Kanagawa University

Established as the Yokohama Academy in 1928, it then became Yokohama College and was set up as Kanagawa University in 1949, following post-war reforms.

The main campus is located in Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku (Yokohama campus); however, there is another campus, Minato Mirai. It comprises eleven faculties, 23 departments, one programme and eight graduate schools. Kanagawa University also operates Kanagawa University Junior and Senior High School.

Faculties include Law, Economics, Business Administration, Foreign Languages, Cross-cultural and Japanese Studies, Human Sciences, Science, Engineering, Architecture and Building Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Informatics. The faculties of Business Administration, Foreign Languages and Cross-cultural and Japanese Studies are all based at the Minato Mirai Campus.

Kanagawa University has established several specialised, high-level research institutes to advance research in the following areas, among others: legal studies, economics and foreign trade, international business and management, humanities, integrated science, engineering, Japanese folk culture, human sciences, architecture and building engineering, and informatics.

It promotes academic and cultural exchanges through universities all over the world and is engaged in active agreements with over 200 partner institutions in more than 50 countries across Asia, Oceania, North America, Central and South America and Europe, Near and Middle East and Africa.

Bi-annually, in summer and winter, the university hosts a short-term intensive Japanese language programme for foreign students, often to help them prepare for their term at Kanagawa University.

A 30-minute ride from central Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan by population (approximately 3.7 million), following Tokyo. It became Japan’s most important port city after the end of the country’s isolation in the mid-19th century and alongside Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo and Chiba, it is one of the most important Japanese commercial hubs.