is a

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Toyohira-ku, Sapporo is one of the 10 wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The ward was established in 1972, when the 1972 Winter Olympics, Sapporo Olympics was held in Sapporo. Four other wards in Sapporo are bounded on Toyohira-ku. As of April 1, 2012, the ward has ...

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, Japan. It was originally set up in 1977 as the Commerce Faculty of the

Kitami is a city in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the most populous city and the commercial center in the subprefecture, although the subprefecture capital is Abashiri. Kitami is physically in the middle of Okhotsk Subprefecture. Th ...

campus of

Hokkai Gakuen University is a private university in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The precursor of the school was founded in 1885, and it was chartered as a university in 1952. Organization Faculties *Economics *Business Administration *Law *Humanities *Engineering ...

; it was spun off as a separate university in April 2006, at which point it moved to Sapporo. The school has

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agreements with

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and Yantai University in China, Daejeon University in

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, and the

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Notable students and faculty

* Shunpei Mizuno, author, lecturer in Korean language

References

External links

Official website
Educational institutions established in 2006 Private universities and colleges in Japan Hokkai School of Commerce Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 2006 establishments in Japan Universities and colleges in Hokkaido {{Hokkaidō-university-stub