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Kwansei Gakuin University

Kwansei Gakuin University (関西学院大学, Kansei Gakuin Daigaku), colloquially abbreviated to Kangaku (関学), is a non-denominational Christian private and coeducational university in Nishinomiya, Sanda, Osaka City, and Tokyo, Japan. Chartered in 1932, it is the 13th institution with university status in Kansai region, the 23rd oldest outside of Greater Tokyo, and the 46th oldest in the country. Kwansei Gakuin University is one of the leading private universities in Japan. It has a relatively strong network of alumni in Kansai region and has produced a number of CEOs of Japanese companies and politicians.

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History

Kwansei Gakuin was founded in 1889 in Kobe, Japan by Dr. Walter Russell Lambuth (later Bishop), a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC-S), USA, with the aim of training missionaries and educating young people based on the principles of Christianity. It was intended to be a small private institution with two departments, a theological school and a middle school. In 1910 the Canadian Methodist Church and the Japanese Methodist Church joined the operation, and Kwansei Gakuin opened a college with literary and commercial courses in 1912. The same year, Kwansei Gakuin moved to the rural farmland which is the site of the present campus in Nishinomiya Uegahara near Mount Kabuto. Three years later, it acquired the status of a full degree-granting university and continued as one of 54 such institutions in Japan until the end of World War II. The school, formerly all-male, opened its doors to women in 1943. In 1948, the university embraced the new 6-3-3-4 school system (6 years in elementary school, 3 in junior high, 3 in senior high, and 4 in college), based upon the American education framework.

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Student not covering nose with mask disqualified at univ. exams

Kyodo 18 Jan 2021

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Japan's new university entrance exams under way amid virus pandemic

Kyodo 16 Jan 2021

Japan's new unified university entrance exams started Saturday across the country as organizers took anti-coronavirus measures such as requiring test-takers to wear masks and disinfect their hands and ensuring that venues are well ventilated ... An examiner carries question sheets in Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo Prefecture on Jan.

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Phys Dot Org 04 Jan 2021

Takuji Hatakeyama's group at Kwansei Gakuin University recently reported a promising path to overcoming the purity issue based on a unique molecular design for a highly efficient, pure-blue TADF emitter, but the molecule, ν-DABNA, quickly degrades under operation ... Provided by Kyushu University.

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My Father Saw the Good in Every Person and Every Nation, Vogel’s Son Writes

Caixin Online 21 Dec 2020

Steven Vogel is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley ... Vogel received honorary degrees from Kwansei Gakuin (Japan); the Monterrey Institute; and the universities of Maryland, Massachusetts (Lowell), Wittenberg, Bowling Green, Albion, Ohio Wesleyan, Chinese University (Hong Kong) and Yamaguchi University (Japan).

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American football: Kwansei Gakuin earns emphatic Koshien Bowl triumph

Kyodo 13 Dec 2020

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Kyodo 27 Nov 2020

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Students submit petition to raise age of consent from 13 to 16

Asahi News 21 Nov 2020

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