Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu Campus

The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) is a distinguished university in Japan dedicated to science and technology. TUAT focuses on agriculture and engineering that form the foundation of industry, and promotes education and research fields that incorporate them.

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology was established in 1949 and its history traces back over. more than 130 years to the roots of its predecessor organization’s foundation in 1874. The TUAT Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Engineering respectively originated with the Agricultural Education Center of the Naito-Shinjuku Branch Office of the Industrial Encouragement Department, Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Silkworm Disease Experimental Section, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce founded in 1877.

With this background, TUAT has developed as a unique science and technology institution based on agricultural science and engineering, two scientific fields that support the fundamentals of human society, agriculture and industry. Academic and research activities conducted at TUAT across a broad range of areas can contribute to constructing a secure and safe society and can create and develop new industries.

TUAT education and research aim to further pursue the truth based on free ideas and produces learned researchers, engineers and highly specialized professionals who uncompromisingly reflect on the influence science and technology have on the Earth, society and mankind. It is to this purpose that the university herein sets forth the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Charter as its principles and goals.

Due to rapid population increases and the accompanying surges in energy usage, our world is facing a variety of problems. Conversely, Japan's population is shrinking, and we are approaching an era with a superannuated society. To resolve the numerous challenges found both in Japan and around the world, we believe it is imperative to preserve the environment and ensure food safety as well as promote scientific and technological innovation. TUAT engages in research with a focus on three major keywords—the environment, energy and food—as well as research in peripheral domains.

Our graduate schools include the Institute of Agriculture, Institute of Engineering, Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, and Leading Graduate School, and our faculty members and graduate students cooperate to promote cutting-edge research. TUAT has long emphasized the importance of collaboration between industry and academia, and focuses on implementing practical science. The ratio of external funding in our overall budget is one of the nation’s highest, and TUAT also maintains high figures for the number of collaborative research projects and research funds per faculty member.

We naturally put great effort into education, aiming to produce world-class graduates, and our programs are designed to cultivate talented individuals who possess both deep expertise and a broad knowledge base. In addition to supporting a variety of educational activities for students, TUAT provides extensive aid to students studying overseas and those engaged in collaborative research. TUAT has concluded academic exchange agreements with over eighty leading universities outside Japan. TUAT welcomes superior international students and researchers with the aim of enriching education and research through global exchange. To ensure the high quality of our educational programs, we will continue to promote reform and innovation to make our university even better.

We will utilize our characteristics and expertise in the key academic fields of agriculture and engineering to enhance the university and promote innovation that generates fresh discoveries and unique knowledge. A great many challenges lie ahead, but if TUAT faculty and students come together as one to take on these challenges, harness the knowledge we have accumulated, and come up with new ideas, we will surmount them. TUAT will continue to move forward to enrich Japan and the world and create a brighter society.

The rapid expansion and deepening of knowledge and the profound transformation of technologies and social systems they inspired are among the major factors characterizing the 20th century. Today, in the 21st century, such changes not only continue to occur but seem to accelerate. The production and transfer of the highly sophisticated knowledge (academic and research) have not only come to possess an unprecedentedly large significance for individuals, communities and nations, but have also become indispensable in cultural, economic and environmentally sustainable developments throughout society. Amid this, universities play a central role in academic and cultural developments through their leading-edge academic and research activities. Their presence and role as leaders of such developments are ever-more important.