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wartime
During World War II, many schools' years of attendance were restricted because of the war, but not the normal school. The administration at that time gave preferential treatment to the normal school because of its emphasis on the students of the normal school, which was the core of the educational system. In addition, like medical undergraduates, students of the Normal School were also exempted from the mobilization of students.However, as the war situation worsened, the preferential policies were no longer in place, and when the direction of the educational content was to "increase the war effort," the number of classes could be changed and education at the Normal School was virtually halted.

liberal arts
Tokyo Gakugei University was formally chartered as a university in 1949 when four teacher training institutions (Tokyo First (1943~1949), Second (1943~1949), Third (1943~1949) Normal School and Tokyo Youth Normal School (1944~1949)) in Tokyo from the pre-war era were merged. In 1949, Japanese normal schools were elevated to universities of liberal arts, following the American model. The term “gakugei(学芸)” is a translation of “liberal arts” in English. A Graduate School of Education (master's program) was established to provide education and research in a wide range of fields, training competent educators equipped with a high level of specialized knowledge and skills. In 1996 the United Graduate School of Education (doctoral course) was established jointly with Saitama University, Chiba University, and Yokohama National University as an inter university graduate school for the purpose of developing researchers mainly in the field of curriculum studies. In 2004, with changes in the nation's higher education policies, the university was incorporated as a national university and established its present administrative structure.

campus
In 1949, approximately three Normal Schools were merged to form Tokyo Gakugei University, which continues this day. The three schools were Tokyo First Normal School, Tokyo Second Normal School, and Tokyo Third Normal School. Tokyo First Normal School was established from Tokyo Prefectural Aoyama Normal School, Tokyo Second Normal School from Tokyo Prefectural Toshima Normal School, and Tokyo Third Normal School from Tokyo Prefectural Oizumi Normal School.

The historical reason why Tokyo Gakugei University only had a campus in Koganei was due to the air raid on the campus in Ikebukuro. Due to the efforts to save lives and carry important documents, there were no casualties among the staff and students, and important documents such as school registers were spared from being destroyed by fire.

When the school was rebuilt, it was natural to consider rebuilding the campus in Ikebukuro, but it was not easy to construct a school building in the immediate aftermath of the war, and the first priority was to find a school building that would be open for classes. Thus, the decision was made to move to the site of the former Army's Third Technical Research Institute in Koganei.