Hiroshima University

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Hiroshima University
founding	1929/1949
Sponsorship	state
place	Higashihiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture
country	Japan
management	Mitsuo Ochi
Students	15,856 (May 2010)
Employee	3,297 (May 2010)
Website	[1]

The Central Library on the Higashihiroshima campus

The University of Hiroshima ( Jap. 広島大学 , Hiroshima daigaku , short Hirodai ( 広大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is located in Higashihiroshima in Hiroshima Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 1949 through the merger of the following schools:

• Hiroshima University of Humanities and Natural Sciences ( 広 島 文 理科 大学 , Hiroshima bunrika daigaku , founded in 1929),
• Hiroshima Higher Normal School ( 広 島 高等 師範学校 , Hiroshima kōtō shihan gakkō , founded in 1902),
• the higher normal school for women Hiroshima ( 広 島 女子 高等 師範学校 , Hiroshima joshi kōtō shihan gakkō , founded in 1945),
• the Hiroshima High School ( 広 島 高等学校 , Hiroshima kōtō gakkō , founded 1923),
• the normal school Hiroshima ( 広 島 師範学校 , Hiroshima shihan gakkō , founded 1874),
• the normal youth school Hiroshima ( 広 島 青年 師範学校 , Hiroshima his shihan gakkō in Fukuyama , founded in 1922),
• the Hiroshima Technical Center ( 広 島 工業 専 門 学校 , Hiroshima kōgyō semmon gakkō , founded in 1920), and
• the Hiroshima Municipal Technical Center ( 広 島 市立 工業 専 門 学校 , Hiroshima-shiritsu kōgyō semmon gakkō , founded in 1945).

Hiroshima University in 1955

The former main building of the Hiroshima School of Humanities and Sciences, built in 1931

The Hiroshima School of Humanities and Natural Sciences, one of the forerunners of the university, was founded in 1902 as the Hiroshima Normal School, the second Normal School after Tokyo (founded in 1886, today: Tsukuba University ); the higher normal school ( 高等 師範学校 , kōtō shihan gakkō ) was the state educational institution to educate the teachers in the normal schools (educational institutions for elementary school teachers), middle schools, higher schools for girls. It served as the educational center of Western Japan. In 1918 the school founded the advanced course for moral education ( 徳 育 専 攻 科 , 2-year-olds), which in 1929 developed into a college for the humanities and natural sciences. On August 6, 1945 during the Pacific War , the college and higher normal school were badly damaged by the atomic bombing (they were about 1.5 kilometers away from the center of the explosion. 34 ° 22 ′ 55.4 ″  N , 132 ° 27 ′ 30.5 ″  E ). The wooden school buildings were destroyed, only the strong main building of the university survived the explosion. They lost about 130 professors, students and staff. The other predecessors of the university, apart from the normal youth school at that time in Akitakata , were also damaged by the atomic bombs (for example, the Hiroshima technical center lost 102 people).

Hiroshima University opened with six faculties: (1) Humanities, (2) Education, (3) Politics and Economics, (4) Natural Sciences, (5) Engineering, and (6) Fisheries and Animal Husbandry. In 1953, the former Hiroshima Prefectural Medical School ( 広 島 医科大学 , Hiroshima ika daigaku , founded in 1945) became the Faculty of Medicine. She then founded more faculties: Dentistry (1965), Interdisciplinary Sciences (1974), Law (1977), Economics (1977), Bioproduction (1979) and Pharmacy (2006).

The faculties were in the several small locations, so the university wanted a larger campus. In 1982 the new Higashihiroshima campus (about 2.5 km ² ) was opened and the faculties except the medical faculties (medicine and dentistry) and evening courses moved to the campus.

Faculties

• Higashihiroshima campus (in Higashihiroshima, 34 ° 24 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 132 ° 42 ′ 47.9 ″  E, coordinates: 34 ° 24 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 132 ° 42 ′ 47.9 ″  E ):
  • Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences (Japanese 総 合 科学 部 , English Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences )
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Bioproduction (Japanese 生物 生産 学部 , English Faculty of Applied Biological Science )
• Kasumi Campus (in Kasumi, Minami-ku , Hiroshima, 34 ° 22 ′ 47.9 ″  N , 132 ° 28 ′ 45.6 ″  E ):
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Pharmacy

The evening courses (law and economics) and graduate school for business people are located on the Higashisenda campus (in Higashisenda-chō, Naka-ku , Hiroshima, 34 ° 22 ′ 49.7 ″  N , 132 ° 27 ′ 26.5 ″  E ; der former campus of the Hiroshima School of Humanities and Sciences).

Graduates

• Tsutomu Yanagida

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Japan

Web links

Commons : Hiroshima University  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English and Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/about/president
2. ↑ ^{a b} HU by the Numbers ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in English: undergraduate 10,969, post-graduate 4,540, other students 12 + 335, professors and academic staff 1,770, other staff 8 + 1,519. Retrieved September 21, 2010.