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. The main campus is located in Tsushima-Naka,

Okayama is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. , the city has an estimated population of 720,841 and a population density of 910 persons per km2. The total area is . The city is ...

Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the ...

. The school was founded in 1870 and it was established as a university in 1949.

History

Okayama University was originally founded as the in 1870 by Okayama-Han. After the

abolition of the han system The in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, the starting year of the Meiji period. Under the reform, all daimyos (, ''daimyō'', feudal lord ...

, it became the in 1880. In 1888 it was merged into a national school, to constitute the Medical Faculty. The Medical Faculty became an independent school in 1901 and was renamed , a four-year medical school for men ages 17–21 or above. In 1922, the school was chartered as , a four-year medical college for men ages 19–23 or above. In 1949, after

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, the college was merged with other national and public colleges in Okayama Prefecture to establish Okayama University, under Japan's new education system. The predecessors of the university were Okayama Medical College, , , and . The new campus (Tsushima Campus) was the former

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of the Imperial Japanese Army (the 17th Division). After occupation army left the camp in 1947, the students of the Sixth Higher School (whose buildings were burnt in the war) guarded the camp, residing in the former military

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. Later, the camp became their campus. The faculties of Okayama University, except the Medical School, were gradually relocated to Tsushima Campus. The university at first had five faculties: Law and Letters, Education, Science, Agriculture and Medicine. The latter history of the university is as follows: *1951: joined the university. **Later reorganized into the Institute for Agricultural and Biological Sciences (in 1953) and then the Research Institute for Bioresources (in 1988). *1960: the Faculty of Engineering was established. *1967: Professor Jun Kobayashi (analytic chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture) announced the cause of Itai-itai disease as

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poisoning. Itai-itai disease (meaning "ouch ouch" disease in Japanese), was a severe pain disease affecting Toyama Prefecture as a result of mining over the course of 1,500 years. *1976: the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences was established. *1979: the Dental School was established (in Shikata Campus). *1980: the Faculty of Law and Letters was divided into three faculties: Letters, Law and Economics. *1994: the Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology was established.

Academics

* Faculty of Letters * Faculty of Education * Faculty of Law * Faculty of Economics * Faculty of Science * Medical School * Dental School * Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology * Faculty of Agriculture * Matching Program Course * Discovery Program for Global Learners (English-medium program)

Faculty of Law

In 1949, Okayama University set up the department of law, economics and literature at the same time as the university was founded. In those days, this was the only faculty of law in the region of Chugoku and Shikoku. Later in 1980, Okayama University reorganized the department and separated the faculty of law which became the department of law today. Then, in 2004, Okayama University reorganized again when the law graduate course was established.

Faculty of Economics: Department of Economics (including evening course)

Modern Economic Analysis

International Comparative Economics

Management and Accounting

Students who take this course work in administration, including management, organization, and strategy, and in accounting and financing, Students come to understand and develop insights into actual company operations. This course has students who want to be a certified public accountant or a licensed tax accountant.

Faculty of Science

*Department of Mathematics *Department of Physics *Department of Chemistry *Department of Biology *Department of Earth Sciences *Medical School (in Shikata Campus)

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Health Sciences

*Department of Nursing *Department of Radiological Technology *Department of Medical Technology

Dental School (in Shikata Campus)

* School of Dentistry

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

*Department of Pharmacy *Department of Pharmaceutical Technology

Faculty of Engineering

*Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering *Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering *Department of Information Technology *Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology *Center for Engineering Innovation

Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology

Environmental science and technology has four departments: Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Environmental and Civil Engineering, Environmental Management Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry and Materials. The environmental science and technology faculty began in 1995.

Faculty of Agriculture

Department of Agricultural Sciences

Matching Program Course

This is cross-faculty program designed to help students create their own integrated program matching individual career and academic interests. Students can take classes from other faculties which they are interested in and original classes in this course, so students can decide their major after thinking through many experiences.

Graduate schools

* Graduate School of Education (Master's courses/Professional Degree Course) * Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's/Doctoral) * Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology (Master's/Doctoral) * Graduate School of Health Sciences (Master's/Doctoral) * Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science (Master's/Doctoral) * Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Master's/Doctoral) * School of Law

Attached Institute

* Research Institute for Bioresources

Nationwide Joint-use Facility

* Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior

Campuses

Each campus is in the central part of Okayama-city, except the Misasa Campus

Tsushima Campus

Tsushima Campus has an Administrative Center at 1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 1-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 2-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 3-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-62, Tsushima-Kuwanokicho, Kita-Ku, Okayama

Shikata Campus

5-1, Shikata-cho, 2-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama

Misasa Campus

827, Yamada,

Misasa is a town located in Tōhaku District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is also home to the official treasure of Sanbutsu-ji, the Misasa Onsen, and Okayama Hospital. The name "Misasa" (literally "three mornings") originates from the belief that ...

, Tottori Prefecture

Academic rankings

Notable alumni

* Sahachiro Hata - nomination for the

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in 1913. *

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. Achieved a pharmaceutical qualification.

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References

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