Konan University

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The Kōnan University (Japanese甲 南 大学, Kōnan daigaku ) is a private university in Japan. The main campus is located in Okamoto, Higashinada -ku, Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture.

The name Kōnan means " South of the mountain Rokko ".

History

The school was founded in 1919 by businessman Hachisaburō Hirao (平生 釟 三郎, 1866-1945 ) as ( older ) Kōnan Middle School (甲 南中 学校, Kōnan chūgakkō ) was founded. Their goal was the development of the characteristics of the students through respect for the individual. The school developed 1923 for (older) Kōnan High School (甲 南 高等学校, Kōnan Kōtō Gakko ), 7 -year-old school (ages 12-19 ). You served the sons of 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) and Kōnan University (1951, 4 - year).

The university had initially only one faculty (humanities and sciences) in 1957 divided into two faculties. Then you added more faculties added: Economics (1952 ), Law ( 1960), Business Administration ( 1960), intelligence and computer science (2008), management and creative work ( jap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, in short. FIRST, April 2009).

When Kobe earthquake of 1995 killed 37 students, students ( middle and high school) and graduates of the university. Five school buildings were destroyed, including the former main building of the older Kōnan High School. The buildings were rebuilt in 1997.

Faculties

  • Okamoto - campus ( in Higashinada -ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, 34 ° 43 '46 "N, 135 ° 16 ' 6" O34.729388888889135.26839166667Koordinaten: 34 ° 43 '46 "N, 135 ° 16 ' 6" O): Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Business Administration
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
  • Faculty of intelligence and computer science
  • Faculty of Bio - and Nanotechnology ( Faculty of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology, in short: FIRST)
  • Faculty of Management and creative work ( Hirao School of Management )
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