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Meijo University

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Meijo University is a private university in Japan whose main campus is in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, with two other campuses in Nagoya. Its name comes from the abbreviated form of Nagoya Castle. A predecessor school was founded by Juichi Tanaka in May 1926 and the institution was chartered as a university in 1949; it is described as the largest university in the Chukyo Metropolitan Area. Its faculty has included Nobel laureates, among them Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in physics in 2014 and Akira Yoshino in chemistry in 2019, and as of 2021 two of its faculty members were Nobel laureates.

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Its main campus is in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture
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"established": 1926
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Meijo University (Wikipedia)
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    Its main campus is in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture
  • In Group: South and East Asian Universities, Lead
    is a private university in Japan
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