is a

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located in Higashihiroshima and

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...

, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions.

History

Under the National School Establishment Law, Hiroshima University was established on May 31, 1949. After

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, the school system in Japan was entirely reformed and each of the institutions of higher education under the pre-war system was reorganized. As a general rule, one national university was established in each prefecture, and Hiroshima University became a national university under the new system by combining the pre-war higher educational institutions in Hiroshima Prefecture. The following eight schools were integrated or merged into Hiroshima University under the new system of education. * * - also translated "Hiroshima School of Secondary Education" * - also translated "Hiroshima Women's School of Secondary Education" * * - also translated "Hiroshima School of Education" * - also translated "Hiroshima Young Men's Normal School" or "Hiroshima School of Education for Youth" * * In 1953-1956, consolidated into Hiroshima University. Some of these institutions were already notable. Above all, Hiroshima School of Secondary Education, founded in 1902, had a distinguished place as one of the nation's two centers for training middle school teachers. The Hiroshima University of Literature and Science was founded in 1929 as one of the national universities and, with the Hiroshima School of Secondary Education which was formerly affiliated to it, were highly notable. The present Hiroshima University, which was created from these two institutions as well as three other "old-system" training institutions for teachers, continues to hold an important position among the universities and colleges in Japan. Hiroshima Higher Technical School, which has many alumnae in the manufacturing industry, was founded in 1920 and was promoted to a Technical College (''Senmon Gakko'') in 1944. Hiroshima Higher School was founded in 1923 as one of the pre-war higher schools which prepared students for Imperial and other government-supported universities. Although these institutions suffered a great deal of damage due to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, they were reconstructed and combined to become the new Hiroshima University. Graduate schools were established in 1953. After completing the reconstruction, in order to seek wider campus, the relocation to local area( Higashihiroshima) was planned and decided by 1972. Hiroshima University relocated to Higashihiroshima from Hiroshima City between 1982 and 1995. In Hiroshima City, there are still some Campuses (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Graduate School in these fields in Kasumi Campus and Law School and Center for Research on Regional Economic System in Higashi-Senda Campus).

Schools and graduate schools

Schools

*School of Law *School of Economics *School of Letters *School of Education *School of Integrated Arts and Sciences *School of Engineering *School of Science *School of Medicine *School of Dentistry *School of Pharmaceutical Sciences *School of Applied Biological Science

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter *Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences *Graduate School of Biosphere Science *Graduate School of Education *Graduate School of Engineering *Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences *Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation *Graduate School of Letters *Graduate School of Science *Graduate School of Social Sciences *Law School

Research institutes

Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden operated by Hiroshima University and located at Mitsumaruko-yama 1156-2, Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan. It is open daily except New Years and August; admission is free. The garden was established in 1964 ...

*Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine *Institute for Peace Science *Research Institute for Higher Education

Campus

*Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, Kagami-yama 1-chome, Higashihiroshima *Kasumi Campus, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku,

*Higashisenda Campus, 1-1-89, Higashi-senda-machi, Naka-ku,

Notable alumni

;Politics *

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alumni of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance *

Osamu Fujimura is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Early life and education A native of Osaka, Osaka, Fujimura was born on 3 November 1949. He s ...

- member of the National Diet, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister of State *

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- member of the National Diet *

Chōbyō Yara was a Japanese politician. He served as the Chief Executive of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1968–1972) and Governor of Okinawa Prefecture (1972–1976). He graduated from Hiroshima Higher Normal School (now Hiroshima University). B ...

alumni of Hiroshima Higher Normal School - Chief Executive of the

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, Governor of

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* Yura Halim - Chief Minister (Menteri Besar) of

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, Brunei Ambassador to Japan ;Business *

Takeshi Taketsuru Takeshi Taketsuru ( ja, 竹鶴威, 6 March 1924 – 17 December 2014) was a Japanese whisky distiller. He was the nephew of Masataka Taketsuru, from his sister Nobuyo, and his wife Rita Taketsuru , born Jessie Roberta Cowan, was a Scottish-Japanes ...

alumni of Hiroshima Higher Technical School - President of

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;Academic *

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- scholar of education, education reformer, founder of Tamagawa Gakuen and

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Shintaro Uda was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku Imperial University, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector an ...

- engineer, Professor Emeritus at

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, IEEE Milestone, Japan Academy Prize * Yoshio Koide - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at

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* Tsutomu Yanagida - physicist, Professor Emeritus at

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, Nishina Memorial Prize *

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- engineer, Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, Steven A. Coons Award * Akinori Noma - physiologists, Professor Emeritus at

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Katsuya Kodama is a Japanese peace researcher and sociologist specialized in the research of non-violent peace activism, study on Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, refugee issues, foreign workers, and peace-building. He is a current Secretary-General of I ...

- peace researcher and sociologist, Vice-President of

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at UNESCO *

Tsuguo Hongo was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the biogeography and taxonomy of Agaricales. Hongo entered the Department of Biology at what is now Hiroshima University in 1943, where he studied botany until graduating in 1946 with a B.Sc. Hongo rec ...

- mycologist, Professor Emeritus at

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* Akira Miyawaki - botanist, Professor Emeritus at

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- biologist *

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- historian of science, Professor Emeritus at

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* Kazuyoshi Kinoalumni of Hiroshima Higher School - Buddhist scholar ;Culture *

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- author of fiction,

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left the school - manga artist * Kōhei Kiyasu - voice actor, actor, scriptwriter * Akira Sakata - free jazz saxophonist *

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- architect,

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Praemium Imperiale Prince Takamatsu The Praemium Imperiale ( ja, 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu-no-miya Denka Kinen Sekai Bunka-shō, World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu) is an international art prize inaugur ...

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, Order of Culture *

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- author of fiction and literary critic,

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, Mainichi Publishing Culture Award,

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for Literature, Japan Art Academy Prize & Imperial Prize of the Japan Art Academy,

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* Toshiyuki Kajiyama - author of fiction and journalist ;Others * Sunao Tsuboi - anti-nuclear and anti-war activist

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External links

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