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, abbreviated to ''Kumadai'' (熊大), is a Japanese public university located in Kumamoto, Kumamoto prefecture in the Kyushu region of Japan. It was established on May 31, 1949, at which time the following institutions were subsumed into it; Kumamoto Teachers College (established in 1874), Kumamoto Pharmaceutical College (1885), the Fifth High School (1887), Kumamoto Medical College (1896), and Kumamoto Technical College (1906). Currently, the university has seven faculties and eight graduate schools with a total of around 10,000 Japanese students and 400 international students from Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania. ==History== The university was chartered by the Showa government on May 31, 1949 under a new Japanese education system reforming older system, merging five institutions of higher education in the city of Kumamoto which includes Kumamoto Teachers College (, ''Kumamoto shihan gakkō'') established in 1987, Kumamoto Pharmaceutical College (, ''Kumamoto yakugaku semmon gakkō'') established in 1885, the Fifth High School (, ''Dai-go kōtō gakkō'') established in 1887, Kumamoto Medical College (, ''Kumamoto ika daigaku'') established in 1896 and Kumamoto Technical College (, ''Kumamoto kōtō kōgyō gakkō'') established in 1897 though the precursor of the university was founded in 1925 as a prefectural university of Kumamoto and subsequently it was reorganized as a national university in 1929.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Kumamoto University )〕 The hub of the university at the time of foundation was the Fifth High School, which was a center for higher learning in western Japan during the Meiji period and the university began with six departments, with an enrollment of approximately 1,100 students. In 1955 the Graduate School of Medicine was established at the university and other graduate schools were subsequently founded.〔 In 2004 Kumamoto University became a National University Corporation under the National University Corporation Law. Although the university was founded during the Taisho period, it has earlier roots in Saishunkan (再春館) established on September in 1756 as Han school of Kumamoto Domain and Banjien (藩滋園) established on July in 1756 by Shigekata Hosokawa, who was a Japanese samurai daimyo of the Edo period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kumamoto University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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