Dokkyo University

Dokkyo University

獨協大学
Motto	A University is an institution where character is developed through learning
Type	Private
Established	1883
President	Tadashi Inui
Academic staff	161
Administrative staff	153
Undergraduates	8892
Postgraduates	143
Doctoral students	15
Location	Soka, Saitama, Japan
Campus	Suburb
Colors	Blue
Website	http://www.dokkyo.ac.jp/english/index_e.html

Dokkyo University East Building

Dokkyo University (獨協大学 Dokkyō Daigaku) is a private university in Sōka, Saitama, Japan, which is a liberal, co-educational institution noted for its language education programmes and international exchanges.

History

The name "Dokkyo" is the Japanese-style dual kanji-based abbreviation of Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society (獨逸學協會 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai). What was to become today's Dokkyo University was founded on 18 September 1881 by those scholars such as Nishi Amane and Katō Hiroyuki, diplomats such as Inoue Kaoru and Aoki Shūzō and statesmen such as Shinagawa Yajirō and Katsura Tarō as Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society (獨逸學協會 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai), with its first chancellor being Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa. It developed into Schule des Vereins für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society School (獨逸學協會學校 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai Gakkō) in 1883, which opened its doors exclusively to boys in line with the custom at the time. They also founded a highly prestigious law school to study Japan's first constitution The Constitution of the Great Empire of Japan, modeled after the Prussian one with criminal codes also modeled after the German ones, but the elite law division was absorbed by the Imperial University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1895.

The school went through a minor negative campaign due to World War I, when Japan sided with the British Empire against the German Empire from August 1914 to November 1918, but the majority of the Japanese public was either pro-German or neutral despite Japan's position in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The 1920s saw its heyday when the school sent the highest number of boys into the nation's top Daiichi Kōtō Gakkō (第一高等学校 Daiichi Kōtō Gakkō) ("High School No.1") in Tokyo, or popularly known as "Ichikō", which is today's Liberal Arts campus of the University of Tokyo. The collapse of the two great empires of Germany and Japan in 1945, however, rendered the elite school into a mere boys' high school of middle rank. During the early 1960s Dokkyo School's graduate and former Education Minister Amano Teiyū (天野貞祐 Amano Teiyū) was invited to "found" the University with money from the school and local governments. They started their first lectures on a higher education level in April 1964.

Schools

Undergraduate

• Faculty of Foreign Languages (外国語学部)
  • Department of German (ドイツ語学科)
  • Department of English (英語学科)
  • Department of French (フランス語学科)
• Faculty of International Liberal Arts (国際教養学部)
  • Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (言語文化学科)
• Faculty of Economics (経済学部)
  • Department of Economics (経済学科)
  • Department of Management Science (経営学科)
• Faculty of Law (法学部)
  • Department of Law (法律学科)
  • Department of International Legal Studies (国際関係法学科)
  • Department of Policy Studies (総合政策学科) (from 2008)

Postgraduate

• Graduate Schools (大学院)
  • Graduate School of Law (法学研究科)
  • Graduate School of Foreign Languages (外国語学研究科)
  • Graduate School of Economics (経済学研究科)
• Dokkyo Law School (法科大学院)

International exchanges

Academic exchange agreements

• University of Essex, England, UK (since 1983)
• Oxford Brookes University, England, UK (Since ????)
• Universität Duisburg-Essen (University of Duisburg-Essen), Germany (since 1984)
• University of Alabama, USA (since 1992)
• University of Wollongong, Australia (since 1996)
• Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France (since 1997)
• York University, Canada (since 1998)
• University of the Fraser Valley,British Columbia, Canada (since 2009)
• Cardiff University (or Prifysgol Caerdydd), Wales, UK (since 1999)
• Fudan University (復旦大学), China (since 1999)
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA (since 2002)
• Catholic University of Daegu (大邱가톨릭大學校; 대구가톨릭대학교), Korea (since 2003)
• Universität Wien (University of Vienna), Austria (since 2003)
• University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (since 2004)
• Inha University (仁荷大學校; 인하대학교), Korea (since 2006)
• Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (Lyon Institute of Political Science), France (since 2006)
• Hochschule Bremen (University of Applied Sciences Bremen), Germany (since 2006)
• Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (since ????)
• Philipps-Universität Marburg (University of Marburg), Germany (since ????)

Exchange agreements

• Université de Bourgogne (University of Burgundy), France (since 1985)
• University of Illinois, USA (since 1998)
• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster), Germany (since 2004)
• Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico (since 2012)

Alumni

• Rie Furuse, singer
• Katsuko Nishimoto, politician
• Koichiro Okuma, instructor of Shotokan karate
• Tōru Toida, politician
• Tina Yuzuki, AV idol, actress, model and singer
• Yumi Yoshiyuki, Pink film actress, director, producer

External links

• Official website (in English)

Coordinates: 35°50′24″N 139°47′38″E / 35.8399°N 139.794°E