, or is a national university

National university

A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations...

 in Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama

Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama

is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of 9,400 persons per km². The total area was 21.91 km².-Geography:...

, Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

, Japan

Japan

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. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University

Tokyo Gakugei University

Tokyo Gakugei University or Gakudai , for short, is a national university in Koganei, Tokyo. While its history may be traced to 1873, it was formally chartered as a university in 1949 through the merging of four teacher-training institutions....

, Saitama University

Saitama University

Saitama University is a Japanese national university located in a suburban area of Sakura-ku, Saitama City capital of Saitama Prefecture in Tokyo Metropolitan Area....

, and Chiba University

Chiba University

is a national university in the city of Chiba, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University.-Faculties:*Letters*Education*Law and Economics*Science...

. It is noted for its Business Administration program.

History

The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876. It became a Japanese national university

National university

A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations...

 in 1949 by the amalgamation of Kanagawa Normal School, Kanagawa Youth Normal School, Yokohama College of Economics and the Yokohama Institute of Technology. The Faculty of Business Administration was founded in 1967. The university has Master's Degree Programs in Engineering (1962), Economics (1972), Business Administration (1972), and Education (1979).
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology was established in 1973 under the botanist Akira Miyawaki

Akira Miyawaki

is a Japanese botanist and expert in plant ecology, specializing in seed and study of forests. He has recreated natural forests from degraded greenfield sites all over the world and has been given a host of awards including the Blue Planet Prize in 2006....

, and the Graduate School of International and Business Law was established in 1990. The Graduate School of International Development Studies was created in 1994 and the School of Law in 2004.
Alumni include film director

Film director

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 Shunji Iwai

Shunji Iwai

is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.-Life and career:Iwai was born in Sendai, Japan, Miyagi prefecture. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987....

, photographer Akira Satō

Akira Sato

was a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of Life and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He...

, game designers Hiromichi Tanaka

Hiromichi Tanaka

is a Japanese video game developer, game producer, game director and game designer. He is currently Senior Vice President of Software Development at Square Enix and the head of Square Enix's Product Development Division-3. He is best known as the former lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, Square's...

 and Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi

is a Japanese game designer, game director and game producer. He is world famous as the creator of the Final Fantasy series, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide...

 and Koshi Inaba

Koshi Inaba

is a Japanese vocalist. His real name is . He graduated from the Faculty of Education at the Yokohama National University, and has a degree in mathematics.- Musical career :...

, lead singer of the rock duo B'z

B'z

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About the name of Yokohama National University

Originally it was planned to name as "Yokohama university", but at that time the previous Yokohama City Economics College and private Yokohama vocational school also were applied their name as Yokohama University. They had a consultation about the name and decided not to use name "Yokohama National University".

Faculties

• Faculty of Education and Human Sciences
• Faculty of Economics
• Center for International Trade Studies
• Faculty of Business Administration
• School of Engineering

Graduate Schools

• Graduate School of Education
• International Graduate School of Social Sciences
• Graduate School of Engineering/ Faculty of Engineering
• Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences/ Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences

Faculty of Business Administration

Yokohama National University's Faculty of Business Administration was established in 1967, and currently composed of four disciplinary areas: the Division of Business Administration, the Division of Accounting and Information, the Division of Management System Science and the Division of International Business. The faculty places emphasis on internationalization, with not only Japanese students, but also many students from overseas currently enrolled. Students are free to register subjects outside of their own division, and so are able to gain an education that covers all aspects of business administration. In the latter half of second year, students are assigned to a seminar, where they do research in a specialized area of an advising professor.

External links

• University website
• Study Abroad website