university
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-level
miscellaneous school A miscellaneous school is a classification of schools under the education laws of Japan and South Korea.
Japan
Overview
''Kakushu gakkō'' ( ja, 各種学校), sometimes translated as "miscellaneous vocational school", is a classification of schoo ...
located in
Kodaira
is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 195,207 in 93,654 households, and a population density of 9500 persons per km². The total area of the city was .
Geography
Kodaira i ...
,
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
. It was established by ethnic activist association and de facto
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
n embassy
Chongryon
The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, " ''
on 10 April 1956.
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
is the
medium of instruction
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. It operates seven four-year faculties:
political economy
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(including courses in
philosophy
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under its rubric),
literature
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,
history
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and
geography
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,
management
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Management includes the activities o ...
,
foreign language
A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a given country, and that native speakers from that country must usually acquire through conscious learning - be this through language lessons at schoo ...
s,
science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
(
physics
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,
mathematics
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, and
biochemistry
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) and
technology
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(
mechanical engineering
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,
electronic engineering
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, and
metallurgy
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Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
). The school also runs two and three-year
normal school
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programmes, as well as a two-year post-graduate school.
The school has received funding directly from the
government of North Korea
In the North Korean government, the Cabinet is the administrative and executive body. The North Korean government consists of three branches: administrative, legislative, and judicial. However, they are not independent of each other, but all br ...
every year since 1957; for example, in 2002, it received ¥132,420,000 in funding at the direction of
Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...
.
This school offers a university level education, but based on the Japanese School Education Law, it is not authorized a “university” and consequently is treated as a "miscellaneous school.”
Most students become teachers at Chongryon-affiliated schools after graduation. As of July 2001, the school's
rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
is Chang Byong Tae, a graduate of
Kyoto University
, mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture
, established =
, type = National university, Public (National)
, endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD)
, faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff)
, administrative_staff ...
and a former researcher in
solid-state chemistry Solid-state chemistry, also sometimes referred as materials chemistry, is the study of the synthesis, structure, and properties of solid phase materials, particularly, but not necessarily exclusively of, non-molecular solids. It therefore has a str ...
with
France
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's
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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Basic research, also called pure research o ...
.
See also
*
Chōsen gakkō
Chōsen gakkō ( ja, 朝鮮学校; ko, 조선학교) are schools located in Japan at which children from Korean communities in Japan receive their ethnic-centric heritage education.
Chōsen gakkō are foreign schools for children of Korean c ...
- North Korean primary and secondary schools in Japan