, or SIST, is a

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Fukuroi, Shizuoka 270px, Shizuoka Stadium is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 88,395 in 34,842 households, and a population density of 820 persons per km². The total area of the city was . Fukuroi is a memb ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1940 as a

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. It was chartered as a university in 1991, specializing in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

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and

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. The university has approximately 1500 students in two faculties: the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Comprehensive Informatics. The university has reciprocal relationships with

Daegu University Daegu University is a private university in South Korea. Its campus is located a short distance outside Daegu, in Gyeongsan City, North Gyeongsang province. The school currently consists of 13 colleges from college of humanities to college of r ...

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and

Zhejiang Gongshang University Zhejiang Gongshang University (; abbreviated as ZJGSU or ZJSU) is a public higher educational institution that focuses on the fields of social science. The university is administrated by Zhejiang Province. "Zhejiang" is the province where the un ...

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