Kyoto Sangyo University
Kyoto Sangyo University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan.
History
The university was established in 1965 by Toshima Araki, and Hideo Iwakuro, the Japanese spy master who established the Nakano School during World War II.The university was initially composed of two faculties: Economics and Science. Later it added faculties and the graduate schools.
Organization
Undergraduate schools
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Sociology
- Faculty of International Relations
- Faculty of Foreign Studies
- Faculty of Cultural Studies
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of information Science and Engineering
- Faculty of Life Sciences
Graduate schools
- Division of Economics
- Division of Management
- Division of Law
- Division of Sociology
- Division of Foreign Languages
- Division of Science
- Division of Frontier Informatics
- Division of Life Sciences
- Division of Kyoto Studies
Research institutes
- Institute of Japanese Culture
- Institute for World Affairs
- Institute of Advanced Technology
- * Avian Influenza Research Centre
- Institute of Comprehensive Academic Research
Notable faculty
- Hideo Iwakuro – general
- Haruhiko Kindaichi – linguist
- Tsuneari Fukuda – Dramatist, translator, and literary critic
- Toshihide Maskawa – theoretical physicist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Leiji Matsumoto – animator, manga artist
- Kiyoshi Oka – mathematician
Notable alumni
- Takao Horiuchi – pop and enka singer
- Yoshiyuki Matsuoka – judoka, Olympic medalist
- Fumiaki Tanaka – rugby player
- Kenjiro Todoroki – Olympic sailor, Olympic medalist
- Toshiki Yui – manga artist