is a private university at Ise, Mie, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1882, and it was chartered as a university in 1940.
Kogakkan University is one of only two universities in Japan to offer a Shinto studies program, whose graduates earn the qualifications needed to become a kannushi (Shinto priest).Kogakkan University Faculty of Letters: Kogakkan University official website S.D.B.Picken "Faith-based schools in Japan: Paradoxes and Pointers". In J.D. Chapman et al. (eds.) "International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools". New York: Springer. P. 523. The other university to offer such a program is Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.
Education and Research
Departments Literature Shinto Japanese Literature Japanese History Communication Education Education Contemporary Japanese society Contemporary Japanese society
Graduate programs Literature Shinto specialization Japanese Literature specialization Japanese History specialization Education Education specialization
Special Programs Shinto Studies Graduate Program
Facilities Sagawa Memorial Museum of Shinto and Japanese Culture, Kogakkan University, university museum on Shinto. The university library holds one of only two surviving manuscripts of the Jingifudenzuki, a medieval text central to the Watarai (Ise) Shintō tradition, the other being held at Matsunoo Shrine.
Notable people
Faculty and staff
Yamada Yoshio, linguist Shigeru Yoshida, former Prime Minister of Japan Shuichi Toyama, archaeologist and historian Hideki Togi, composer and actor Hiroya Ino, politician and MP
Alumni
Hirokazu Shiba, politician and MP Ochiai Naobumi, poet and literary scholar Mika Ōkura, female baseball player Eiraku San'yūtei, rakugo performer, student of San'yūtei Enraku V
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