Various schools and universities serveTokyo,Japan.

Publicly run kindergartens,elementary schools (years 1 through 6), andjunior high schools (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Publichigh schools in Tokyo are run by theTokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education and are called "Metropolitan High Schools". Tokyo also has many private schools from kindergarten through high school.^[1]

Tokyo is home to many public and private universities, including theUniversity of Tokyo, the most prestigious university in Japan.

• Education in Japan

• The EMP Professional Ranking of World Universities (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• Webometrics (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007 (retrieved December 16, 2007)

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• A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan. Paul Doyon.Higher Education, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 443–470.
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• Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives (1999) Office of International Affairs[2]
• www.yozemi.ac.jp/rank/gakubu/
• www.toshin.com/daigakuranking/

• Education in Tokyo