Toyo University (東洋大学,Tōyō Daigaku) is a university with several branches in Japan, including (Bunkyō, Tokyo, Asaka, Kawagoe, and Itakura). Toyo University is famous for philosophical study in Japan. The department of Indian philosophy has top-flight scholars. The antecedent to Toyo University was Shiritsu Tetsugakukan (私立哲学館), which was founded at Rinsho-in Temple by Enryo Inoue in 1887. Inoue felt that the subject of philosophy was neglected in Japanese schools of higher learning at the time: "When one looks over the academic world in our society, one easily finds that philosophy occupies only a portion of it, while most of it is dominated by science, engineering, literature, history, law, political science and so on. However, if one looks into the roots of academic society, one realizes it is philosophy that forms the basis of every science, categorizes it and sets it in its place." In 1906 the school was moved to its present site, and its name was changed to Toyo University. The school's motto is, "The basis of all learning lies in philosophy." As an image which embodies this spirit, an animated film character from the Moomins series is its mascot.