Updated: July 2026, 8

Toho University

Fostering well-versed knowledge and skills, a wide range of perspectives, and professionals and medical professionals in natural and life sciences who have a deep personality

It is a comprehensive university of natural sciences with 5 faculties, 10 departments and 4 graduate schools of medicine, pharmacy, science, nursing, and health sciences.Based on the founding spirit of "nature, life, and human beings," we have honed our humanity, practical skills in society, scientific eyes and creativity necessary for exploration, and have acquired a broad perspective and personality that has acquired problem-solving thinking. Fostering professionals and medical professionals in nature and life sciences with deep nostalgia.We practice problem-finding and problem-solving small-group education to foster symbiotic leadership.The learning of each faculty is organically linked through common education.We carry out "team medical exercises" that collaborate while making the best use of each other's strengths.

List of faculties / departments
Faculty of medicineMedical department capacity 123 people
PharmacyFaculty of Pharmacy Capacity 245 people
Faculty of ScienceChemistry Department Capacity 80 people
Department of Biology Capacity 80 people
Department of Biomolecular Science Capacity 80 people
Department of Physics Capacity 70 people
Department of Computer Science Capacity 100 people
Department of Biosphere Environmental Science Capacity 60 people
Faculty of NursingNursing Department Capacity 102 people
Faculty of Health SciencesNursing Department Capacity 80 people

Contact information, address, etc.
Postal Code 143-8540
Address5-21-16 Omorinishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo
DepartmentAdmission center
Phone Number03-5763-6598

Other Information
Official pagehttps://www.toho-u.ac.jp/

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