Kyoto University

national university located in Kyoto, Japan
Organization national_university Q336264
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Kyoto University was founded on June 18, 1897[1][2]. Its headquarters are located in Kyoto.

Key Facts

  • Member of: IIIF Consortium[3], Dryad[4], ArXiv[5], ORCID, Inc.[6], Open Education Global[7], RU11[8]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sakyō-ku[9], Kyoto Prefecture[10]
  • Country: Japan[11]
  • Instance of: university[12], comprehensive university[13], academic publisher[14]
  • Maintained by: Japan[15]
  • Headquarters location: Kyoto[16]
  • Child organization or unit: Disaster Prevention Research Institute[17], Primate Research Institute[18], Kyoto University Museum[19], Graduate School of Letters, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University[20], Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies[21]
  • Commons category: Kyoto University[22]
  • Chairperson: Nagahiro Minato[23]
  • Has part(s): Tasuku Honjo[24], Hideki Yukawa[25], Minamoto Takahito[26], Shin'ichirō Tomonaga[27], Kenichi Fukui[28], Susumu Tonegawa[29], Ryōji Noyori[30], Makoto Kobayashi[31], Toshihide Maskawa[32], Shinya Yamanaka[33]
  • Inception: June 18, 1897[34]
  • Significant event: 大学入試問題ネット投稿事件[35], 澤柳事件[36], 京都学連事件[37], Takigawa incident[38], 綜合原爆展[39], Kyodai-Tenno incident[40], Kojinbashi incident[41], 矢野事件[42], 京都大学アメフト部レイプ事件[43]
  • Day in year for periodic occurrence: June 18[44]
  • Official website: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja[45], https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en[46], https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/zh-cn[47], https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/zh-tw[48], https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ko[49]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kyoto University[50]
  • Ranking: 45[51], 34[52], 37[53], 41[54], 39[55], 32[56], 35[57], 26[58]

Why It Matters

Kyoto University has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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