Osaka University, officially renamed The University of Osaka (UOsaka) in April 2025, is a national research university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, tracing its roots to the Edo-era institutions Tekijuku (1838) and Kaitokudo (1724) before its formal establishment in 1931 as the sixth of Japan's Imperial Universities, with faculties of science and medicine. Following postwar educational reform it merged with three prewar higher schools to become a comprehensive university, and after merging with Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 2007 it became Japan's largest national university by undergraduate enrollment. It is among Japan's most productive research institutions, with alumni and faculty including physics Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa and medicine Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi.
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officially established in 1931 as the sixth of the Imperial Universities in Japan
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national research university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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national research university
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Osaka University, officially renamed The University of Osaka (UOsaka) in April 2025, is a national research university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, tracing its roots to the Edo-era institutions Tekijuku (1838) and Kaitokudo (1724) before its formal establishment in 1931 as the sixth of Japan's Imperial Universities, with faculties of science and medicine.
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was officially established in 1931 as the sixth of the Imperial Universities in Japan, with two faculties: science and medicine.
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