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32 unusual facts about Waseda University


Baseball in Japan

Waseda University was one of the first teams to cross the ocean to improve their skills; in 1905, the Japanese government funded the Waseda team’s tour of the United States, where it played college teams from around the country.

Cai Pei

Cai Pei went to study to Japan, and graduated from the Department of Law, Waseda University.

Campbell Cavasso

In his junior year, he spent two semesters as a foreign exchange student at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

Cay Van Ash

Cay Van Ash (born 1918 in Sussex, England; died in Paris in April 1994) was a Professor of English Literature at Waseda University in Japan and a writer.

Cheng Qian

However, as Yuan Shikai staged his coup to control the Republic, Cheng tried to revolt, but the failure prompted him to flee to Japan, where he entered the Kuomindang and the Waseda University.

Chiaki Hayashi

She received a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from Waseda University and a Master of Science in Business Journalism from Boston University.

Chung Laung Liu

He was a Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Li K. T. Honorary Chair Professor at National Central University.

Far Eastern Federal University

Internet videoconference partnership with Waseda University (WU), Tokyo, Japan, started in 2000, and was later extended to a large-scale 2002-2005 project.

FUJIC

Used extensively for two years at the Fuji factory in Odawara, it was given later to Waseda University before taking up residence in the National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo.

Gania Nishimura

He currently works also as Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia since June 2008 and visiting professor of Waseda University since April 2013 and visiting professor of Universitas Darma Persada since October 2013.

History of the Dylan programming language

Sep. 1993: Bachrach presents a High-Performance Dylan Implementation at the International Computer Music Conference at Waseda University.

Isshu Sugawara

A native of Nerima, Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the assembly of Nerima, Tokyo for the first time in 1991 where he served for two terms after an unsuccessful run in 1990.

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

Kan'ichi Asakawa

He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was a professor at Waseda University (1906–07); an instructor at Yale University (1907–10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910.

Kate Millett

Millett moved to Japan in 1961, where she taught English at Waseda University and pursued a career as a sculptor.

Katsuyuki Kiyomiya

He attended Waseda University and played rugby there and won the university championship when captain in his fourth year at the university.

Kazumi Tabata

Master Tabata went to Waseda University and started studying Shotokan style karate under Master Isao Obata, one of Master Gichin Funakoshi's first students and first chairman of the Japan Karate Association.

Khaemweset

The Waseda University expedition found during earlier excavations the remains of a monument, which may have been Khaemweset’s ‘ka-house’.

Kiwao Nomura

Nomura initially focused on an academic career: he studied Japanese and French literature, and taught for a number of years at various schools in Tokyo, including Meiji University and Waseda University.

Lee Eun-sang

He worked for Changshin School as a teacher for a time until he enrolled at Waseda University in Japan, majoring in history in 1926.

M. G. Sheftall

He holds Master's degrees from California State University and the University of Birmingham, and received his Ph.D in International Relations Studies from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Masayoshi Yoshino

A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Masumi Kuwata

On January 28, 2009, at age 40, he was accepted into the Graduate School of Sport Sciences of Waseda University, and on March 25, he graduated first on the list of this school.

The draft generated some controversy, since Kuwata had repeatedly expressed a desire to enter Waseda University, prompting other teams to refrain from picking him in the draft.

Nobutaka Tsutsui

A native of Nakakubiki District, Niigata and graduate of Waseda University he was elected for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party after an unsuccessful run in 1986.

Ryota Takeda

A native of Tagawa District, Fukuoka and graduate of Waseda University he was elected for the first time in 2003 after running unsuccessfully three times in 1993, 1996 and 2000.

Sharon Au

She left for Japan to further her studies in 2005 in the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo on a MediaCorp scholarship.

Sohibul Iman

He enrolled at the Bogor Agricultural University for 3 terms, until he received a scholarship and moved to Waseda University, Japan, where he earned the title Bachelor of Engineering and then the title Master of Engineering from Takushoku University and PhD from Graduate School of Science Knowledge, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).

Takayuki Masuda

In 1990 Masuda graduated from the faculty of commerce at Waseda University.

Thomas Taro Higa

Word spread and Professor Tadaoki Yamamoto, the Department Chairman of the Faculty of Science & Engineering at the Waseda University, came to meet Higa and asked him to come to Japan and study.

Tsutomu Ohshima

Ohshima began studying karate in 1948, while a student at Waseda University.

Yuichi Nakamaru

In April 2008, he entered Waseda University and majored in Human Environmental Sciences through the university's undergraduate correspondence course e-school.


Hideo Aragaki

Born in 1903 in Hida city, Gifu Prefecture, he graduated from the Departmnent of Political Economics, Waseda University and entered the Asahi Shimbun in 1926.

Kishibe Shigeo

He also lectured at numerous other universities, including Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Soai Women's University, Niigata University, Hirosaki University, and Waseda University.

Noriko Furuya

A native of Urawa, Saitama and graduate of Waseda University, she was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003.

Takashi Ishizeki

A native of Isesaki, Gunma and graduate of Waseda University, he worked at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications from 1994 to 1998, during which time he studied at the University of London.

Timon Screech

Since graduating from Harvard, he has been at SOAS; and he has also been visiting professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and guest researcher at Gakushuin University and Waseda University in Tokyo.