CT, since you came outta some crack in the facade to correct my well scripted words, well, I am back to correct you instead, dude.  You say, "Not true yet, a few top Japanese Universities
(Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Tohoku) have more research funds per capita
than any other universities."  HAHHAH   ARE YOU DEAD SURE ABOUT YOUR FACT??  Time to double check, homie.

Overall endowments for research and overall development for 2008 in the ENTIRE world was highest at Harvard University: $36.556 Billion (its about 9 Billion lower already due to the subprime mess)...But in 2006, in terms of per capita endowments, it was Princeton.  C'mon dude, you expect University of Tokyo to top $36 Billion and change in grants and donations  that are mainly used for research and development, including infrastructure, etc.???  Dude, see the image below and view the allocation of funds for the entire educational sector of Japan including schools and Pre-schools, by the Ministry of Education in Japan (hope it is conventional knowledge that endowments by Private firms/parties are still an unheard phenomenon in Japan).  Hell, even if the University of Tokyo was awarded HALF of the nations funds for it's R&D, etc, it would still be A THIRD of what Harvard has ( as Japan Govt's Total Mgmt Expense is 1204.4 Billion Yen; Total Science and Tech promotion Expense is 852.6 Billion Yen.  Taking USD 1 = JPY 96.1 as per today's FX rate, the Total Funds allocated for the WHOLE University sector in Japan is $21.4 Billion ONLY!!  And the irony is that there are a 163 public and national universities in Japan (Good golly Miss Molly, I'm so generous as to say that the Univ of Tokyo gets HALF of the entire buget for universities as it prolly a lot, lot, lot less than that...Moreover, even the "half" it comes to a paltry $10.7 Billion...chump change as even MIT, Yale, Univ of Texas, etc. get MORE than that: HALF the Total Budget of Japan's University sector aka Univ of Tokyo...And where does the miniscule amounts of Japan's endowments fit in??  Surely not even in my wallet for sure.  LOLs   Hey, I'd totally understand if you mistook the Yen Billions for USD Billions instead!  LMAO

See wiki below for additional reading (I used a few other sources and issues I had read about years ago as well)...Maybe you'll know better before you start correcting the wrong peeps here on sajha.  All in all, Don't come back trynna impose any more BS on me hereon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colleges_and_universities_by_endowment