About the place
Tohoku University (東北大学 (東北帝國大學 prior to 1945)?, Tōhoku daigaku), abbreviated to Tohokudai (東北大?, Tōhokudai), located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan, is a Japanese national university. It is the third oldest Imperial University in Japan and among the National Seven Universities. It is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Japan, and one of the top fifty universities in the world.[1][2][3]