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Kyorin University

Coordinates:35°40′37″N139°33′57″E / 35.67694°N 139.56583°E /35.67694; 139.56583

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Kyorin University
杏林大学

Motto	Pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty^[1]
Type	Private
Established	1970^[2]
President	Yutaka Atomi
Academic staff	980^[3]
Administrative staff	2,144^[3]
Students	4,856^[3]
Undergraduates	4,673^[3]
Postgraduates	183^[3]
Location	Mitaka City-Mitaka (Headquarters)/ Inokashira (Other faculties) Hachiōji City-Hachiōji (Sports Ground only) , Tokyo , Japan
Campus	Urban
Colors	green
Website	kyorin-u.ac.jp

Kyorin University (杏林大学,Kyōrin daigaku) is aprivate university in the western part ofTokyo,Japan. Its three campuses are inMitaka andHachiōji, Tokyo. It was established in 1970.^[2] The predecessor of the school, Mitaka Shinkawa Hospital, was founded in 1953 by Shinyu Matsuda.^[2]

History

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Mitaka Shinkawa Hospital was founded in 1953 as asanitarium fortuberculosis at the current location of the Mitaka campus of Kyorin University.^[4] Two years after, the training school for assistant nurses opened. The hospital added psychiatric and general medical wards, and, in 1963, Tokyo Mitaka Shinkawa General Hospital was chartered.

In 1966, Kyorin Educational Foundation was founded andKyorin Junior College [ja], which was reorganized to Faculty of Health Sciences of Kyorin University in 1979, started to develop Medical Laboratory Scientists. When Kyorin University School of Medicine was established in 1970, Tokyo Mitaka Shinkawa General Hospital was reconstituted as Kyorin University Hospital.

Campus

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Mitaka Campus (Headquarters) – 6-20-2,Shinkawa,Mitaka City, Tokyo
Inokashira Campus – 5-4-1, Shimorenjaku,Mitaka City, Tokyo
Hachiōji Campus – 476, Miyashitamachi,Hachiōji City, Tokyo

Organization

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The university has four undergraduate faculties and three graduate schools.^[5]

Faculties and Departments

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Faculty of Foreign Studies
- Department of Chinese Communication
- Department of English Language
- Department of Hospitality and Tourism
Faculty of Health Sciences
- Department of Clinical Engineering
- Department of Health and Welfare
- Department of Medical Radiological Technology
- Department of Medical Technology
- Department of Nursing
- Department of Occupational Therapy
- Department of Paramedics
- Department of Physical Therapy
Faculty of Medicine
- Department of Medicine
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Policy Studies