jichi medical university jichi medical university jichi medical university (自治医科大学, jichi ika daigaku) is a private university in shimotsuke, tochigi, japan, established in 1972. in 2008 the gates foundation awarded $100,000 to hiroyuki matsuoka, a medical researcher at the university, to do research on flying syringes. jichi medical university自治医科大学jichi medical university education & research centerestablished1972locationshimotsuke, tochigi, japanwebsitehttps://www.jichi.ac.jp/english/index.html