Okayama University of Science
Okayama University of Science (岡山理科大学, Okayama rika daigaku) is a private university in Okayama, Okayama, Japan, established in 1964. It is predominantly a school of science and engineering.
岡山理科大学 | |
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| Type | Private STEM |
|---|---|
| Established | 1964 |
| President | Hiroyuki Hirano |
| Location | , |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | www |
Notable events
From 2015–2018, Okayama University of Science's operator, the group Kake Gakuen, applied for permission to open a new school of veterinary medicine in Ehime Prefecture, across the water from Okayama on the island of Shikoku. This school would be a branch of the Okayama University of Science. The government's aid in sweeping away regulatory concerns and speeding the process ignited accusations of corruption, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was friends with the owner of Kake Gakuen, Kotaro Kake.[1][2]
In 2020, another controversy broke out after it was revealed that all ethnically Korean students applying to the university's recently added school of veterinary medicine in October 2019 were denied and failed with scores of zero (out of fifty) on their entrance examination.[3]
Notable people
Graduates:
- Yu Suzuki, an engineer and game programmer who worked for Sega and helped implement many of their famous video games
- Koji Mise, a baseball player for Okayama's college team that went on to the Nippon Professional Baseball league
Faculty:
- Akira Suzuki, a chemist and Nobel Prize laureate who served as a visiting professor for a year in the chemistry department, from 1994–1995
- Kent Gilbert, a gaijin tarento minor celebrity and proponent of revisionist far-right Japanese historiography that downplays Japanese war crimes in World War II
See also
- 加計学園問題#関係者による発言, an article on the Kake Gakuen scandal
References
- "Document suggests Kake Gakuen vet school bid was of personal interest to Abe". Archived from the original on 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- "Breaking down the Kake Gakuen scandal: Who's lying, Abe or his political opponents?". Archived from the original on 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- "「韓国人受験生が全員不合格」の報道 岡山理大に確認 文科相". Archived from the original on 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2020-03-05.