High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tohoku University (prior to 1945), T hoku daigaku), abbreviated to Tohokudai ( T hokudai ), located in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in the T hoku Region, Japan, is a Japanese national university. It is the third oldest Imperial University in Japan and is a member of the National Seven Universities. The university has 10 faculties and 15 graduate schools with a total of 17,949 students (2009). The spirits of its foundation are based on 3 core values "Research First", "Open-door"and "Practice-Oriented Research and Education" principles.