After relocating some departments to the outskirts of Tokyo to cope with increasing enrollments, private universities are now increasingly returning to the city center to survive amid a declining birthrate.
Drastic declines in real estate and construction prices after the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s also appear to be providing a tail wind.
Toyo University is building new structures with a total floor space of about 23,000 sq. meters at its Hakusan campus in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.