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Kyushu University
九州大学
Established:	Founded 1903, Chartered 1911
Type:	Public (National)
President:	Chisato Kajiyama
Faculty:	2,311
Undergraduates:	11,689
Postgraduates:	9,128
Location:	Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Campus:	Urban, -- acres (2.4 km²)
Mascot:	None
Website:	www.kyushu-u.ac.jp

New Hospital bldg

Campus of Maidashi area in prior to Greater East Asia War
(This picture exists in Department of Medicine attachment library (付属図書館医学分館, Fuzoku Toshokan Igaku Bunkan^?)

Kyushu University (九州大学, Kyūshū Daigaku^?), abbreviated to Kyudai (九大, Kyūdai^?), is one of Japan's most prestigious national universities and the largest public university on the island of Kyūshū. It is located in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka.

Despite the incorporation which has led to increased financial independence and autonomy, Kyushu University is still partly controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbukagakusho, or Monkasho).

There are a total of 1,292 foreign students (as of May 1, 2008)enrolled in the University. Easily among the top 3 (after Tokyo University and Osaka University) destination of foreign students.

The Faculty of Law, Kyushu University initiated Japan's first English language LL.M program in October 1994. Taught from a Japanese perspective, the one year program offers students the opportunity to study international economic and business law, and Japanese and comparative law in a Japanese law faculty. A three-year LL.D. program and another one-year Master’s course in Comparative Studies of Politics and Administration in Asia (CSPA) were launched in October 1999. As a result of the success of these programs, in 2001, Kyushu University was invited by the Ministry of Education to host the Young Leader's Program in Law, a program which, among others, seeks to foster good relations among future national leaders in Asia and other countries.

[edit] History

After initially being founded as Fukuoka Medical College in 1903, a campus associated with Kyoto Imperial University, Kyūshū Imperial University was established as a separate entity in 1911.

Following World War II, Kyūshū Imperial University gained infamy as officials acknowledged that eight American POWs (Crew of B-29 Superfortress) had been vivisected at Kyūshū Imperial University Hospital in May and June, 1945 under the direction of the Japanese military and Professor Fukujiro Ishiyama. In 1947, Kyūshū Imperial University was renamed to Kyushu University.

On October, 2003, Kyushu University and Kyūshū Institute of Design officially amalgamated into a single university, with Kyushu Institute of Design becoming Kyushu University's Ohashi Campus.

In 2004 Kuyushu University was incorporated as a national university corporation under a new law which applies to all national universities.

[edit] Undergraduate Schools and Graduate Schools/Faculties

[edit] Undergraduate Schools

• School of Letters
• School of Education
• School of Law
• School of Economics
• School of Sciences
• School of Medicine
• School of Dentistry
• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• School of Engineering
• School of Design
• School of Agriculture
• The 21st Century Program

[edit] Graduate Schools and Graduate Faculties

[edit] Research Institutes

• Medical Institute of Bioregulation
• Research Center for Genetic Information
• Research Center for Prevention of Infectious Diseases
• Research Institute for Applied Mechanics
• Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
• [2] Asian Law Centre
• Center for Conflict Management

[edit] Street

Generally in the campus of Imperial Universities, there are statues commemorating famous alumni, but in the Maidashi campus of Kyushu university, streets are named after them.

• Ohmori dōri (大森通り, '^?)
• Miyairi dōri (宮入通り, '^?)

• Kubo dōri (久保通り, '^?) 　

Hashimoto street (橋本通り, Hashimoto dōri?)

Inada street (稲田通り, Inada dōri?)

Tawara street (田原通り, Tawara dōri?)

Guide board of Tawara dōri

[edit] Statues

Prof.,Dr.Ohmori Harutoyo

Prof.,Dr.Takeya Hiroshi

[edit] Famous alumni

[edit] M.D.

• Hashimoto Hakaru (橋本策, '^?)

[edit] Others

• Kyo-ichi Katayama
• Yasushi Inoue
• Ko-ichi Wakata (若田 光一):cosmonaut
• Shimao, Toshio
• NAKAGAWA, Ichiro (中川一郎):statesman
• Tomihisa Taue

(Comma indicates Japanese order: surname first)

[edit] Former Professor

[edit] M.D.

• Ohmori Harutoyo (大森治豊, '^?)
• Inada Ryukichi (稲田龍吉, '^?)

Tawara Sunao (田原淳, '?)

Takeya Hiroshi (武谷廣, '?)

[edit] See also

• Imperial university
• Kyushu Institute of Design
• Kyoto University
• Maidashi kyudai byoin mae

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Graduate School of Law - Programs in English
• Kyushu University Annual Law Conference Website
• Guía de Ciudades: Fukuoka

[edit] Gallery

Coop As for the building, the former ward of the 1st surgery is used.[1]

East entrance

[edit] References

1. ^ This building was dismantled in 2008.