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, Japan. Combined teams of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Department of Science and Engineering competed against 130 team and came in 11th place in the 27th

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in 2007. This is the highest order at the participation university from Japan at present. The origins of Kokushikan University lie in the Kokushikan private academy, founded in Tokyo's

Azabu is an area in Minato,Tokyo, Japan. Built on a marshy area of foothills south of central Tokyo, its coverage roughly corresponds to that of the former Azabu Ward, presently consisting of nine official districts: Azabu-Jūban, Azabudai, Azabu ...

District in 1917, midway through Japan's turbulent Taisho period. Founder Tokujiro Shibata and his young colleagues envisaged that this academy would "cultivate competent individuals endowed with wisdom and courage." Kokushikan, which has produced more than 146,000 graduates active in all spheres of society. Since its foundation in 1917, Kokushikan University has been working diligently to realize the educational philosophy, which is aimed to cultivate students so that they can contribute to the world peace and development. In the statement of the purport for establishing Kokushikan University, the significance of spiritual civilization is noted, lamenting the social malady of material civilization. Also, the university has been working consistently to instill a spirit of "knowledge and action", which has become a tradition over the years, and at present, the university offers education based on this principle.

Organization

Graduate schools

*Political Science *Economics *Business Administration *Sport System *Engineering *Law
Interdisciplinary Intellectual Property Law
*Human Sciences

Undergraduate faculties

*Political Science and Economics **Political Science **Economics **Business Administration *Physical Education **Sport and Physical Education **Martial Arts **Sport and Medical Science *Engineering Reorganization April in 2007, for Science and Engineering *Law **Law **Modern Business Law *Letters **Education **History and Geography **Literature *School of Asia 21 **Asia 21

Research institute

*Research Institutes and Centers

*Institute of Budo and Moral Education *Lifelong Learning Center *Wellness Research Center *Institute for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq *Institute for the Study of Politics *Placement Center

Others

*University Library *Guesthouse *Student dormitory *Kokushikan Foreign Student Alumni Meeting *Cultural Exchange Center with Loval Citizen

Scholarship

*Studies excellent

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*Athletic skills excellent scholarship *Study help scholarship *Students from abroad scholarship *Department of Engineering Shiozawa scholarship *Rinichi Kitsutaka Commemoration study fund (only for students of the Department of Letters from

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) *Muneo Nakamura Study fund (only for students of the School of Law)

Campus

*Setagaya Campus: (Main campus) 4-28-1 Setagaya,

, Tokyo 154–8515, Japan *Machida Campus: Hirohakama, Machida, Tokyo, Japan 195-8550 *Tama Campus: Nagayama, Tama, Tokyo, Japan 206-8515 *Setagaya-Umegaoka Campus: 1223-1 Umegaoka, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

External relations

Setagaya Six Universities Consortium

In addition to Kokushikan University, the other participants in the Setagaya Six Universities Consortium (世田谷6大学コンソーシアム ''Setagaya Roku Daigaku Konsōshiamu'') are as follows: *

Komazawa University , abbreviated as 駒大 ''Komadai'', is one of the oldest universities in Japan. Its history starts in 1592, when a seminary was established to be a center of learning for the young monks of the Sōtō sect, one of the two main Zen Buddhist trad ...

* Seijo University *

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Tokyo University of Agriculture The , abbreviated as Nodai (農大, ''nōdai'') or Tokyo nodai (東京農大, ''Tōkyō nōdai''), is a private university of agriculture in Japan. There are three campuses: Setagaya, Atsugi, and Okhotsk (Abashiri). Outline Tokyo University ...

Musashi Institute of Technology , often called or TCU for short, is an engineering, environmental and information sciences focused private university located in Tokyo, Japan. The university has four campuses, the Setagaya campus close to the Tama River at Oyamadai, Setagay ...

Metropolitan west-area university credit transfer

Kokushikan University is in a credit transfer agreement with the following area schools: *

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* Sanno University * Den-en Chofu University *

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* Kamakura Women's University *

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Sister schools

Asia

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:* Soochow University :*

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Sebelas Maret University Sebelas Maret University ( id, Universitas Sebelas Maret'';'' it is colloquially known as UNS or UNS Solo) is an Indonesian public university in the suburban area of Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. It was officially founded on March 11, 197 ...

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Hanyang University Hanyang University (Korean: 한양대학교) is a private research university in South Korea. The main campus is located in Seoul and its satellite campus, the Education Research Industry Cluster (ERICA campus), is in Ansan. ''Hanyang'' (한양, ...

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Dong-Eui University Dong-Eui University is one of the leading private universities in Busan, a metropolitan city on the southeastern coast of South Korea. The university has 10 colleges, 116 master and doctoral courses in six graduate schools, with 22,992 students a ...

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North America

; Canada :*

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(one month language training program only) :* College of the Rockies (one month language training program only) ; United States :* St. John's University :*

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Europe

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:* National Sports Academy :*

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; Germany :* The University of Munich ;

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Far Eastern Federal University Far Eastern Federal University (russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный университе́т, ''Dalnevostochny federalny universitet'') is a university located in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. In 2022 the u ...

Research Institute

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:* The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage

Alumni

* Chubee Kagita, Diet member ( Liberal Democratic Party) *

Hitoshi Saito was a Japanese judoka who won two consecutive gold medals at the Olympic games.

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* Sadaki Nakabayashi once the highest ranking Judoka in the United States *

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, professional wrestler *

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* Ryota Hasegawa, The liar *

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Affiliated schools

*Kokushikan High School *Kokushikan Junior High School *Welfare Professional School of Kokushikan University

External links

(in Japanese,)
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