Hokkaido University was founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College and gained its current name in 1947. We are a comprehensive university with 12 undergraduate schools, 21 graduate schools and 23 research institutes/centers with about 18600 students from over 90 countries/regions, and about 2100 academics. We have two campuses in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan: the 1.7 square kilometer main campus in Sapporo, the 5th largest city, and the other in Hakodate City. We have been promoting internationalization through various programs such as Nitobe College and Hokkaido Universal Campus Initiative. The alumni in the university’s history of more than 140 years include the following: Kanzo Uchimura, writer and intellectual in Meiji era (Class of 1880); Inazo Nitobe, author of Bushido, League of Nations Undersecretary-General (Class of 1881); Takeo Arishima, novelist and essayist (Class of 1900); Akira Ifukube, composer of classical music and film music including Godzilla (Class of 1935); Ryuzo Yanagimachi, biologist, pioneer of assisted fertilization technologies (BSc in 1953, DSc in 1960); Akira Suzuki, emeritus professor of Hokkaido University, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 2010 (BSc in 1954, MSc in 1956, and DSc in 1960); Yuichiro Miura, alpinist, reached the summit of Mt. Everest at the age of 75 (Class of 1956); Mamoru Mohri, scientist and Japan’s first astronaut (BSc in 1970 and MSc in 1972).