Q2:TODAI

TODAI stands for Tokyo Daigaku(University of Tokyo), which is the most famous university in Japan.

There are more than 700 Daigaku, which includes Universities and colleges, in Japan. Every prefecture has some national or public universities and almost all prefectures have some private universities or colleges. Especially, Tokyo has more than a hundred of Daigaku, including many famous and historic universities.

There are 4 very famous and historic universities in Japan, such as

University of Tokyo : a national university in Tokyo
Kyoto University : a national university in Kyoto
Waseda University : a private university in Tokyo
Keio University : a private university in Tokyo


University of Tokyo is well known by its difficult entrance examination which requires a exceptional intelligence and a great deal of effort. Those people who want to enter the university make a major effort to work harder than others, and almost all of them go to a cram school(JUKU), some of them attend several cram schools, or take correspondence courses.And the university is well known by its great graduates, including several Nobel Prize winners like Yasunari Kawabata and many previous prime ministers such as Eisaku Sato and Shigeru Yoshida.

Kyoto University is well known by its extremely high level of researches in biology, and it has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners such as Hideki Yukawa and Ryoji Noyori.

Waseda University has been producing many famous writers and athletes, including several gold medalists like Shizuka Arakawa.

Keio University is well known by its researches of the Internet. Professor Murai had built the Japanese base of the Internet. And the Keio University and the Waseda University are known as traditional rivals. They have been competing with each other in many areas, especially sports.


Japanese university(or college) entrance ratio is about 40%, and it has been rising lately. And the ratio will rise more and more because the population of Japan has been decreasing in recent years. Therefore, university students and graduates are not so uncommon nowadays.




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