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Overview

The university was established as a university in 1949 under the new School Education Law. Its predecessor dates back to 1906 and was supported by Koyata Iwasaki, the fourth head of the
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, the institution was financially supported by donations from
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. After World War II, it became independent from Mitsubishi Group after dissolution of the zaibatsu. However, Seikei University still has close connections with the
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. This university has many graduates from families of
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backgrounds. The university is one of the Tokyo Four Universities (Seikei, Musashi, Seijo, Gakushuin), the grouping of universities that evolved from pre-war high schools.


Organization


Undergraduate Faculties

*Faculty of Economics *Faculty of Business *Faculty of Law *Faculty of Humanities *Faculty of Science and Technology


Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Economics *Graduate School of Business *Graduate School of Law and Political Science *Graduate School of Humanities *Graduate School of Science and Technology *Law School


Research institutes

*Center for Asian and Pacific Studies


Academic rankings


Alumni rankings

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ranks Seikei University as 89th in the world in 2009 (89th in 2008) in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies. (The university is also ranked 9th in Japan.)


Attached school

The university and its attached schools are jointly managed by the . ;Seikei Senior High School ::Seikei high school has an exchange study program with St. Paul's School and
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Notable alumni

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*Shunpei Tsukahara, Japanese politician *Mamoru Takano, Japanese politician of the Democratic Party *Takao Sato, Japanese politician *Izumi Kobayashi, Secretary of
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*Susumu Shirayama, President of
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*Toshio Mita, Chairman of
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Ira Ishida is a Japanese novelist and TV commentator. After graduating from Seikei University, he worked for a number of different advertising production companies and as a freelance copywriter. In 1997, he published his first short story collection, ''I ...
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, novelist (
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Yuichi Takai was a Japanese author. Takai won the 1965 Akutagawa Prize for ''Kita no kawa'' (Northern Stream), the 1984 Tanizaki Prize for ''Kono kuni no sora'' (この国の空, This Country's Sky), and the 1989 Yomiuri Prize for ''Yoru no ari'' (夜 ...
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See also

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Osaka Seikei University is a private university in Osaka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1933. It was chartered as a junior women's college in 1951. In 2003 it became coeducational. Faculties This university has the following faculties: ;Fac ...
, despite naming, has no ties with the institution. *
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, university was used as a setting of Otonokizaka High School


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