History About T.P.U.
Historical Background
Tokyo Polytechnic University was established in 1923, and has a history and traditions spanning 100-year history. Rokuemon Sugiura VI, founder of Konishi Honten (present-day Konica Minolta, Inc.), strongly advocated that a school specializing in photographic education must be built in order to disperse into society the human resources that would contribute to the advancement of photographic technique in Japan and be of service to our national development. As successor of this ideal and will, Rokuemon Sugiura VII founded the Konishi Professional School of Photography (in present-day Honcho, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo) and began offering a high-level education specialized in photography. This was to be the antecedent of Tokyo Polytechnic University.
History
| 1923 | Konishi Professional School of Photography was founded (in present-day Shibuya Ward, Tokyo). |
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| 1950 | Tokyo Junior College of Photography was founded. |
| 1966 | Tokyo College of Photography Faculty of Engineering was founded as four-year college. Tokyo Junior College of Photography was renamed the Tokyo College of Photography Junior College Department. |
| 1977 | Tokyo College of Photography was renamed Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics. |
| 1978 | Graduate School of Engineering was established. |
| 1982 | Women's Junior College was founded. |
| 1994 | Faculty of Arts was founded (reorganizing Tokyo College of Photography Junior College Department), beginning of development as university comprising of two faculties. |
| 1998 | Graduate School of Arts was established. |
| 2003 | New English name of the university was launched: Tokyo Polytechnic University. |
| 2005 | Women's Junior College was abolished. |
| 2019 | Five department system of Faculty of Engineering was replaced with new organization of "Department of Engineering" comprised of five courses. All seven departments of Faculty of Arts were relocated to Nakano Campus. |
| 2023 | Centennial anniversary |