Hiroshima University (広島大学, Hiroshima Daigaku) is a Japanese national research university located in Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions. Its abbreviated form is Hirodai, and it is included in the group of quasi-elite national universities in Japan known as “Kaneokachihiro”.
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History
Under the National School Establishment Law, Hiroshima University was established on May 31, 1949. After World War II, the school system in Japan was entirely reformed and each of the institutions of higher education under the pre-war system was reorganized. As a general rule, one national university was established in each prefecture, and Hiroshima University became a national university under the new system by combining the pre-war higher educational institutions in Hiroshima Prefecture.
The following eight schools were integrated or merged into Hiroshima University under the new system of education.
Hiroshima University of Literature and Science
Hiroshima Higher Normal School
Hiroshima Women's Higher Normal School
Hiroshima Higher School
Hiroshima Normal School
Hiroshima Youth Normal School
Hiroshima Higher Technical School
Hiroshima Municipal Higher Technical School
In 1953-1956, Hiroshima Medical College consolidated into Hiroshima University.
Some of these institutions were already notable. Above all, Hiroshima School of Secondary Education, founded in 1902, had a distinguished place as one of the nation's two centers for training middle school teachers. The Hiroshima University of Literature and Science was founded in 1929 as one of the national universities and, with the Hiroshima School of Secondary Education which was formerly affiliated to it, were highly notable.
The present Hiroshima University, which was created from these two institutions as well as three other "old-system" training institutions for teachers, continues to hold an important position among the universities and colleges in Japan. Hiroshima Higher Technical School, which has many alumnae in the manufacturing industry, was founded in 1920 and was promoted to a Technical College (Senmon Gakko) in 1944. Hiroshima Higher School was founded in 1923 as one of the pre-war higher schools which prepared students for Imperial and other government-supported universities. Although these institutions suffered a great deal of damage due to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, they were reconstructed and combined to become the new Hiroshima University. Graduate schools were established in 1953. After completing the reconstruction, in order to seek wider campus, the relocation to local area(Higashihiroshima) was planned and decided by 1972. Hiroshima University relocated to Higashihiroshima from Hiroshima City between 1982 and 1995. In Hiroshima City, there are still some Campuses (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Graduate School in these fields in Kasumi Campus and Law School and Center for Research on Regional Economic System in Higashi-Senda Campus).
Schools and graduate schools
Schools
School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
School of Letters
School of Education
School of Law
School of Economics
School of Science
School of Medicine
School of Dentistry
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Engineering
School of Applied Biological Science
School of Informatics and Data Science
Graduate schools
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society
Research institutes
Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden
Campus
Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, Kagami-yama 1-chome, Higashihiroshima
Kasumi Campus, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima
Higashisenda Campus, 1-1-89, Higashi-senda-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
Notable alumni
Politics
Wataru Kubo - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance
Osamu Fujimura - member of the National Diet, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister of State
Yoshinobu Ohira - member of the National Diet
Chōbyō Yara - Chief Executive of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture
Yura Halim - Chief Minister (Menteri Besar) of Brunei, Brunei Ambassador to Japan
Business
Takeshi Taketsuru - President of Nikka Whisky Distilling
Academic
Kuniyoshi Obara - scholar of education, education reformer, founder of Tamagawa Gakuen and Tamagawa University
Shintaro Uda - engineer, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, IEEE Milestone, Japan Academy Prize
Yoshio Koide - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at University of Shizuoka
Tsutomu Yanagida - physicist, Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, Humboldt Prize, Nishina Memorial Prize
Tomoyuki Nishita - engineer, Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, Steven A. Coons Award
Akinori Noma - physiologists, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University