Hitotsubashi University

Hitotsubashi University

一橋大学
Motto	Captains of Industry
Type	Public (National)
Established	1920 (Origins 1875)
President	Satoshi Nakano [ja]
Academic staff	303 full-time （May 2021）[1]
Undergraduates	4,364（May 2021）[1]
Postgraduates	1,923（May 2021）[1]
Location	Kunitachi , Tokyo , Japan
Campus	Urban
Colors	Crimson Red (DIC-2489)
Mascot	None
Website	www.hit-u.ac.jp

Hitotsubashi University (一橋大学, Hitotsubashi daigaku), formerly known as Tokyo University of Commerce (東京商科大学, Tokyo shōka daigaku), is a national research university in Tokyo, Japan. Often regarded as Japan’s foremost institution for the study of the social sciences, particularly commerce, economics, law, political science, sociology, social data science, and the humanities, the university has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda.

In 1920, Hitotsubashi was granted university status as Tokyo University of Commerce, becoming Japan’s first national college specialising in commercial studies. It underwent another name change in 1949, adopting its modern name, Hitotsubashi. In 1962, the legal name was formally changed to Hitotsubashi University.^[2]

The university has produced numerous senior bureaucrats and politicians for the Japanese government, including Masayoshi Ōhira, who served as the prime minister of Japan.