Konan University
| Konan University | |
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| founding | 1919/1951 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| president | Yoshiyuki Nagasaka |
| Students | 9,217 (May 2008) |
| Website | www.konan-u.ac.jp |
The Kōnan University ( Japanese 甲 南 大学 , Kōnan daigaku ) is a private university in Okamoto, Higashinada-ku , Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture (Japan).
The name Kōnan means "south of the mountain Rokkō ".
history
The school was founded in 1919 by the businessman Hachisaburō Hirao ( 平生 釟 三郎 , 1866–1945) as the (older) Kōnan Middle School ( 甲 南中 学校 , Kōnan chūgakkō ). Its aim was to develop students' characteristics through respect for personality. The school developed in 1923 to the (older) Kōnan high school ( 甲 南 高等学校 , Kōnan kōtō gakkō ), 7-year school (age: 12-19). It served the sons of the entrepreneurs in Kansai as a preparatory course for the Imperial Universities .
After the Pacific War it became the Kōnan Middle School (1947; 3-year school), Kōnan High School (1948; 3-year-old) and Kōnan University (1951; 4-year-old).
The university initially had only one faculty (humanities and natural sciences), which was divided into two faculties in 1957. She then added more faculties: Economics (1952), Law (1960), Business Administration (1960), Intelligence and Computer Science (2008), Administration and Creation (Japanese マ ネ ジ メ ン ト 創造 学部 , English Hirao School of Management ; April 2009), and bio- and nanotechnology (Japanese フ ロ ン テ ィ ア サ イ エ ン ス 学部 , English Faculty of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology , short: FIRST; April 2009).
In the 1995 Kobe earthquake , 37 students, high school and college students and university graduates died. Five school buildings were destroyed, including the former main building of the older Kōnan High School; these were rebuilt in 1997.
Faculties
- Okamoto-Campus (in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, 34 ° 43 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 135 ° 16 ′ 6.2 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Natural and Engineering Sciences
- Faculty of Intelligence and Computer Science
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Port Island Campus (in Chūō-ku, Kōbe, Hyōgo, 34 ° 39 ′ 11.5 ″ N , 135 ° 13 ′ 7.4 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Bio- and Nanotechnology ( Faculty of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology , short: FIRST)
- Nishinomiya campus (in Nishinomiya , Hyōgo, 34 ° 44 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 135 ° 21 ′ 28.5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Administration and Creation ( Hirao School of Management )
See also
Web links
- Official website - Japanese and English
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.konan-u.ac.jp/english/history/
- ↑ https://www.konan-u.ac.jp/kiec/english/about-konan.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 17, 2009 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 note. 学生 数 (Number of students, in Japanese): Undergraduates 8,769, Graduates 448.
