, abbreviated to , is a

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located in

Kagoshima , abbreviated to , is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern wor ...

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

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Kagoshima University Korimoto Campus CKU20106-C10-38

Kagoshima University Medical And Dental Hospital 200806

History

The university was established in 1949 consolidating the following schools because of

educational reform in occupied Japan Educational reform in occupied Japan (August 1945-April 1952) encompasses changes in philosophy and goals of education; nature of the student-teacher relationship; coeducation; the structure of compulsory education system; textbook content and pro ...

. * - established in 1901. The school was located on the former site of

Kagoshima Castle , also known as Tsurumaru Castle, was a Japanese castle located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. History Kagoshima Castle was constructed in 1601 by Matsudaira Iehisa, head of the Shimazu clan and the first ''daimyō'' of the Satsuma Domai ...

. It is one of the schools that originats from the

han school The was an educational institution in the Edo period of Japan, originally established to educate children of ''daimyō'' (feudal lords) and their retainers in the domains outside of the capital. These institutions were also known as ''hangaku' ...

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

. * - The oldest predecessor was established in 1875. * - established in 1944. * - established in 1908. * - established in 1946. The following schools became in 1949 and were consolidated into Kagoshima University in 1955. * - established in 1945. * - established as in 1942. It originats from the medical school in Kagoshima in

Meiji era The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization b ...

. These seven schools became , , , , and in 1949. "Faculty of Arts and Sciences" was divided into , and in 1965. was added in 1977. was separated from "Faculty of Agriculture" in 2012. Also Graduate Schools have been added gradually.Kagoshima University(in English) Faculties & Graduate Schools
on 2021-08-31

Faculties

* Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities * Faculty of Education * Faculty of Science * Faculty of Medicine * Faculty of Dentistry * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Agriculture * Faculty of Fisheries * Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Points of interest

Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden operated by the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University. It is located at 1291 Ju-cho, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Japan. The garden contains useful plants of tropical and subtropical origin for student education and geneti ...

Notable alumni

; Politics *

Wataru Kubo was a Japanese politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and then from Democratic Party of Japan. He served as deputy prime minister and finance minister of Japan from 5 January 1996 to 7 November 1996. Early life and education Kubo w ...

alumni of Kagoshima Normal School - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance *

Seiichi Ōmura was a politician and bureaucrat in the early Shōwa period Japan, who subsequently was a politician and cabinet minister in the immediate post-war era. Biography Ōmura was born in Tsuyama, Okayama. After his graduation from the Law School of ...

alumni of Kagoshima College of Agriculture and Forestry - member of the National Diet, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of State for Director General of the Defense Agency, bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Education) *

Shigenori Tōgō (10 December 1882 – 23 July 1950), was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Axis–Allied conflict during World War II. He also served as Minister of Colonial Affairs in 1941, and assume ...

alumni of Seventh Higher School Zoshikan - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs *

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- bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry), Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, member of the National Diet *

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- member of the National Diet, Minister of State for Director General of the Science and Technology Agency *

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- member of the National Diet, Minister of Health and Welfare, Minister of Construction, Minister of State for Director General of National Land Agency, Minister of State for Director General of Administrative Management Agency *

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- Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice *

Morio Takahashi was a Japanese politician.『朝日新聞』（東京本社発行）1957年5月6日夕刊7頁。 He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He was mayor of Kumamoto (1922-1925) and governor of Shiga Prefect ...

- bureaucrat, the mayor of

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City, government-appointed governor of prefectures, Superintendent General of Japanese police *

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- politician in the early

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Zhou Fohai Zhou Fohai (; Hepburn: ''Shū Futsukai''; May 29, 1897 – February 28, 1948), Chinese politician, and second-in-command of the Executive Yuan in Wang Jingwei's collaborationist Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China during t ...

- politician in Republic of China *

Kamejiro Senaga (June 10, 1907 – October 5, 2001) was a politician, journalist, also Mayor of Naha city. Senaga was an outspoken critic of American oppression on Okinawa and was imprisoned by American military authorities for sheltering Communists. He was a ...

left the school during the term - the mayor of

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City, member of the National Diet *

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- member of the National Diet ;Business *

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- founder of

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Corporation and

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Corporation, Honorary Chairman of Kyocera and

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;Academic *

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride ( GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness ...

- engineer and physicist, Professor Emeritus at

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, Distinguished Professor at

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in Physics,

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IEEE Edison Medal The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this fi ...

Kyoto Prize The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...

, Japan Academy Prize &

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Akira Arimura was a professor of medicine at Tulane University, and the founding Director of the university's Hébert Research Center, working on neuroendocrinology and biochemistry research. He died in 2007 of multiple myeloma. His books have been collected ...

- neuroscientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at

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in America * Kikuo Arakawa - medical scientist, cardiovascular scientist, internist, World Hypertension League Award, International Society of Hypertension Distinguished Fellow Award, Professor Emeritus at

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, the 12th President of the International Society of Hypertension * Kikuo Ogyū - medical scientist, internist, Professor Emeritus at

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, the President and Professor Emeritus at

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* Hiroshi Enatsu - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at

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Arika Kimura . was a Japanese botanist and specialist in the Salicaceae, or willow family. He was a professor of botany at the University of Tokyo and at Tohoku University. Kimura was also the first director of the Botanical Garden of Tohoku University. A spe ...

- botanist, the first director of the

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- entomologist, Professor at

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- scholar of education, education reformer, founder of

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and

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;Culture *

Shinobu Kaitani is a Japanese manga artist. His most notable works are '' One Outs'' and ''Liar Game''. Shinobu is from Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture. He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School and from Department of Electronics Engineerin ...

- manga artist *

Kawataro Nakajima was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular culture Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or m ...

- literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University,

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, *

Kōichi Iiboshi was a Japanese journalist for ''Yomiuri Shinbun'' and author. Career Iiboshi graduated from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (now Kagoshima University) and from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University. He was the vice copy chief of the social news divisio ...

- author * Kiyoteru Hanada - literary critic *

Hideyo Amamoto was a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original '' Kamen Rider'' series as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and the ''Godzilla'' series. Amamoto also ...

- actor *

Takashi Nomura Takashi Nomura (野村孝) (February 18, 1927 – May 5, 2015) was a Japanese film director for studios including Nikkatsu. The Criterion Collection described him as a "prominent, stylistically daring director". In 1955, he joined Nikkatsu Film c ...

- film director *

Shirō Fukai was a Japanese composer.The Japan biographical encyclopedia & who's who: Issue 3 Rengō Puresu Sha - 1964 "FUKAI Shiro (1907- ) Composer. Musical critic. Born in Akita Prefecture. Graduated from the Science Section of the Seventh Higher School ( ...

- composer ;Others *

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- wrestler, Olympics bronze medalist * Kogoro Yamazaki - the first Chief of Staff of the Maritime Self Defense Force

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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