History
The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876. It became a Japanese national university in 1949 by the amalgamation of Kanagawa Normal School, Kanagawa Youth Normal School, Yokohama College of Economics and the Yokohama Institute of Technology. The Faculty of Business Administration was founded in 1967. The university has Master's Degree Programs in Engineering (1962), Economics (1972), Business Administration (1972), and Education (1979). The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology was established in 1973 under the botanist Akira Miyawaki, and the Graduate School of International and Business Law was established in 1990. The Graduate School of International Development Studies was created in 1994 and the School of Law in 2004. Alumni include film director Shunji Iwai, photographer Akira SatÅ, game designers Hiromichi Tanaka and Hironobu Sakaguchi and Koshi Inaba, lead singer of the rock duo B'z.
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“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
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