is a

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in Okayama, Okayama,

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, established in 1964. It is predominantly a school of

science and engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

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From 2015–2018, Okayama University of Science's operator, the group Kake Gakuen, applied for permission to open a new school of

veterinary medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

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, across the water from Okayama on the island of Shikoku. This school would be a branch of the Okayama University of Science. The government's aid in sweeping away regulatory concerns and speeding the process ignited accusations of corruption, as Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍晋三, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 20 ...

was friends with the owner of Kake Gakuen, Kotaro Kake. In 2020, another controversy broke out after it was revealed that all ethnically Korean students applying to the university's recently added school of veterinary medicine in October 2019 were denied and failed with scores of zero (out of fifty) on their entrance examination.

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Graduates: *

Yu Suzuki is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimen ...

, an engineer and

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who worked for

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and helped implement many of their famous video games * Koji Mise, a baseball player for Okayama's college team that went on to the

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league Faculty: * Akira Suzuki, a chemist and Nobel Prize laureate who served as a visiting professor for a year in the chemistry department, from 1994–1995 *

Kent Gilbert Kent Sidney Gilbert (born May 25, 1952, in Idaho, United States) is an American commentator and tarento working in Japan, lawyer of California. He first came to Japan in 1971 as a Mormon missionary. After returning to the United States, he received ...

, a ''

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'' minor celebrity and proponent of revisionist far-right Japanese historiography that downplays Japanese war crimes in World War II

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Educational institutions established in 1964 Private universities and colleges in Japan Okayama Universities and colleges in Okayama Prefecture 1964 establishments in Japan Kansai Collegiate American Football League {{okayama-university-stub

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