32-631: The Ryūgasaki Line ( 竜ヶ崎線 , Ryūgasaki-sen ) is a railway line operated by the Kantō Railway in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. It is a non-electrified line which connects Sanuki , on the Jōban Line , to Ryūgasaki , with one intermediate station at Ireji . The Ryuzaki Railway Co. opened the line on 14 August 1900 as a 762 mm ( 2 ft 6 in ) gauge steam-operated line. The line
64-437: A normal school established in 1872 to educate primary and secondary teachers. The school was promoted to a university in 1929, as Tokyo University of Literature and Science (東京文理科大学, Tōkyō Bunrika Daigaku ). In 1949, Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学, Tōkyō Kyōiku Daigaku ) was established under the post-war educational system , and most faculties and facilities were transferred to the new university. The old university
96-506: A Japanese railway corporation or company-related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of Tsukuba The University of Tsukuba ( 筑波大学 , Tsukuba daigaku ) is a national research university located in Tsukuba , Ibaraki , Japan. The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it
128-575: A bed suburb of Tokyo ( Tsukuba ). When many events are happening in Ibaraki, the company operates extra bus routes to Ibaraki Airport , Kashima Soccer Stadium and more. Tickets can be purchased in stores at Mito Station (Ibaraki) , Tsuchiura Station , Toride Station , Moriya Station , Tsukuba Station , Suigō-Itako Bus Terminal and more. Furthermore, there are ticket machines at the University of Tsukuba and Tsukuba Center . This article about
160-804: A bus company with coverage in the south and central Ibaraki and east Chiba . The bus department occupies 70% of benefit of the Kanto Railway. The company has ten offices and the service distance is 2,788.8 km. The bus department used to have vast bus routes, but some were discontinued after proving unprofitable. Currently, certain discontinued bus routes have been revived as community buses operated by subsidiary bus companies ( Kantetsu Green Bus , Kantetsu Purple Bus and Kantetsu Kankō Bus) in areas of Sakuragawa , Chikusei and more places. The company has coverage of many attractions ( Mount Tsukuba , Lake Kasumigaura , Kairakuen and so on), commercial facilities (Ami Premium Outlet, AeonMall Tsukuba and more), and
192-469: A campus outside Japan. Tsukuba is one of the leading research institutions in Japan. According to Thomson Reuters , Tsukuba is the 10th best research institutions among all the universities and non-educational research institutions in Japan. Weekly Diamond [ ja ] reported that Tsukuba has the 27th highest research standard in Japan in research fundings per researchers in COE Program . In
224-499: Is also accepting African students through the ABE initiative, which was initiated by Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe and is bringing 1,000 African graduate students to Japanese universities in five years from 2014. The University of Tsukuba is planning and leading Japan-Africa Academic Network (JAAN) initiative to bring together all the Japanese universities' resources for Africa and to deepen
256-621: Is reflected by the university's location in the heart of Tsukuba Science City, alongside over 300 other research institutions. The university counts among its faculty three Nobel laureates (two in Physics and one in Chemistry), and over 70 Olympic athletes. It has established interdisciplinary PhD programs in both Human Biology and Empowerment Informatics and the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, which were created through
288-407: Is regarded as a selective university, with the selectivity for its undergraduate programmes usually ranked amongst the top 20 in the country. The University of Tsukuba has been embroiled in a number of controversies during its relatively short existence. According to Debito Arudou , the university's dealings with foreign staff members has proven particularly controversial. Arudou notes that in 1985
320-542: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 's "Global 30" Project and the " Super Global University Project" (formally known as "Top Global University Project"). In the Super Global University Project, University of Tsukuba won Type A funding, which is for 13 elite Japanese universities to be ranked in the top 100 in global university rankings by 2023. Their initiative includes expanding
352-597: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 's competitive funding projects. Its Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction . Their founding philosophy states the University of Tsukuba is "a university which is open to all within and outside Japan." The university is also known for its internationalization efforts. It has won Japanese government funding projects for internationalization of Japanese universities, including
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#1733093829231384-691: The Graduate School of Library and Information – Media Studies were subsequently established. In April 2024, the university announced that it would open its first overseas campus, housing the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design, in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia, starting in September. The university is primarily focused on STEMM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine), physical education , and related interdisciplinary fields. This focus
416-531: The Keisei affiliated company Kashitetsu Bus ) were split from Kanto Railway. Mount Tsukuba Cable Car and Mount Tsukuba Ropeway were transferred to Keisei Electric Railway. Kanto Railway has had a 0.01% investment in Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company since 2001. The company operates the following two lines: The company manages the following four bus companies: Kanto Railway is also
448-593: The Ministry of Defense in December 2019. According to Alexandra Sakaki and Sebastian Maslow 'Illustrating a lack of consensus within the Japanese academic community...the university's official decision has triggered internal backlash and fierce criticism from academic and civic groups.' Indeed, the decision was heavily criticized by both the Science Council of Japan and Japanese academics. Critics were particularly dismayed by
480-602: The academic relationship between Japan and Africa. In May 2008, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development became an opportunity for the African Development Bank (AfDB) and universities in Japan to promote partnership on higher education, science and technology. Donald Kaberuka , the president of the AfDB, and the president of University of Tsukuba signed a memorandum of understanding during
512-428: The company has a bus department in Ibaraki Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture in Japan. This company was established as Joso Railway in 1913. In 1945, Joso Railway was merged into Joso-Tsukuba Railway with Tsukuba Railway. Joso-Tsukuba Railway was split into Kanto Railway in 1965, which merged with Ryugasaki Railway. Around 1980, Tsukuba Railway (which would be suspended) and Kashima Railway (which would be replaced by
544-496: The corresponding article in the Japanese Misplaced Pages This article about a Japanese railway line–related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kant%C5%8D Railway Kantō Railway ( 関東鉄道 , Kantō Tetsudō ) is a private railway company, which operates two lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway and other companies. Additionally,
576-428: The fact that this marked a complete u-turn in university policy – only one year earlier in December 2018, the university had issued a policy statement against military research on campus. The university met controversy again in 2020 when Nagata was re-elected as its president despite losing the faculty's ballot by almost two-thirds of the vote. Additionally, the president's selection committee decided to scrap limits on
608-594: The new university, the University of Tsukuba , was established by the government in 1973, and the first group of students were matriculated at the new campus in Tsukuba in April 1974. The old university was officially closed in 1978, with most of its assets and faculties transferred to the new university in Tsukuba. In October 2002, the University of Tsukuba merged with the University of Library and Information Science ( 図書館情報大学 ) . The School of Library and Information Science and
640-519: The number of courses and degree programs taught in English only, sharing faculty members with partner institutions such as National Taiwan University , University of Bordeaux , and University of California, Irvine to promote education and research collaboration, and establishing so-called "Course Jukebox System" which enables their and partner institutions' students to take partner institutions' courses as if they are at their original institution. In 2004,
672-535: The president's term of office allowing Nagata to remain in charge indefinitely. This created backlash among academic staff resulting in the genesis of a campaign against Nagata's presidency. In 2021, journalists discovered discrepancies in the number of international students that the university had reported to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Japanese University Rankings. The 2021 world rankings claimed 20% of
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#1733093829231704-461: The rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan. According to the Weekly Economist 's 2010 rankings, graduates from Tsukuba have the 64th best employment rate in 400 major companies in Japan. By contrast, the alumni of Tsukuba's average salary is very high with the 8th best in Japan, according to PRESIDENT, Inc. The University of Tsukuba
736-573: The same article, it's ranked 11th in the quality of education by GP (in Japanese) funds per student. It has a good research standard in Economics, as Research Papers in Economics ranked Tsukuba as the eighth best Economics research university in January 2011. Tsukuba's law school was ranked 19th in 2010 for its passing rate of the Japanese bar examination . Eduniversal ranked Tsukuba as seventh in
768-650: The second largest single campus in Japan. The university has a branch campus in Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo, offering graduate programs for working adults in the capital and managing K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university. Three Nobel Prize laurates have taught at the university, Leo Esaki , Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga . Apart from them, Satoshi Ōmura studied as an audit student. The University of Tsukuba can trace its roots back to Tokyo Higher Normal School ( 東京高等師範学校 , Tōkyō Kōtō Shihan Gakkō ) ,
800-399: The student body were international students positioning the university as one of the most diverse higher education institutions in the country, however, the Japanese rankings claimed that only 12.6% of the student body were international students. As a result, Times Higher Education launched an investigation and advised the university on its submission of data in the future. The erroneous data
832-527: The three-day event. In 2009, the University of Tsukuba participated in the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization 's (SEAMEO) affiliated member, and it has been cooperating in the development of education in the ASEAN region. The university is a member of AIMS program, which is to promote regional student mobility among the ASEAN and participated countries including Japan. As of August 2015,
864-559: The university decided to terminate the contracts of foreign teaching staff resulting in litigation being brought against the institution. An account of the university's poor treatment of and breaking of contractual obligations with foreign staff is also included in Ivan Hall's Cartels of the Mind . On 12 July 1991, the university became the site of a murder when the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , Hitoshi Igarashi ,
896-564: The university established the Alliance for Research on North Africa (ARENA) as an academic research center with the purpose of promoting comprehensive research concerning the North African Region through integration of humanities and sciences. Since then, ARENA has been expanding its research fields, and the university established a branch office in Tunis, Tunisia in 2006. The University of Tsukuba
928-505: The university has over 300 international inter-university agreements and 13 overseas offices in 12 countries, located in Brazil, China, Germany, France, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Tunisia, Taiwan, United States, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. In March 2023, the university announced the establishment of a new international campus in Malaysia, becoming the first Japanese public university to set up
960-622: Was regauged to 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) in July 1915. The company merged with the Kashima Sangu Railway Co. in 1944, which merged with the Kanto Railway Co. in 1965. Freight services ceased in 1971, the same year the line switched to driver-only-operation (in August 1971), becoming the first driver-only-operation line in Japan. This article incorporates material from
992-437: Was closed officially in 1962. When the plan was made to build an entirely new city dedicated to science and research and education in 1963, it was decided that the university was to be relocated to the new city as the hub for the research activities. This plan caused outrage amongst some students, and fierce student protests forced the university to cancel classes for a few months and even the admission process for 1969. Meanwhile,
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1024-459: Was killed in the context of the fatwas initiated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following the book's publication. Igarashi's murder case was closed in 2006 with no suspects having been brought to trial. Between 2019 and 2021, a number of controversies revolving around the university's president Kyosuke Nagata came to light. Under Nagata's leadership the university became the first institution of higher education to receive large scale funding from
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