Takushoku University

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 Duke Taro Katsura (1848–1913). 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.

Takushoku University is a leading university of security studies in Japan. The current chancellor is a former Minister of Defense, Satoshi Morimoto. Past chancellors include former prime ministers, such as Taro Katsura and Yasuhiro Nakasone.

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

Takashoku University was the second best university in Japan, after Tokyo University, through the end of World War II. After the war, the university was dissolved by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers due to its strong support for Japanese militarism. It was then renamed as Kōryō University (紅陵大学; Kōryō Daigaku). It reverted to its original name in 1952.

Notable facts

 * Takushoku University is a leading university of national security in Japan.
 * The current chancellor is a former Minister of Defense, Satoshi Morimoto. Past chancellors include former prime ministers, such as Taro Katsura and Yasuhiro Nakasone.
 * Takushoku University is the only university in Japan to be home to a think tank (the Institute of World Studies) for international relations and security.
 * Margaret Thatcher received her honorary doctorate degree at this university.
 * The Faculty of Political Science and Economics is the third oldest in the country after Waseda and Meiji universities.



Faculties
• Commerce

• Political Science and Economics

• Foreign Languages

• International Studies

• Engineering

Graduate schools
• Economics

• Commerce

• Engineering

• Language Education

• International Cooperation Studies

• Local Government

Sports
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. The university's karate club was founded around 1924 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. The athletics club was founded in 1921. It has participated in the Hakone Ekiden 42 times as of 2021.

Alumni
• Takahashi, Katsutaro (1941-1991), Shotokan karate master

• Asai, Tetsuhiko (1935–2006), Shotokan karate master

• Ayukawa, Tetsuya (1919-2002), critic and novelist

• Enoeda, Keinosuke (1935–2003), Shotokan karate master

• Eto, Batara (1979–), software engineer

• Asano, Shiro (1939–), Shotokan karate master

• Fujino, Maiko (1983–), swimmer

• Fujiwara, Arata (1981–), marathon runner

• Funago,Yasuhiko (1957–), politician

• Higaonna, Morio (1938–), Goju-ryu karate master

• Honaga, Norio (1955–), wrestler

• Inoue, Naoya (1993–), professional boxer

• Inoue, Nissho (1887–1967), radical Buddhist preacher and terrorist

• Imamura, Tomio (1958–),  master of Shotokan karate

• Iwaki, Nobuko (1946–), politician

• Kanazawa, Hirokazu (1931–2019), Shotokan karate master

• Kawase, Kota (1992–), football player

• Kawasoe, Masao (1945–), Shotokan karate master

• Kawasoe, Norio (1951–2013), Shotokan karate master

• Kawawada, Minoru (1952–),Shotokan karate master

• Kimura, Masahiko (1917–1993), judo master

• Kobayashi, Fumikazu (1978–), athlete

• Kobayashi, Yu (1987–), football player

• Kuramoto, Koji (1951–), judo master

• Kurumizawa, Koshi (1925–1994), writer

• Maeda, Shinzo (1922–1998), landscape photographer

• Masudayama Yasuhito (1951–), sumo wrestler

• Mori, Masataka (1932–2018), Shotokan karate master

• Mori, Mucha (1988–), basketball player

• Moriyama, Mirai (1984–), film and television actor

• Munakata, Koju (1967–), basketball coach

• Murakami, Kazunari (1973–), mixed martial artist

• Nagai, Akio (1942–), Shotokan karate master

• Nagano, Ai (1974–), voice actress

• Nagano, Mamoru (1960–), manga artist

• Naka, Tatsuya (1964–), Japan Karate Association manager

• Nakamori, Daisuke (1987–), football player

• Nakamoto, Kentaro (1982–), long-distance runner

• Nakayama, Masatoshi (1913–1987), Shotokan karate master

• Nishiyama, Hidetaka (1928–2008), Shotokan karate master

• Ochi, Hideo (1940–), Shotokan karate master

• Okazaki, Teruyuki (1931–2020), Shotokan karate master

• Okuyama, Takemasa (1944–), Shotokan karate master

• Onoda, Kazuo (1900-1983), freestyle swimmer

• Onoda, Kimi (1982-), politician

• Onodera, Tatsuya (1987–), football player

• Osaka, Yoshiharu (1947–), instructor of Shotokan karate

• Oyama, Masutatsu (1923–1994), Kyokushin karate master

• Rogers, Doug (1941–2020), Olympic judo competitor from Canada

• Royal Kobayashi (1949–), junior featherweight boxer

• Ryūkō Gō (1971–), sumo wrestler

• Uriu,Sadamu (1929–), Shotokan karate master

• Saito,Takako (1983–), female wrestler

• Saruta, Hironori (1982–), football player

• Shioda, Gozo (1915–1994), aikido master

• Shiina, Katsutoshi (1961–),   master of Shotokan karate

• Sione Vatuvei (1983–), footballer

• Sudo, Genki (1978–), mixed martial arts competitor and politician

• Sugimoto, Makoto (1987–), football player

• Suzuki, Muneo (1948–), politician

• Suzuki, Yasuhiro (1984–), boxer

• Takahashi, Ken (1969–), baseball player

• Takahashi, Mai (1984–), actress and model

• Takahashi, Satoshi (1968–),  instructor of Shotokan karate

• Takatani, Sosuke (1989–), wrestler

• Taniyama, Takuya (1965–),  instructor of Shotokan karate

• Tokoro, George (1955–),comedian, TV personality, singer-songwriter

• Tokuhisa, Takashi (1947–), Shotokan karate master

• Terada Kiyoyuki (1922–2009), aikido master

• Tochinonada, Taiichi (1974–), sumo wrestler

• Tokoro, George (1955–), television personality

• Tsukii, Junna (1991-), Filipino-Japanese karateka

• Uchiyama, Takashi (1979–), super featherweight boxer

• Watanabe, Hideo (1934–), politician

• Watanabe, Hiroyuki (1955–2022), television actor

• Yaegashi,Akira (1983–), minimumweight boxer

• Yonemitsu, Tatsuhiro (1986–), wrestler

• Yumoto, Shinichi (1984–), wrestler

• Kawase, Kota (1992-), footballer