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A thread titled “Can you pinpoint my university using only yes-or-no questions?” popped up on 5ch’s Nandemo Jikkyo (anything-goes live chat) board. As fragmentary hints piled up — not a national or public university, not especially high on the hensachi (Japan’s standardized exam-difficulty index) scale, has a nuclear-related department, buildings that look like a technical college — one of the thread’s regulars correctly guessed the school (Meisei University) partway through, and the OP quickly threw in the towel, admitting “I never thought they’d actually say the name.” From there, the conversation drifted into campus-life chat about the Hachioji/Tama area, comparing cafeterias with the neighboring Chuo University (Tama Campus) and debating whether students who use the same station even think about each other.
What people said
There are a ton of possibilities, so my bet is this thread dies before anyone nails it
Sorry, there's a department that sounds like that, at least
No!!!!!
I wasn't really weighing pros and cons
I just applied to every school that seemed likely to take me
No!!!!!!!!!!
It's under 50 on the hensachi scale, so… maybe not so much?
Partially, yes
No idea
At least they don't advertise it in big letters or anything
That building that looks like the Parthenon was gorgeous
Universities really spend money on the weirdest things
I never thought they'd actually say the name
It's my alma mater, you know
Hang in there
Seriously? If it's Education or Business, that's seriously impressive
Computer Science, actually
And I'm already an old guy who's left IT behind
Go check out the cafeteria
Then compare it to the one at the school next door
I guarantee the other one tastes better
Chuo, right?
I ate there more times than I can count
Computer Science… not the Faculty of Informatics…?
Guess I replied to the wrong post by mistake
Sorry about that
Did that ever make you feel guilty?
Not at all
Honestly it's not as big a deal as people make it out to be
Both sides just hang out together without worrying about it
In that case, try the karaage-don (fried chicken rice bowl) at my school
For some reason everyone keeps recommending it extra-soaked in sauce
I remember it being a stairway from hell…
Or wait, maybe it was an escalator
This is what happens when you've got a complex about the school next door
Turn that into fuel and flip the script
Nah, I'm good…
Though I am jealous of how pretty their illuminations are
Though if it were a “BF” school (Border Free — open admission, basically no entrance-exam cutoff), you might not want to get involved
Funny how the people actually involved usually don't care that much
Credential laundering (transferring to a more prestigious grad school) is easy, and once you're working it's all about skill anyway
Can you actually get into another university's grad school from Meisei?
Can't say the name, but I know someone who works at a big company everyone's heard of
Though that guy had like a 70 hensachi in high school, so…
Chuo, though… you pass the exam and it turns out to be the Tama Campus 😭, that kind of thing seems plausible
I think the Tama Campus is only the Faculty of Law these days
Though apparently Meisei used to have a campus in Ome too
Wait, are we talking about Chuo?
Only the Law Faculty moved to Myogadani
Even so, only the Law major is any good — the Political Science major isn't popular
Yeah, talking about Chuo
Oh so the Law Faculty already moved, huh
They keep drifting further and further from Tama
If you come to Tokyo from the countryside and see Tama, you're gonna go “noooo way~”
It's nothing like those office-district city-center areas
Seriously, it's nothing but hills
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The “guess my university using only yes-or-no questions” format is a classic game-thread genre on 5ch, structured so the OP doles out attributes bit by bit while the thread tries to nail down the answer reply by reply. In this thread, hints piled up — “not a national or public school,” “not high on the hensachi scale,” “has a nuclear-related department,” “looks like a technical college” — until partway through, one participant correctly guessed the answer (Meisei University), prompting the OP to wave the white flag early. The second half of the thread shifted into comparing cafeterias and campus locations between Meisei and the neighboring Chuo University (Tama Campus), with posters riffing on the familiar dynamic of private-school students sharing a station with a more prestigious school nearby. It’s worth noting that the thread never explicitly confirmed the exact faculty or department, so which department the “nuclear-related” hint refers to remains unconfirmed. There are also mentions of specifics like Chuo University’s Law Faculty relocating away from the Tama Campus, but these come from posters’ personal accounts rather than confirmed official sources, so they may not necessarily match the latest official information.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo board) thread “Can you identify my university using only yes-or-no questions?.”
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