 Administration building (right) and ISC, Suita |
 Machikane-yama Garden, Toyonaka |
Osaka University was founded in 1931 by the Japanese Government with strong support from local governments in the Osaka area. It was established with the aim of creating a center of higher education inheriting the liberal and progressive academic tradition of the Osaka area that had been the center of trade for the nation for many centuries. In April of 2004, it became one of 84 Incorporations founded under the National University Law that resulted from recent national university reform in Japan.
Administration building (right) and ISC, Suita |
Machikane-yama Garden, Toyonaka |
The University now (as of January, 2006) comprises ten undergraduate schools, fifteen graduate schools, the Institute for Higher Education Research and Practice, five research institutes, seventeen education and research centers, and two hospitals attached to the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Dentistry. Around twelve thousand undergraduates plus eight thousand graduate students, including over one thousand foreign students, are enrolled. There are approximately two thousand five hundred academic staff and two thousand administrative and supporting staff.
 Mono-rail access between two campuses |
 Ginkgo Hall, Faculty of Medicine, Suita |
 Engineering Library, Suita |
 Cybermedia Center, Toyonaka |
 Engineering Bruildings, Suita |
 Toyonaka Main Gate |
The University comprises two main campuses, one in Suita (a northern
suburb of Osaka) and the other in Toyonaka (a northwestern suburb of Osaka),
with a combined area of one hundred and fifty hectares (three hundred and seventy
acres). Furthermore, the University maintains a downtown extension, the Nakanoshima
Center, and three overseas offices, in the US (San Francisco), in the Netherlands
(Groningen) and in Thailand (Bangkok).
More information about Osaka University may be found at the following
web site:<http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp>