The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku) is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students (in 2003). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the largest single campus in Japan. It is famous in the research of physical education, medical science, library and Information science, physics and social science. Its Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction. The current university was established in October, 1973. A forerunner of this university was Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学, Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku) originally founded in 1872 as one of the oldest universities in Japan,Tokyo Higher Normal School (東京師範学校, Tōkyō Shihan Gakkō) . On July 11, 1991 Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was stabbed to death at the University for translating Salman Rushdie's most famous novel The Satanic Verses.