France

Imperial University (Université Impériale) or University of France

University of France

The University of France was a highly centralized educational state organization founded by Napoleon I in 1808 and given authority not only over the individual, previously independent, universities, but also over primary and secondary education. The former individual universities were henceforth...

 refers to the French university re-organisation initiated by Napoleon.

Japan

Nine were founded by the Empire of Japan

Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan is the name of the state of Japan that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of...

 between 1877 and 1939, seven in Japan, one in Korea and one in Taiwan. They were run by the imperial government until the end of World War II. The seven Japanese universities are collectively known as the . The universities are:; now 35°42′48.39"N 139°45′44.03"E; now 35°1′33.77"N 135°46′51"E; now 38°15′15.45"N 140°52′27.81"E; now 33°37′21.9"N 130°25′31.19"E; now 43°4′17.45"N 141°20′48.19"E; dissolved and absorbed as part of Seoul National University

Seoul National University

Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...

  37°27′33.63"N 126°57′7.51"E; now National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University is a national co-educational university located in Taipei, Republic of China . In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà" . Its main campus is set upon 1,086,167 square meters in Taipei's Da'an District. In addition, the university has 6 other campuses in Taiwan,...

  25°0′50.1"N 121°31′47.42"E; now 34°49′7.23"N 135°31′26.23"E; now 35°9′15.8"N 136°57′55.73"E