Alma Mata

Waseda University, Fukuoka University.. both are private run universities based on Tokyo, Fukuoka respectively. The number of students are almost similar, but Waseda is well-known one of the prestigious universities in Japan. When it comes to Fukuoka much less known.

Once two Universities had fought a rugby. The result was something like 100 versus 10. Waseda won the game overwhelmingly.

According to the list of most livable cities in the world, Tokyo is located in the 3rd and Fukuoka 16th. When it comes to population, Tokyo 30 million, Fukuoka 3 million.. Tokyo is ten times larger in any aspects.

This is not a population but a university ranking. Many surveys agree Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford are top three universities in the world while Tokyo University is located in 16th or around.


It's suggestive to think about the relative position between Oxford -3rd and Tokyo University 16th that that of Tokyo 3rd and Fukuoka 16th as a most livable city.


Tokyo University -my Alma Mata is the most prestigious university in Japan yet I know it is an ordinary university from a point of view inside people. There are some universities some geniuses gather in the world.