, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
History
The university was established in 1949 consolidating the following schools because of educational reform in occupied Japan. - established in 1901. The school was located on the former site of Kagoshima Castle. It is one of the schools that originats from the han school in Edo period. - The oldest predecessor was established in 1875. - established in 1944. - established in 1908. - established in 1946. The following schools became in 1949 and were consolidated into Kagoshima University in 1955. - established in 1945. - established as in 1942. It originats from the medical school in Kagoshima in Meiji era. These seven schools became , , , , and in 1949. "Faculty of Arts and Sciences" was divided into , and in 1965. was added in 1977. was separated from "Faculty of Agriculture" in 2012. Also Graduate Schools have been added gradually.
Faculties
Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Fisheries
Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Points of interest
Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden
Notable alumni
Politics
Wataru Kubo - member of the National Diet, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Seiichi Ōmura - member of the National Diet, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of State for Director General of the Defense Agency, bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Education) Shigenori Tōgō - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs Tadaatsu Ishiguro - bureaucrat (Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry), Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, member of the National Diet Moichi Miyazaki - member of the National Diet, Minister of State for Director General of the Science and Technology Agency Eiichi Nishimura - member of the National Diet, Minister of Health and Welfare, Minister of Construction, Minister of State for Director General of National Land Agency, Minister of State for Director General of Administrative Management Agency Kokichi Shimoinaba - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice Morio Takahashi - bureaucrat, the mayor of Kumamoto City, government-appointed governor of prefectures, Superintendent General of Japanese police Yin Ju-keng - politician in the early Republic of China Zhou Fohai - politician in Republic of China Kamejiro Senaga - the mayor of Naha City, member of the National Diet Kyuichi Tokuda - member of the National Diet
Business
Kazuo Inamori - founder of Kyocera Corporation and KDDI Corporation, Honorary Chairman of Kyocera and Japan Airlines
Academic
Isamu Akasaki - engineer and physicist, Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University, Distinguished Professor at Meijo University, Person of Cultural Merit, Order of Culture, Nobel prize in Physics, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Edison Medal, Kyoto Prize, Japan Academy Prize & Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy Akira Arimura - neuroscientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Tulane University in America Kikuo Arakawa - medical scientist, cardiovascular scientist, internist, World Hypertension League Award, International Society of Hypertension Distinguished Fellow Award, Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University, the 12th President of the International Society of Hypertension Kikuo Ogyū - medical scientist, internist, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, the President and Professor Emeritus at Kansai Medical University Hiroshi Enatsu - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University Arika Kimura - botanist, the first director of the Botanical Garden of Tohoku University Teiso Esaki - entomologist, Professor at Kyushu University Kuniyoshi Obara - scholar of education, education reformer, founder of Tamagawa Gakuen and Tamagawa University
Culture
Shinobu Kaitani - manga artist
Kawataro Nakajima - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Kōichi Iiboshi - author Kiyoteru Hanada - literary critic Hideyo Amamoto - actor Takashi Nomura - film director Shirō Fukai - composer