Greetings from the Chairperson

Chairperson of the NIT Incorporated Educational Institution
Akira Yanagisawa

A university of education and progress

Our university got its start in 1907 as the Tokyo Engineering School, which was located in the Koishikawa area of Tokyo’s Bunkyō District. As its name suggests, the school was founded to cultivate the industrial engineers needed in that era.

For more than 110 years after that, our university educated a great number of people with a focus on engineering and technology.

During that time, the political, economic, and technological landscapes of both Japan and the surrounding world underwent an unimaginable transformation. And even now, it can be said we live amidst of a maelstrom of undulating changes.

Since its founding as the Tokyo Engineering School, our university has continued to evolve by establishing the Tokyo Technical High School, the Tokyo Junior High School for Engineering, then in 1967, the Nippon Institute of Technology.

The environments, content, and methods of education have undergone dramatic changes over time, and I believe that our university has worked hard to respond to those changes through innovation.

Currently, our primary educational institutions are the Nippon Institute of Technology, the NIT Komaba High School, and the NIT Komaba Junior High School. Under its foundational principle of “cultivating leaders who widely contribute to the progress and cooperation of the world,” our university will continue shaping itself into the new form needed to educate the people demanded by the times, to teach people to find success in their endeavors, and above all, to supply the world with individuals who are trusted and respected, regardless of the era.