Kyoto University

Kyoto University
京都大学

Motto	None
Established	Founded May 11869, Chartered Jun. 18, 1897
Type	Public (National)
Location	Kyoto, Kyoto Japan
Website	www.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Kyoto University (京都大学, Kyōto daigaku), abbreviated to Kyodai (京大, Kyōdai) is a national coeducational research university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university and one of the leading research universities in the country and in Asia.

It has a total of about 22,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs. The university advocates "traits of liberty" and conducts significant creative research. It is also the home of the Kyoto School group of philosophers.

History

The forerunner of the university was the Chemistry School (舎密局, Seimi-kyoku) founded in Osaka in 1869, which, despite its name, taught physics as well. Later, the Third Higher School (第三髙等學校]], Daisan kōtō gakkō) was established in the place of Seimi-kyoku in 1886, it then transferred to the university's present main campus in the same year.

Kyoto Imperial University (京都帝國大學, Kyōto teikoku daigaku) as a part of the Imperial University system was established in 1897, using the Third Higher School's buildings. The higher school moved to a patch of land just across the street, where the Yoshida South Campus stands today. In the same year of the university's establishment, the College of Science and Technology was founded. The College of Law and the College of Medicine were founded in 1899, the College of Letters in 1906, expanding the university's activities to areas outside natural science.

After World War II, the current Kyoto University was established by merging the imperial university and the Third Higher School, which assumed the duty of teaching liberal arts as the Faculty of Liberal Arts (教養部, Kyōyōbu). The faculty was dissolved with the foundation of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies (総合人間学部, Sōgō ningen gakubu) in 1992.

Kyoto University has since 2004 been incorporated as a national university corporation under a new law which applies to all national universities.

Despite the incorporation which has led to increased financial independence and autonomy, Kyoto University is still partly controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Education ( 文部科学省 , Monbu kagakushō, or Monkashō).

The current president is Kazuo Oike.

Campuses

The Clocktower

The university has three campuses in Yoshida, Kyoto; in Gokashō, Uji; and in Katsura, Kyoto.

Yoshida Campus is the main campus, with some laboratories located in Uji. The Graduate School of Engineering is currently under process of moving to the newly-built Katsura Campus.

Faculties and graduate schools

• Integrated Human Studies
• Letters
• Education
• Law
• Economics
• Science
• Medicine
  • University Hospital
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Engineering
• Agriculture
  • Experimental Farm
  • University Forests
  • Human and Environmental Studies
• Energy Science
• Asian and African Area Studies
• Informatics
• Bio-studies
• Global Environmental Studies

Research institutes, centers, and facilities

• Institute for Chemical Research
• Institute for Research in Humanities
• Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences
• Institute of Advanced Energy
• Wood Research Institute
  • Disaster Prevention Research Institute
• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Institute for Virus Research
• Institute of Economic Research
• Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• Research Reactor Institute
• Primate Research Institute
• Center for Southeast Asian Studies
• Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies
• Radiation Biology Center
• Radio Science Center for Space & Atmosphere
• Center for Ecological Research
• Radioisotope Research Center
• Environment Preservation Center
• Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Center for Student Exchange
• Research Center for Higher Education
• University Museum
  • International Innovation Center
• Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences
• Center for student Health
• Research Center for Sports Science
• Counseling Center
• University Archives
• Center for Archaeological Operations
• Center for African Area Studies
• KU-VBL (Venture Business Laboratory)
• Health and Medical Services

Notable alumni

Politics

• Osachi Hamaguchi Prime Minister of Japan
• Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister of Japan
• Tetsu Katayama Prime Minister of Japan
• Fumimaro Konoe Prime Minister of Japan
• Hayato Ikeda Prime Minister of Japan
• Lee Teng-hui President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Literature

• Kan Kikuchi
• Motojirō Kajii
• Tatsuji Miyoshi
• Shohei Ooka
• Yasushi Inoue
• Akimitsu Takagi crime fiction writer
• Sakyo Komatsu
• Keiichiro Hirano
• Yukito Ayatsuji
• Rintaro Norizuki

Science

• Hideki Yukawa physicist Nobel laureate
• Shinichiro Tomonaga physicist Nobel laureate
• Leo Esaki physicist Nobel laureate
• Kenichi Fukui chemist Nobel laureate
• Susumu Tonegawa biologist Nobel laureate
• Ryoji Noyori chemist Nobel laureate
• Heisuke Hironaka mathematician Fields Medal laureate
• Shigefumi Mori mathematician Fields Medal laureate
• Kiyoshi Oka mathematician
• Teiji Takagi mathematician
• Kinji Imanishi ecologist, anthropologist
• Motoo Kimura biologist
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa primatologist

Other

• Nagisa Oshima film director
• Kiyoshi Miki philosopher
• Takeshi Umehara philosopher
• Akira Asada philosopher
• Michio Morishima economist
• Junya Kondo founder of Hatena Co., Ltd.

See also

• Kikuchi Dairoku

External links

• Kyoto University Retrieved December 6, 2007.

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