Nagasaki University
| Nagasaki University | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1857/1949 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Nagasaki , Nagasaki Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| management | Shigeru catamines |
| Students | 9,150 (October 2008) |
| Website | www.nagasaki-u.ac.jp |
The University of Nagasaki ( Jap. 長崎大学 , Nagasaki daigaku , short Chōdai ( 長大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is in Bunkyō-machi, Nagasaki .
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The university has its origins in the Medical School founded in 1857 ( 医学 伝 習 所 , Igaku denshūjo ) of the Nagasaki-'Governorate, which administered the city directly subordinate to the central government. The first teacher, Johannes LC Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829–1908), a graduate of the Medical School of the Navy in Utrecht , introduced a curriculum based on the Western model. It was here that medicine was first taught on the basis of the natural sciences. The school, renamed Seitokukan ( 精 得 館 ) in 1865, and the hospital attached to it therefore mark the beginning of modern medicine in Japan.
The educational institution, which was transferred to a public institution after the Meiji Restoration , was closed in 1874; however, the clinic was retained. In 1876 a medical school was opened again. This was transferred to the Medical Department of the State Fifth Higher Middle School in 1887 ( 第五 高等 中 学校 医学 部 , Dai-go kōtō chūgakkō igakubu ) and in 1894 to the Medical Department of the Fifth High School ( 第五 高等学校 医学 部 , Dai-go kōtō gakkō igakubu ) . In 1891 it was moved to the Sakamoto district.
In 1901 this medical department became independent as Nagasaki Medical School ( 長崎 医学 専 門 学校 ). This was transferred to the Nagasaki Medical School in 1923 ( 長崎 医科大学 , Nagasaki ika daigaku ). In 1939 a department for the training of military doctors was established and in 1940 the Research Institute for (Asian) Continental Medicine ( 大陸 医学 研究所 , Tairiku igaku kenkyūsho , today the Institute for Tropical Medicine).
On August 9, 1945, the university was completely destroyed by an atom bomb , as it was only 500 to 700 m away from the explosion center. In September 1945 teaching was temporarily started in Ōmura and in 1946 in Isahaya . In 1950 the Sakamoto campus was rebuilt.
In 1949, Nagasaki University was founded through the amalgamation of five state universities and technical schools:
- Nagasaki Medical School (the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Pharmacy and the Medical Center),
- Nagasaki High School ( 長崎 高等学校 , Nagasaki kōtō gakkō , formerly the technical school department for the training of military doctors),
- Nagasaki Business School ( 長崎 経 済 専 門 学校 , Nagasaki keizai semmon gakkō , founded in 1905),
- Nagasaki Normal School ( 長崎 師範学校 , Nagasaki shihan gakkō , founded in 1874), and
- the Nagasaki Youth Normal School ( 長崎 青年 師範学校 , Nagasaki his shihan gakkō , founded in 1921).
Initially, the university comprised five faculties ( liberal arts , economics, medicine, pharmacy and fisheries). In 1953 the Faculty of Liberal Arts (since 1966 Faculty of Education) moved to the new Bunkyō campus on the site of the former Mitsubishi weapons factory. By 1969, all faculties with the exception of the faculties of medicine and economics were concentrated on the area of the Bunkyō campus. Further faculties emerged: engineering (1966), dentistry (1979) and environmental science (1997).
A well-known graduate of the university is Osamu Shimomura , who received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
History of the former Nagasaki Business School
The Nagasaki Business School was founded in March 1905 as the Nagasaki Higher Business School ( 長崎 高等 商業 学校 , Nagasaki Kōtō shōgyō gakkō ). After Tokyo (1887), Kobe (1902) and Yamaguchi , this was the fourth state commercial college to train merchants for trade with China, Korea and the Pacific. The school had no right to award doctorates.
In 1944 this commercial college was renamed Nagasaki School of Economics. On August 9, 1945, the mountains protected the school buildings from the direct effects of the exploding atomic bomb. Because the several classes had to work in the Mitsubishi weapons factory, which is 1.5 kilometers away from the explosion center, about 26 of the students died there. In 1949 this business school was transformed into the Faculty of Economics at Nagasaki University. The faculty has been on the Katafuchi campus since it was founded.
Faculties
- Bunkyō campus ( 32 ° 47 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 129 ° 51 ′ 54.5 ″ E, ):
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences
- Faculty of Fisheries
- Sakamoto Campus ( 32 ° 46 ′ 20.3 ″ N , 129 ° 52 ′ 4.5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Katafuchi Campus ( 32 ° 45 ′ 33 ″ N , 129 ° 53 ′ 16.5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Economics
Research institutes
- Institute for Tropical Medicine
- Institute for Atomic Bomb Disease Institute (Japanese 原 爆 後 障害 医療 研究 施 設 , English Atomic Bomb Disease Institute ) from the Graduate School for Medicine and Dentistry
See also
Web links
- Official website - Japanese and English
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/about/message/
- ↑ http://www.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/zaigaku/jyuko/shiryo.html#ZAIGAKU 在 学 学生 数 ( Number of students (October 2008), in Japanese): Undergraduates 7,663, Graduates 1,487.