In the planting of the sidewalk in front of Ginza Matsuzakaya, there is a monument to the Commercial Code Training Center.
This place is the origin of Hitotsubashi University, which was established in 1949.
The Commercial Code Training Institute is Yukichi Fukuzawa of Keio University and the creator of Japanese capitalism.
With the support of Eiichi Shibusawa and others, Arinori Mori (first Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 1847-
It was founded as a private school in 1875 by 1889.
Nine years later, under the direct control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the name was changed to Tokyo Commercial School.
After that, the jurisdiction changed to the Ministry of Education and several renamings (higher commercial school, Tokyo)
Higher Commercial School, Tokyo University of Commerce, Tokyo Sangyo University during the war, and after the war, again
After returning to Tokyo University of Commerce, it will be organized into the current Hitotsubashi University.
Meanwhile, in 1909, there was a crisis of being integrated into Tokyo Imperial University.
However, it is avoided with the support of school officials and many others.
The founding spirit of "cultivation of industry leaders" is the purpose of training bureaucrats.
I did not allow the annexation to Imperial University. (Monkey Rooster Case)
The antigovernment stance unique to Hitotsubashi University is not only private universities but also other national universities.
It emits a beam of light by distinguishing it from each other.
This monument was not the birthplace of Hitotsubashi University, but the commercial law workshop.
You can feel the face and pride of this university, which maintains a free and vigorous school style since its founding period.
