Kyoto Sangyo University

Kyoto Sangyo University (京都産業大学) 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.

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).

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