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History
1887 Dr. Enryo Inoue founds private school Tetsugakukan (forerunner of Toyo University) on the grounds of Rinsho-in Temple in Takioka, Hongo
1903 Name Testugakukan changed to Private University Testugakukan.
1904 Completion of Testugaku-do campus (donated to Tokyo Prefecture in 1944).
1906 Name changed to Toyo University.
1916 Enrollment of women (one of the first co-ed schools).
1919 Death of founder Dr. Enryo Inoue in Dalian, China.
1928 Toyo University sanctioned under the University Establishment Law.
1949 Restructured as New University under National School Establishment Law; Undergraduate School of Literature established.
1950 Undergraduate School of Economics and junior college established.
1952 Graduate School of Literature founded.
1956 Undergraduate School of Law established.
1959 Undergraduate School of Sociology established.
1961 Opening of Kawagoe Campus; Undergraduate School of Engineering established.
1964 Correspondence courses established.
1966 Undergraduate School of Business Administration established.
1977 Opening of Asaka Campus.
1987 Celebration of 100th Anniversary.
1990 Founding of Inoue Enryo Memorial Center.
1992 Completion of Hakusan Campus Building No. 1.
1994 Initiation of academic calendar beginning in October; completion of Hakusan Campus Buildings No. 2 and No. 3.
1996 Bio-Nano Electronics Research Center established.
1997 Opening of Itakura Campus. Faculties of Regional Development Studies, Life Sciences established.
1998 Remote lecture system "Space Collaboration System" and information network system "ToyoNet" implemented.
2001 Completion of Hakusan Campus Building No. 4 and Itakura Campus Building No. 3.
2002 Completion of Hakusan Campus Hosui-no-Mori Park, Kawagoe Campus Building No. 1 and Library.
2003 Completion of Hakusan Campus Enryo Inoue Memorial Building and Kawagoe Campus Building No. 2.
2004 Professional Graduate School established.
2005 Completion of Hakusan Campus Building No. 6. Implementation of unified education system among 5 liberal arts faculties. Undergraduate School of Human Life Design established on Asaka Campus. Completion of Inoue Enryo Memorial Museum.
2006 Second Hakusan Campus opened.
2009 Undergraduate School of Engineering was reorganized into Undergraduate School of Science and Engineering.

Undergraduate School of Information Science and Arts established at Kawagoe Campus.

Undergraduate School of Regional Development Studies moved to Second Hakusan Campus.
A drawing room inside the RINSHO-IN Temple
Lesson scenery of Taisho Era
Four Saints, The symbol of TOYO UNIVERSITY
The entrance hole of the Asaka campus
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