Komazawa University

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Komazawa University
motto 行 学 一如
(uniting learning and practice)
信誠 敬愛
(truth, warmth, respect and love)
founding Priest school: 1592
modern school: Oct. 15, 1882
Sponsorship Private
place Setagaya , Tokyo
country Japan
Students 20,660 (May 2009)
Employee 601 (May 2009)
Website www.komazawa-u.ac.jp
Komazawa campus

The Komazawa University ( Japanese 駒 澤 大学 , Komazawa daigaku , short: Komadai ( 駒 大 )) is a private Buddhist ( Sōtō-shū ) university in Japan . The main campus is in Komazawa, Setagaya , Tokyo .

history

The university was founded in 1592 as a priestly school from the temple Kichijō-ji ( 吉祥寺 ) in Kanda -Surugadai. 1657, the temples pulled by a large fire to Komagome at ( 35 ° 43 '41.4 "  N , 139 ° 45' 15.9"  O ), and Priest school was in Sendan-rin ( 旃檀林 , dt. Literally " sandalwood " ) renamed. On October 15, 1882, after the Meiji Restoration , it became a modern school in Azabu (the name at that time was Sōtō-shū Daigakurin Semmongaku Honkō ( 曹洞宗 大学 林 専 門 学 本校 , dt. About "Hauptschule vom Sōtō-shū College") )). The Sōtō-shū college was recognized as a technical school in 1904 and was renamed in 1905 in Sōtō-shū Daigaku ( 曹洞宗 大学 , German "Sōtō-shū college").

In 1913, today's Komazawa campus was opened and the university moved to the campus. In 1925 it received university status and was renamed Komazawa University. Only now have women been admitted to university. In 1949 the university was reorganized under the new Japanese education system and established three faculties: Buddhist Studies , Humanities and Economics. She added faculties: Law (1964), Business Administration (1969), Health Studies (2003), and Global Media Studies (2006).

Faculties

  • Buddhist studies
  • Humanities
  • Economics
  • Jurisprudence
  • Business administration
  • Health studies (Japanese 医療 健康 科学 部 , English Faculty of Health Sciences ; training course for radiology technologists )
  • Global Media Studies

The faculties are located on the Komazawa campus. There are sports facilities in the Tamagawa campus ( 35 ° 37 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 139 ° 36 ′ 30.9 ″  E ) and research institutes in the new Fukasawa campus (since 2006; 35 ° 37 ′ 30 ″  N , 139 ° 39 ′ 18.7 ″  O ).

Associated short colleges and high schools

The university had three other subsidiary short-term colleges ( Tanki Daigaku ) and three secondary schools.

The Komazawa Short College ( 駒 澤 短期 大学 ) was established on the Komazawa campus in 1950, offering degrees in Buddhist Studies, Japanese and English Literature, and closed on October 30, 2009. Tomakomai ( 駒 Kurz 大学 苫 小 牧 短期 大学 ) was founded on Tomakomai Campus in 1965 , offered degrees in Japanese and English literature, and closed on September 30, 2003. The Komazawa-Kurzhochschule Iwamizawa ( 岩 見 沢 駒 澤 短期 大学 ) on the Iwamizawa campus existed from 1965 to October 12, 1989 and taught Japanese literature.

In 1948 the Komazawa University High School ( 駒 澤 大学 高等学校 , Komazawa Daigaku Kōtō Gakkō ) was founded, which in 1995 was converted from a boys' school to a co-educational school. Iwamizawa High School ( 駒 澤 大学 附属 岩 見 沢 高等学校 , short: Komadai High School Iwamizawa) existed from January 28, 1964 to March 31, 2014 on the Tomakomai campus. The university- affiliated Tomakomai High School ( 駒 澤 大学 附属 苫 小 kurz 高等学校 , short: Komadai High School Tomakomai) was founded on April 18, 1964 and is known for its baseball and ice hockey teams, which regularly win the respective national high school championships.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 駒 澤 大学: 学生 数 ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 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 notice. (Komazawa University: Student Numbers), Japanese: Undergraduate 16,322, Post-Graduate 327, accessed April 23, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.komazawa-u.ac.jp
  2. ↑ 駒 澤 大学: 教職員 数 ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2010 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. (Komazawa University: number of staff), Japanese: research staff (full-time) 354, other staff (full-time) 247, accessed April 23, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.komazawa-u.ac.jp

Coordinates: 35 ° 37 ′ 46.2 ″  N , 139 ° 39 ′ 30.3 ″  E