Toho University

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Toho University 東邦大学


Motto	自然・生命・人間 (Nature・Life・Man)
Established	1925
Type	Private
Endowment	N/A
Chancellor	Tsugunori Aoki
Faculty	705（2005）
Staff	3,365（2005）
Students	4,533（2005）
Undergraduates	4,079（2005）
Postgraduates	454（2005）
Doctoral students	154（2005）
Professional students	300（2005）
Location	Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Address	5-21-16 Omorinishi,Ota-ku,Tokyo 143-8540,Japan
Telephone	+81-3-3762-4151
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.toho-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

Toho University (東邦大学) is a university in Tokyo, Japan. Drs. Yutaka and Susumu Nukada founded the Imperial Women's Medical College at Omori,Tokyo, the location of the Faculty of Medicine at present, with their own money in 1925 and then they established the Imperial Women's Medical and Pharmaceutical College and the Imperial Women's College of Science. They aimed at improving scientific education for women in such fields as medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and science while developing healthy and humanistic mind in them. After World War II the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Science moved to Funabashi, Chiba. With the reform of the Japanese school system in 1950, Toho University became a coeducational institution, focusing on natural sciences, that had the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science.