Aichi University

Aichi University
founding	1901/1946
Sponsorship	Private
place	Toyohashi , Aichi Prefecture
country	Japan
President and Chairman of the Board of Trustee	Shinichi Kawai
Students	9,756 (May 2008)
Employee	415 (May 2008)
Website	www.aichi-u.ac.jp

Entrance to the Toyohashi campus

Memorial Museum (former main building)

The Aichi University ( Jap. 愛知大学 , Aichi daigaku ) is a private university in Japan . The main campus is located in Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture .

The name Aichi ( 愛 知 ) comes from the translation of the Greek word φιλοσοφία ( philosophia , literally: "Love of wisdom"; see: Philosophy ), not only from the prefectural name.

history

The university was founded in November 1946 by the former professors and students of Tōa-Dōbunshoin University ( 東 亜 同 文書 院 大学 ), which was in Shanghai until August 1945 . The Tōa-Dōbunshoin was founded in 1901 by the Japanese Tōa-Dōbun Society ( 東 亜 同 文 会 , Tōa dōbun kai ; Tōa denotes "East Asia", Dōbun "people with the same characters "). It served the Japanese students in China as a research center for modern sinology . In 1939 it achieved university status. In August 1945, when Japan was defeated in the Pacific War , the school buildings were occupied by the Chinese administration and the professors and students returned to Japan.

After China became a communist state in 1949, the university continued its studies in China, and in 1968 it published a Chinese-Japanese dictionary ( 中 日 大 辞典 , Chū-nichi dai jiten ). She established the China Studies Department in the Graduate School in 1991, then the Modern China Studies Department in 1997.

The main campus (Toyohashi Campus) was the former seat of a military base of the Japanese army , and the old main building (built in 1908) now serves as a museum for the history of the university.

Faculties

The new Nagoya campus opened in April 2012 , and the faculties (excluding the humanities and regional politics) moved to the new campus.

• Toyohashi Campus (in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, 34 ° 44 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 137 ° 23 ′ 11.5 ″  E, Coordinates: 34 ° 44 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 137 ° 23 ′ 11.5 ″  E ):
  • Humanities
  • Regional policy
• Nagoya Campus (in Sasashima, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, 35 ° 9 ′ 40.2 ″  N , 136 ° 53 ′ 3.6 ″  E ):
  • Jurisprudence
  • Business administration
  • Economics
  • Modern China Studies
  • International communication science

Graduate schools (except humanities) are since April 2012 in Kurumamichi campus (in Higashi-ku, Nagoya, 35 ° 10 '27.8 "  N , 136 ° 55' 39.6"  O ) are offered.

Well-known professors

• Hozumi Toshihiko , professor for the history of economics, translator of Rudolf Hilferding's works into Japanese.

Well-known graduates

• Hitoki Iwase , baseball player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.aichi-u.ac.jp/english/about/history
2. ↑ http://www.aichi-u.ac.jp/english/about/message
3. ↑ 2008 （平 成 20） 年度 事業 報告 書. (PDF; 6.0 MB) Aichi University, 2008, p. 6 , archived from the original on January 20, 2012 ; Retrieved May 31, 2019 (Japanese, original website no longer available (Aichi University: Annual Report 2008, Undergraduate 8,956, Post-Graduate 164 + 167, 2-year courses ( tanki daigaku courses) 469)).  
4. ↑ 2008 （平 成 20） 年度 事業 報告 書. (PDF; 6.0 MB) Aichi University, 2008, p. 3 , archived from the original on January 20, 2012 ; Retrieved May 31, 2019 (Japanese, original website no longer available (Aichi University: Annual Report 2008, professors and research assistants 257, others 158)).  
5. ^ Aichi University: History of Aichi University , in English.
6. ^ New Nagoya campus in 2012 , accessed on May 18, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Aichi University  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese and English)