Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (とうきょうがい Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) was established in 1897 and opened in 1949 as a prestigious national university in Japan. TUFS has a Department of Foreign Languages and a Graduate School of Regional Culture. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies originated in 1857 as the Hanshu Shusho, one of the oldest universities in Japan, and later became the Department of Foreign Languages under the University of Tokyo, and then became independent again.