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24 unusual facts about Keio University


2007–08 Berlitz Japan strike

Professor Gerald McAlinn of Keio Law School also said it was very unusual for a company to choose to sue workers on the grounds that the strike was illegal.

Akihiko Noro

A native of Iitaka, Mie, he attended Keio University for undergraduate study and received a master's degree from it.

Chutisant Kerdvibulvech

He graduated with a Bachelors of Engineering (Honours) from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and was awarded a Master of Science in Engineering and a Ph.D. by Keio University, Japan, all in computer engineering.

École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

Hermann Simon

His academic career led him to numerous guest professorships at international universities: Simon was a visiting professor at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies in 1979, at the Keio University in Tokyo in 1983 and at Stanford University in 1984.

Hiroshi Nakai

A graduate of Keio University he was elected for the first time in 1976 after an unsuccessful run in 1972.

Ichiro Aisawa

A native of Mitsu District, Okayama and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986.

James Cousins

He spent most of the rest of his life in the sub-continent, apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Keio University in Tokyo and another lecturing in New York.

John Henry Wigmore

After teaching law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892), he was the dean of Northwestern Law School (1901 to 1929).

Koichi Yamamoto

A native of Uwajima, Ehime and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to his one term in the assembly of Aichi Prefecture in 1991 and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993.

Lionel W. McKenzie

McKenzie has been the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, election to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978, the Order of the Rising Sun in 1995 and honorary doctorates from Keio University in 1998 and Kyoto University in 2004.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1968 and 1970, and his Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974.

Max Planck Florida Institute

He has a PhD in Physics from Keio University Graduate School of Science and Technology in Yokohama, Japan.

Mozilla Japan

The organization is run by its board of directors, which is made up of Hideo Aiso of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hideyuki Tokuda of Keio University, Nobuo Kita, Hideki Sunahara of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Satoko Takita (chair) and Joichi Ito of the Mozilla Foundation.

Ned Goodwin

He was the host of a Japanese television show on wine, Vintage (2000) and was a guest-lecturer on wine marketing at Keio University (2002-2004).

Olivier Boulay

He became a professor at Keio University in Tokyo in 2009, and was named Vice President of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Center of China, which opened new premises in Beijing in July 2011 where he is responsible for electric car design development for the joint venture with BYD.

Robert M. Hayes

He was visiting professor at Loughborough University, Strossmayer University, University of New South Wales, Khazar University, Keio University, University of LIS in Tsukuba Science City (Japan), Nankai University, University of Illinois, and University of Washington.

Sadahiko Hirose

He received both undergraduate and master's degrees from Keio University.

Sciences Po

At the undergraduate level, Sciences Po also offers a dual degree program with the School of General Studies at Columbia University, University College London, Keio University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of British Columbia.

Susumu Tachi

Susumu Tachi (born January 1, 1946) is a professor of Graduate School of Media Design at Keio University and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

The pen is mightier than the sword

In its Latinized form, Calamus Gladio Fortior, it is the motto of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

Tigarah

The same year that she entered Keio University in Tokyo to contemplate a career as an ambassador, Tigarah found Baile Funk through her Brazilian friends in Tokyo and began to rap and record on her own.

Tōru Shōriki

In 1942, he received his degree from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University.

Yuzaburo Mogi

Mogi obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Keio University in 1958 and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.


Akihisa Nagashima

From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C. After coming back to Japan, he taught as a Professional Lecturer at Keio University's Graduate School of Law from 2003 to 2007.

Akira Tohei

For the next eight years Tohei, in addition to his teaching at the headquarters, was also an instructor at Asia University, Akita Economics University (now North Asia University), Keio University, Nihon Women's University, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Anna Ogino

She was naturalized during elementary school, and received her undergraduate and master's degree in French literature from Keio University, as well as receiving a scholarship to Paris-Sorbonne University to study Rabelais.

Annual BCI Research Award

Y. Hashimotoa, T. Otab, M. Mukainob, J.Ushibac (aDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Hokkaido, JP, bDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Asahikawa Medical University Hospital, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, JP, cDepartment of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, JP)

EPSCI

Some of the most recognizable partners for exchanges are McGill University, Emory University, Keio University, Queen's University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, IE Business School, UNC Chapel Hill, Bocconi Milan, and UNSW Sydney.

Hiroshi Ōnogi

Ōnogi attended Keio University in the same years as Macross character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto and creator Shōji Kawamori, both of whom he would first collaborate with in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

Japan 2022 FIFA World Cup bid

Japan's bidding team has enlisted pioneering technology scientist Jun Murai of Keio University in their plans to host the games.

Leonid Hurwicz

Hurwicz received six honorary doctorates, from Northwestern University (1980), the University of Chicago (1993), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1989), Keio University (1993), Warsaw School of Economics (1994) and Universität Bielefeld (2004).

Masaru Tomita

He received an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1985) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under Jaime Carbonell, and two other doctoral degrees in electronic engineering and molecular biology from Kyoto University (1994) and Keio University (1998).

Ronald Toby

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University and the University of Tokyo.

Shigeo Kobayashi

While attending Keio University, he studied acting as an apprentice of renowned kabuki actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke.

Takashi Gojobori

He has also been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), as a Visiting Professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology and as a Visiting Research Director of RIKEN.

Yoshihiro Tsurumi

Tsurumi has taught at Keio University, Queen's University in Canada, the Harvard Graduate School of Business, the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and continue to give special lectures and faculty seminars at universities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.