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___MASK62___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK53___ ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include ___MASK53___ ( officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK53___ , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . ___MASK62___ is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . East ___MASK96___ is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes ___MASK53___ , Hong Kong , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and Japan ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian continent , about twice the area of Europe . , or is a national university in ___MASK41___ , Japan . It is the second oldest Japanese university , one of Asia ' s highest ranked universities and one of Japan ' s National Seven Universities . One of Asia  s leading research - oriented institutions , ___MASK41___ University is famed for producing world - class researchers , including ten Nobel Prize laureates , two Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize winner . The ___MASK24___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK24___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK24___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK53___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK24___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . ___MASK53___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK53___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK53___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK53___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure - track faculty to continuously engage in research , as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure . Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names . On the one hand , research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the ___MASK93___ brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world , and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts . On the other hand , new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate " real world " applications ; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking . National ___MASK62___ University ( NTU colloquially ,  ; Táidà ) is a national co - educational research university located in ___MASK39___ , ___MASK62___ . Its 1 , 086 , 167 m main campus is located in ___MASK39___ ' s Da ' an District . In addition , the university has 6 other campuses in ___MASK39___ and elsewhere , with a total area of 345 , 830 , 000 m . The University consists of 11 colleges , 54 departments , 103 graduate institutes and 4 research centers . In 2015 , the student body consisted of 16 , 533 undergraduate students and 15 , 225 graduate students . ___MASK68___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of ___MASK68___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern ___MASK96___ . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the ___MASK96___ Mainland ( east of ___MASK53___ , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East ___MASK53___ Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co - operation . A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations , the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; there are now 193 . The headquarters of the United Nations is in ___MASK57___ , ___MASK65___ City , and experiences extraterritoriality . Further main offices are situated in Geneva , Nairobi , and ___MASK54___ . The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states . Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security , promoting human rights , fostering social and economic development , protecting the environment , and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine , natural disaster , and armed conflict . Name . In Japanese , the city has been called Ky , Miyako , or Ky no Miyako . In the 11th century , the city was renamed ___MASK41___ (" capital city "), after the Chinese word for capital city , '. After the city of Edo was renamed Tokyo ( meaning " Eastern Capital ") in 1868 , and the seat of the Emperor was transferred there , ___MASK41___ was known for a short time as Saiky ( meaning " Western Capital "). The was the historical Japanese nation - state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern ___MASK68___ . ___MASK39___ , officially known as ___MASK39___ City , is the capital city and a special municipality of the Republic of China ( commonly known as Taiwan ). Sitting at the northern tip of the island , ___MASK39___ City is an enclave of the municipality of New ___MASK39___ City . It is about southwest of the northern port city Keelung . Most of the city is located on the ___MASK39___ Basin , an ancient lakebed bounded by the two relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers , which join to form the Tamsui River along the city ' s western border . Since 1949 , ___MASK39___ has been the capital of the ROC after losing the mainland to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War . Tsungming Tu ( Chinese :  ; pinyin : Du Congming ; August 25 , 1893 in Tamsui , ___MASK62___ , Empire of ___MASK68___ - February 25 , 1986 ) , was the first Doctor of Medical Sciences ( equivalent to Ph . D . ) of ___MASK62___ . He received his doctorate degree from ___MASK41___ Imperial University ( now ___MASK41___ University ) in 1922 . He became the first Taiwanese professor in ___MASK68___ ' s pre - 1945 imperial university system , at Taihoku Imperial University ( now National ___MASK62___ University ) . His pharmacology research lab was the cradle of medical research in ___MASK62___ . The laboratory did pioneering research on methods to treat opium addiction , on the toxicology of snake venom , and on the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine . In addition to participating in pharmacological and toxicological research , Tu also contributed to medical education . After the World War II , he was the first dean of National ___MASK62___ University Medical College . In 1954 , Tu founded Kaohsiung Medical College ( now Kaohsiung Medical University ) and became the first president of the College ( 1954 -- 1966 ) . .