Tokyo University is a national comprehensive university headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a member of the International Association of East Asian research universities, the Asian University Alliance, and the designated national universities, academic research symposiums, super International University program, Graduate School of excellence program, leading graduate school program, Japan Switzerland Mirai project, etc.

Tokyo University was born in 1877. It was formed by the merger of "Tokyo Kaicheng school" and "Tokyo Medical School" during the Meiji Restoration. It initially established four branches of law, science, literature and medicine and a preparatory University. It is the first national comprehensive university in Japan and one of the earliest Western Universities in Asia. Some of its departments can be traced back to the reign of emperor Lingyuan. The University was renamed "Imperial University" in 1886, which was also the first Imperial University established in Japan; in 1897, it was renamed "Tokyo Imperial University"; in September 1947 after World War II, it was officially named "Tokyo University".

As a direct product of the impact of capitalist civilization, Tokyo University has a pivotal historical position in Japanese society. By 2018, the university has trained a large number of academic celebrities, business tycoons and political elites, including 11 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Wolf Prize winners, 1 fields prize winner, 16 Japanese prime ministers and 21 (Imperial) parliament speakers.

Dongda ranked 26th in the Academic Ranking of 2020 Soft World University, 36th in 2021the World University, 24th in 2021qs World University and 73rd in 2021u.s. News World University.