Iwate University ( ja, 岩手大学, ''Iwate Daigaku'', abbreviated as ''Gandai'' or ''岩大'') is a national university located in
Morioka
is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. On 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 290,700 in 132,719 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is .
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. Founded in 1876 as the , the school was formally established as Iwate University in 1949.
With its main campus located in Morioka, and another in Kamaishi, Iwate, it has several research institutes at cities in the
Sanriku
, sometimes known as , lies on the northeastern side of the island of Honshu, corresponding to today's Aomori, Iwate and parts of Miyagi Prefecture and has a long history.
The 36 bays of this irregular coastline tend to amplify the destructivenes ...
region to support the reconstruction of the fishing industry due to the
2011 Tōhoku Earthquake. These are under the jurisdiction of the Iwate University Sanriku Reconstruction and Regional Revitalization Promotion Organization.
History
Originating in 1876 as the , the school was formally established as Iwate University in 1949 under the
new educational system, by integrating Iwate Prefectural Training Center for Supplementary Vocational School Teachers, Morioka Higher Technical School and Morioka Imperial College of Agriculture and Forestry. Three faculties were established: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Agriculture.
In April 1954, the General Education Department was established. Reformation of general liberal arts education began in May 1977. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was later established. Iwate University was incorporated as a national university in April 2004.
In December 2015, Iwate University established the "Iwate University Ihatov Fund" in order to enhance education and research as well as to further promote study support for students. The fund consists of the "General Fund" for broad-ranging support of the university's education, research and student body, and the "Special Fund" for exclusively helping students affected by the
Great East Japan Earthquake
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to complete their studies.
Administration
Undergraduate programs
* Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Science and Engineering
* Faculty of Agriculture
Graduate programs
* Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
* Graduate School of Education
* Graduate School of Science and Engineering
* Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences
* United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences (UGAS)
Research facilities
* Research Center for Regional Disaster Management
* Center for Hiraizumi Studies
* Sanriku Fisheries Research Center
* Research Center for Manufacturing Technology
* Agri-Innovation Center
Notable people
Alumni
File:Miyazawa Kenji.jpg, Kenji Miyazawa
was a Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social acti ...
File:Akira Kano IPC Alpine 2013 SuperG awards.JPG, Akira Kano
File:Hiroaki SATO JPN – 15th Place (19).jpg, Hiroaki Sato Hiroaki Sato may refer to:
*, Japanese fighter and wrestler with ring name Hikaru Sato
*, Japanese figure skater
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese poet and translator
* Hiroaki Sato (animation director) (born 1959)
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File:Daichi Shimoyama 2015.jpg, Daichi Shimoyama
, nicknamed Chi, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Aomori Wat's of the B.League in Japan. He had been the team captain of the Aomori Wat's.
College career
He's got Tohoku College Basketball League 3-point leader awar ...
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Chisako Wakatake
is a Japanese writer. Her 2017 book '' Ora ora de hitori igu mo'' won the Akutagawa Prize and the Bungei Prize.
Biography
Wakatake was born in 1954 in Tōno, Iwate, Japan. She started writing while in school, but after graduating from Iwate U ...
(writer) -
Akutagawa Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes.
History
The ...
winning author
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Kenji Miyazawa
was a Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social acti ...
(poet) - graduated from Morioka Agriculture and Forestry College (盛岡高等農林学校, Morioka Kōtō Nōrin Gakkō, now the Faculty of Agriculture)
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Naoki Naruo (footballer) - former football player and manager
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Akira Kano (alpine skier) - Paralympic Champion, winner of three Paralympic gold medals
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Hiroaki Sato Hiroaki Sato may refer to:
*, Japanese fighter and wrestler with ring name Hikaru Sato
*, Japanese figure skater
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese poet and translator
* Hiroaki Sato (animation director) (born 1959)
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(figure skating)
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Daichi Shimoyama
, nicknamed Chi, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Aomori Wat's of the B.League in Japan. He had been the team captain of the Aomori Wat's.
College career
He's got Tohoku College Basketball League 3-point leader awar ...
(basketball player)
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Eiki Takahashi
is a male Japanese racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Ch ...
(racewalker)
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Kikuo Chishima
was a Japanese medical researcher who promoted a variant of the Soviet medical biologist Olga Lepeshinskaya's pseudoscientific cellular theories, known as neo-Haematology, now largely discredited.
Biography
Chishima was born in the village of ...
(medical researcher)
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Motoo Fujii
is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
He won a bronze medal at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships in the mixed doubles with Yoshiko Tanaka.
See also
* List of table tennis players
* List of World Table Tennis Champio ...
(table tennis player)
Historical Museum for Agricultural Education
![171103 Iwate University Historical Museum for Agricultural Education Morioka Iwate pref Japan02s3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/171103_Iwate_University_Historical_Museum_for_Agricultural_Education_Morioka_Iwate_pref_Japan02s3.jpg)
Formerly the Morioka Agricultural High School, the Historical Museum for Agricultural Education is located within the Iwate University Campus. Constructed in 1912 and completed in December of the same year, the Historical Museum for Agricultural Education is one of the few buildings still surviving as a central facility of a national professional college established in the Meiji era. It has been preserved well with little alteration and was designated as an Important Cultural Property on July 12, 1994. The Guardroom and Old Main Gate were also given the same designation at the same time. A large-scale renovation took place around that time and the Historical Museum was restored to its original state. Polan Plaza, which houses a sundial, was built to the northeast of the Hall in the corner that connects to the Faculty of Agriculture building.
Gallery
File:Iwate-Univ-Main-Gate.jpg, Main Gate
File:171103 Iwate University Morioka Iwate pref Japan05s3.jpg, Iwate University Library
File:171103 Iwate University Morioka Iwate pref Japan14n.jpg, Old Main Gate
File:171103 Iwate University Morioka Iwate pref Japan13n.jpg, Guardroom
References
External links
Official website
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Educational institutions established in 1949
Japanese national universities
Forestry education
1949 establishments in Japan
Universities and colleges in Iwate Prefecture
Morioka, Iwate