2001 it celebrated its 100-year anniversary in presence of Emperor Akihito. It opened another faculty for world development and international security in Hachioji. It finds realizing SDGs (sustainable development goals) as its mission in the 21st century.

• Takushoku University is a leading university of national security in Japan.^[2][3]
• The last chancellor was a former Minister of Defense, Satoshi Morimoto. Past chancellors include former prime ministers, such as Taro Katsura and Yasuhiro Nakasone.^[5][6]
• Takushoku University is the unique university in Japan to study geopolitics (the Institute of World Studies) for international relations and security.
• Margaret Thatcher received her honorary doctorate degree at this university.^[7]
• The Faculty of Political Science and Economics is the third oldest in the country after Waseda and Meiji universities.

Takushoku University was responsible for training many of Japanese local and colonial administrators as well as overseas merchants. Several of these people who were karateka (practitioners of karate) took up administrative positions in the Japan Karate Association when it was founded in 1949.^[8] The university's karate club was founded around 1924^[9] and has produced many prominent karate instructors and competitors. The university also has a judo program, which produced a second-place result in a 1967 Japanese collegiate competition.^[10] The athletics club was founded in 1921.^[11] It has participated in the Hakone Ekiden 42 times as of 2021.^[12]

• [1] (in English)
• Takushoku University Karate Club (in Japanese)
• Commemorative Photo-book 拓殖大学創立百周年記念写真集「雄飛」（2002年 3月30日発行） (in Japanese)

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