Chuo Law College founded in Kanda, Tokyo (1885)

Chuo Law College, the predecessor of Chuo University, was founded in 1885 in Kanda, Tokyo. Established as the English Law School by Rokuichiro Masujima and a group of young lawyers, the institution later evolved into a university. The founding location, Kanda, is a historic downtown area in Tokyo.

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Background and detail

Background. Chuo University traces its origins to the English Law School, founded in 1885. The school was established in Kanda, an area in northeastern Chiyoda, Tokyo, which was part of the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo. This institution served as the foundation for what would later become a private research university.

Founding. The English Law School was founded in 1885 at Kanda in Tokyo by Rokuichiro Masujima. He was accompanied by a group of 18 young lawyers led by him. This specific founding event marks the beginning of the institution that would eventually be renamed and promoted to university status.

Early Evolution. The founding institution later moved and was renamed, beginning a lineage that continued well beyond this event's 1885 scope; the details of those later transformations belong to the subsequent history of the institution rather than to the founding itself.

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