Kyoto Sangyo University (京都産業大学, Kyōto sangyō daigaku) is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It is one university that belongs to "San-Kin-Ko-Ryu" (産近甲龍), a group of semi-major private universities in the Kansai area.

History

The university was established in 1965 by Toshima Araki (荒木俊馬, 1897–1978), and Hideo Iwakuro (岩畔 豪雄, Iwakuro Hideo, 10 October 1897 – 22 November 1970), the Japanese spy master who established the Nakano School during World War II.^[2][3]

The university was initially composed of two faculties: Economics and Science. Later it added faculties and the graduate schools (master's courses in 1969, doctoral courses in 1971).

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
• 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