Kagoshima University

Kagoshima University
鹿児島大学
Type	Public (National)
Established	1949
Academic staff	Faculties: Law, Economics and the Humanities; Education; Science; Medicine; Dentistry; Engineering; Agriculture; Fisheries; Veterinary Medicine; Graduate Schools: Humanities and Social Sciences; Education; Health Sciences; Agriculture; Fisheries; Science and Engineering; Medical and Dental Sciences; Veterinary Medicine;
Administrative staff	2,444
Students	10,477 (2018)
Undergraduates	8,881 (2018)
Postgraduates	1,596 (2018)
Doctoral students	568 (2018)
Address	Korimoto 1-21-24, Kagoshima 890-8580, Japan, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
Campus	Korimoto; Shimoarata; Sakuragaoka
Website	Official website

Kagoshima University (鹿児島大学, Kagoshima Daigaku), abbreviated to Kadai (鹿大), is a Japanese national university located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Korimoto Campus (The aerial photography in 2011 by Geospatial Information Authority of Japan [1])

Sakuragaoka Campus (Kagoshima University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine , Faculty of Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences)

Kagoshima University Central Library (Korimoto Campus)

History[]

The university was established in 1949 consolidating the following schools because of Educational reform in occupied Japan.

Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (第七高等学校造士館, Daishichi Kōtō Gakkō Zōshikan) - established in 1901. The school was located on the former site of Kagoshima Castle. It is one of the schools that originats from the han school Zoshikan (造士館, Zōshikan) in Edo period.
Kagoshima Normal School (鹿児島師範学校, Kagoshima Shihan Gakkō) - The oldest predecessor was established in 1875.
Kagoshima Youth Normal School (鹿児島青年師範学校, Kagoshima Seinen Shihan Gakkō) - established in 1944.
Kagoshima College of Agriculture and Forestry (鹿児島高等農林学校 / 鹿児島農林専門学校, Kagoshima Kōtō Nōrin Gakkō / Kagoshima Nōrin Senmon Gakkō) - established in 1908.
Kagoshima College of Fisheries (鹿児島水産専門学校, Kagoshima Suisan Senmon Gakkō) - established in 1946.

The following schools became Kagoshima Prefectural University (鹿児島県立大学, Kagoshima Kenritsu Daigaku) in 1949 and were consolidated into Kagoshima University in 1955.

Kagoshima Prefectural Technical College (鹿児島県立工業専門学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Kōgyō Senmon Gakkō) - established in 1945.
Kagoshima Prefectural Medical College (県立鹿児島医科大学, Kenritsu Kagoshima Ika Daigaku) - established as Kagoshima Prefectural Medical Vocational School (県立鹿児島医学専門学校, Kenritsu Kagoshima Igaku Senmon Gakkō) in 1942. It originats from the medical school in Kagoshima in Meiji era.

These seven schools became Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine in 1949. Faculty of Arts and Sciences was divided into Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities and Faculty of Science in 1965. Faculty of Dentistry was added in 1977. Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was separated from Faculty of Agriculture in 2012. Also Graduate Schools have been added gradually.^[3]

Faculties[]

Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Fisheries
Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Points of interest[]

Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden

Notable alumni[]

Politics

Wataru Kubo^{[note 1]} - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance
Seiichi Ōmura^{[note 2]} - member of the National Diet, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of State (Director General of the Defense Agency), bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Education)
Shigenori Tōgō^{[note 3]} - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs
Tadaatsu Ishiguro^{[note 3]} - bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry), Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, member of the National Diet
Eiichi Nishimura^{[note 3]} - member of the National Diet, Minister of Health and Welfare, Minister of Construction, Minister of State (Director General of National Land Agency, Director General of Administrative Management Agency)
Kokichi Shimoinaba^{[note 3]} - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
Morio Takahashi^{[note 3]} - bureaucrat, the mayor of Kumamoto City, government-appointed governor of prefectures, Superintendent General of Japanese police
Yin Ju-keng^{[note 3]} - politician in the early Republic of China
Zhou Fohai^{[note 3]} - politician Republic of China
Kamejiro Senaga^{[note 3]}^{[note 4]} - the mayor of Naha City, member of the National Diet
Kyuichi Tokuda^{[note 3]}^{[note 4]} - member of the National Diet

Business

Kazuo Inamori - founder of Kyocera Corporation and KDDI Corporation, Honorary Chairman of Kyocera and Japan Airlines

Academic

Isamu Akasaki^{[note 3]} - engineer and physicist, Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University, Distinguished Professor at Meijo University, Person of Cultural Merit, Order of Culture, Nobel prize in Physics, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Edison Medal, Kyoto Prize, Japan Academy Prize & Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
Akira Arimura^{[note 3]} - neuroscientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Tulane University in America
Hiroshi Enatsu^{[note 3]} - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University
Arika Kimura^{[note 3]} - botanist, the first director of the Botanical Garden of Tohoku University
Teiso Esaki^{[note 3]} - entomologist, Professor at Kyushu University
Kuniyoshi Obara^{[note 1]} - scholar of education, education reformer, founder of Tamagawa Gakuen and Tamagawa University

Culture

Shinobu Kaitani - manga artist
Kawataro Nakajima^{[note 3]} - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, [ja]
Kōichi Iiboshi^{[note 3]} - author
Kiyoteru Hanada^{[note 3]} - literary critic
Hideyo Amamoto^{[note 3]} - actor
Takashi Nomura^{[note 3]} - film director
Shirō Fukai^{[note 3]} - composer

Athletics

Katsutoshi Naito^{[note 2]} - wrestler, Olympics bronze medalist

Notes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b alumni of Kagoshima Normal School
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b alumni of Kagoshima College of Agriculture and Forestry
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t alumni of Seventh Higher School Zoshikan
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b left the school during the term

References[]

^ Kagoshima University site Student and Staff^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Statistics of the University". Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
^ Kagoshima University(in English) Faculties & Graduate Schools on 2021-08-31

External links[]

Official website

Coordinates: 31°34′18″N 130°32′42″E / 31.57167°N 130.54500°E / 31.57167; 130.54500

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