The 'Language Course' of Kaisei School, which originated to Bansho-wage Goyo (Government Office for Translation of Barbarian Books) established in 1857 by the Tokugawa Shogunate, was separated from Kaisei School, and language schools of the Foreign Affairs Ministry were integrated together with the said separated course to become Tokyo School of Foreign Languages.
1857年設置された江戸幕府の蛮書和解御用を源流とする開成学校の「語学課程」を分離、外務省の語学学校などを統合し設立。