IMPERIAL UNIVEBSITY OF TOKYO. 



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vent of the 'black ships' of Commodore Perry, It may be of interest, 

 therefore, to some, to learn that in so remote a time as in the eighth 

 century a university had already been established' in Japan that in- 

 cluded such modern divisions as schools of medicine, ethics, mathe- 

 matics, history, and that some of the text-books employed at that remote 

 period dealt with such subjects as the diseases of women, materia 



Ground Plan of the University. 



medica and veterinary surgery, types of text-books which appear to 

 have been unknown in European countries until about one thousand 

 years later. 



Japanese higher education at the present day includes: (1) high 

 schools, of somewhat higher scope than the American high schools, 

 (2) higher normal schools for both sexes, (3) colleges of peers and 

 peeresses, (4) military and naval colleges at Tokyo and Etajima, (5) 

 a series of schools of technology and arts, including an academy of 

 music, (6) colleges of law, politics and literature in Tokyo and Kyoto, 

 (7) girls' university of Tokyo and (8) Imperial Universities of Tokyo 

 and of Kyoto. 



As the universities stand at the head of the educational system of 

 Japan, it may be well to describe their organization in some detail. 

 And I shall refer especially to the Tokyo Imperial University since 

 the second one is only recently founded (1897). 



