Meiji University (æ˜Žæ²»å¤§å¦ Meiji daigaku) is a private university with campuses in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three lawyers of the Meiji era, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi KÅzÅ, and Yashiro Misao. It is one of the largest and most prestigious Japanese universities in Tokyo. The University has nine faculties with a total of approximately 33,000 students on three campuses in Ochanomizu in Chiyoda, Tokyo, the Izumi neighborhood of Suginami-ku, Tokyo, and the Ikuta neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki. The university is one of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MEXT) thirteen "Global 30" Project universities, which as of 2014 is called the Super Global Universities program. Meiji University's baseball team belongs to the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. Every year, rugby union and baseball matches MeisÅsen (明早戦) against Waseda University attract support among its students. It also has a successful judo team. The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to anime and manga.[3] It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.
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