Kokugakuin
The Kokugakuin Daigaku ( Jap. 國學院大學 , internationally known as Kokugakuin University ) is a private Japanese university with locations in Shibuya , Tokyo , and Aoba-ku , Yokohama . There are also buildings and facilities in Sagamihara , but they are hardly used.
In 2006 about 11,000 students studied there. Kogaku-in and Nihon Universities , Japan's largest universities, are sister schools.
Teaching
As part of its undergraduate courses (for BA and MA ), the university has faculties of literature (with departments in philosophy , history , foreign languages and cultural studies , Japanese literature and Chinese literature ), law , economics (with departments in economics, socio-economic networking and Corporate governance ) and Shinto studies.
There is also a graduate school (for Ph.D. ) with schools for literature (degrees in Shinto studies, Japanese literature and history), law and economics, and there is also a law school.
With its offers, Kokugaku-in offers one of the few opportunities at Japanese universities to receive officially recognized training as a Shinto priest.
research
After the capitulation of Japan , the university had to dissolve its main project, the Kōten Kōkyūjo ("Research Center for Japanese Classics") due to the Shintō directive (see State Shintō ) . In the course of the reorganization of the university in post-war Japan, work was carried out for several years to establish a new research facility for Japanese culture. With financial help from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ise-jingū , this goal was finally achieved and the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics (IJCC, 國 學院 大學 日本 文化 研究所 ) was founded in mid-1955 . The IJCC's research focuses on basic research on the culture of Japan and questions relating to the beliefs and morals of the Japanese people.
One of the most ambitious projects of the IJCC is the gradual online publication of the Shinto jiten (standard encyclopedia on the subject of Shintō), completed in 1994, in English with the collaboration of internationally renowned Japanologists . The contents of the Encyclopedia of Shinto are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
The Archaeological Museum is in possession of over eighty thousand artifacts, about three thousand of which are typically on display. Artifacts include Paleolithic finds from the Shirataki ( Hokkaidō ), Omekura ( Nagano ) and Kosaka (Nagano) sites . Twenty thousand artifacts date from the Jōmon period . There are also Japanese artifacts from the Yayoi and Kofun periods . The inventory of foreign material consists mainly of artifacts from mainland China and the Korean peninsula, particularly from the Neolithic , as well as the Yin and Han dynasties . The holdings also contain archaeological material from the Philippines , Thailand , Indonesia , islands in the Pacific Ocean and North and South America .
history
Until the end of World War II
In November 1882 the forerunner of the university, Kōten Kōkyūjo (皇 典 講究 所; Research Institute for the Japanese Classics ) was founded in Chiyoda- ku, Tokyo. The opening ceremonies took place on November 4th with Prince Arisugawa Takahito as its first director . July 1890 Kōten Kōkyūjo was renamed Kokugakuin (Institute for National Studies ). The three majors on offer at the time were Japanese History , Japanese Literature, and Japanese Law.
In accordance with the Vocational Schools Act, the institute was raised to the rank of vocational school in April 1904 and renamed Private Kokugakuin University (私立 國 學院 大學) in June 1906 . In September 1919, the name was finally renamed: Kokugaku-in Daigaku .
Immediately after the law to establish universities was promulgated, the Kokugakuin was granted university status in April 1920. It was one of the first eight officially recognized private universities in Japan (the others at that time were Keiō , Waseda , Meiji , Hōsei , Chūō , Nihon and Dōshisha ).
In May 1923 the new campus building was completed on the current site of the University of Shibuya.
In 1927, the department for the training of Shinto priests was set up. In the same year the university library was completed.
In 1928, the Archaeological Archive (later the Archaeological Museum) was established by Kiyoyuki Higuchi.
After the end of the Second World War
In 1946 the original Koten Kokyujo was dissolved and the Kokugakuin University was re-established as a private foundation. It was one of the first universities in Japan to introduce a coeducational school system. In 1947 night courses were established for the undergraduate school, then in 1948 day courses for the newly created Faculty of Literature and in 1949 evening courses for the Faculty of Literature and day courses for the Faculty of Political Science. In April 1948 the Kogaku-in was again recognized by the state as a university under the educational reform of the time.
In April 1950 the Faculty of Political Science was renamed the Faculty of Politics and Economics.
In 1951 the university acquired the status of an educational foundation. In the same year evening classes were set up for the Faculty of Politics and Economics and a Masters program in Japanese Literature and Shinto Studies. 1952 followed a master's program in Japanese history. The University's Archaeological Archives received the status of a regular museum from the Ministry of Education.
In 1953, PhD programs in Japanese Literature and Japanese History were established.
In 1954 an attached kindergarten was built. A training program for kindergarten teachers followed in the following year. Also in 1955 the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics (IJCC) was established.
In 1958, degrees in Shinto studies for the formation of high-level Shinto priests and a PhD program in Shinto studies were established.
The Faculty of Law was established for the 80th anniversary of the university in 1963. The Shinto Study Showroom, the forerunner of the Shinto Museum, also opened.
In April 1965, the evening course for the Law Faculty was set up, as was the Orikuchi Memorial Institute.
Instead of the Faculty of Politics and Economics, which closed in April 1966, day and evening courses were established in the Faculty of Economics.
Comprehensive new programs were established in the following years: a Masters Degree in Law in 1967, a Masters Degree in Economics in 1968, a Doctorate in Law in 1969, and a Doctorate in Economics in 1970.
The archaeological archive was renamed in 1975 and is now called the Archaeological Museum.
In 1982 the university celebrated its 100th anniversary, confirming the continuity that it had maintained since 1882. The memorial hall for this occasion was not completed until 1984. Also in 1982, the Kokugakuin Women's Junior College opened its doors.
In 1985, the campus in Tama Plaza in the Aoba district of Yokohama was completed.
In April 1991, the Kokugakuin Women's Junior College was renamed Kokugakuin Junior College and adopted a coeducational school model.
Various courses were introduced in 1995: one-day courses in Japanese literature, Chinese literature, foreign languages and cultural studies in the literature department; Day courses for economic networking, as well as night courses for Industry Consumption Information in the Department of Economics.
In 1996, the Faculty of Literature's Day Course established departments in Japanese Literature, Chinese Literature and Foreign Languages, and Foreign Cultures. In the same year, the day course of the Faculty of Economics established a department for Socio-Economic Networking, the evening course in the same faculty established a department for Industrial and Consumer Communication.
Also in 1996 the Sagamihara campus was officially opened.
In March 1997 the International Exchange Center was established as a research center for visiting researchers. Two years later the K-STEP (Kokugakuin Short-Term Exchange Program) followed , a program for the short-term exchange of students with partner universities.
In 2001, day and night courses were introduced in the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Law.
In 2002, the first phase of the overhaul of the Shibuya campus began, which is expected to last eight years. In the same year, the Faculty of Shinto Studies was set up with day and night courses.
Also in 2002, the Establishment of a National Learning Institute for the Dissemination of Research on Shinto and Japanese Culture was launched by MEXT (Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) for the 21st century COE program (a To promote competition among Japanese universities and to develop internationally first-class research branches in Japan) in the field of humanities.
See also
Web links
- Kokugakuin University Official Website - Japanese and English
- Official website of the IJCC - English and Japanese
- Encyclopedia of Shinto - English
- Museum of Archeology - English
- Shinto Museum - Japanese and English
Footnotes
- ↑ MEXT press release ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - PDF, English
- ↑ Summary of Kokugakuin University - PDF, English
