Kogakkan University
Kogakkan University is a private university at Ise, Mie, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1882, and it was chartered as a university in 1940.
Kogakkan University is one of only two universities in Japan to offer a Shinto studies program, whose graduates earn the qualifications needed to become a kannushi. The other university to offer such a program is Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.
Education and Research
Departments
- Literature
- * Shinto
- * Japanese Literature
- * Japanese History
- * Communication
- Education
- * Education
- Contemporary Japanese society
- * Contemporary Japanese society
Graduate programs
- Literature
- * Shinto specialization
- * Japanese Literature specialization
- * Japanese History specialization
- Education
- * Education specialization
Special Programs
- Shinto Studies Graduate Program
Notable people
Faculty and staff
- Yamada Yoshio, linguist
- Shigeru Yoshida, former Prime Minister of Japan
- Shuichi Toyama, archaeologist and historian
- Hideki Togi, composer and actor
- Hiroya Ino, politician and MP
Alumni
- Hirokazu Shiba, politician and MP
- Ochiai Naobumi, poet and literary scholar
- Mika Ōkura, female baseball player
- Eiraku San'yūtei, rakugo performer, student of San'yūtei Enraku V