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The University of Tokyo (UTokyo, 東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct predecessors include Tenmongata (founded in 1682) and the Shoheizaka Institute. The university consists of 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools, and 11 affiliated research institutes. As of 2023, it has a total of 13,974 undergraduate students and 14,258 graduate students.The majority of the university's educational and research facilities are concentrated within its three main Tokyo campuses: Hongo, Komaba, and Kashiwa. The University of Tokyo also operates several smaller campuses throughout the Greater Tokyo Area. In addition, the university maintains over 60 facilities and offices across Japan and around the world. The University of Tokyo's total land holdings amount to 326 square kilometres (approximately 80,586 acres or 32,604 hectares).As of 2021, the University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include 17 prime ministers of Japan (out of 64), 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist. Additionally, UTokyo alumni have founded some of Japan's largest companies, such as Toyota Motor and Hitachi. UTokyo alumni have also consistently held chief executive positions in approximately a quarter of the Nikkei 225 companies (47 in 2014, including Sony, MUFG, SMBC, Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co.), a fifth of the total seats in the National Diet (139 out of 713 in 2023), and about two thirds of the judgeships at the Supreme Court of Japan (11 out of 15 in 2024).