The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as Tokyo Daigaku and its full name is now National University Corporation, the University of Tokyo. It reports 28,479 regular students as of 1 May 2024. Teruo Fujii is President.
Agricultural teaching and research sit in the Faculty of Agriculture and the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences (GSALS). GSALS traces its history to the Agricultural Training School of the Ministry of Home Affairs, established in 1874, which merged with a school of forestry in 1886 and became the College of Agriculture of the Imperial University, with departments of agriculture, forestry and veterinary science. Its 12 departments include agricultural and environmental biology, forest science, aquatic bioscience, agricultural and resource economics, global agricultural sciences and veterinary medical sciences. Affiliated institutions include the Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, the University of Tokyo Forests, the Research Center for Food Safety and the Agro-Biotechnology Research Center (AgTECH). The school also lists cooperative programmes and AGRI-COCOON, a network linking public, administrative, business and academic sectors.