Higher school (Japan)

Higher school (高等学校, Kōtō Gakkō or 旧制高等学校, Kyūsei Kōtō Gakkō) was an institution of higher education in Japan, which was a preparatory institution for imperial universities and national medical colleges until the educational reform in occupied Japan.

Apart from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, higher schools were the most prestigious pre-university higher education institutions in Japan and provided liberal arts education based on 'Kyōyōshugi' instead of specialised education.

The higher schools have now been converted or merged into universities. Despite the same name, Kōtō Gakkō (高等学校), higher schools are completely different to high schools (新制高等学校, Shinsei Kōtō Gakkō) after WW2.

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3-year Schools

Number Schools school nameThe First Order of Higher Education (1894) eraThe Second Order of Higher Education (1919)Later part ofFirst Higher School (Tokyo)Daigaku YokaKōtōkaUniversity of TokyoFacultyl of Medicine (Chiba)Independent as Chiba Medical College (1901)Chiba Medical College (now Chiba University School of Medicine) (Sendai)Daigaku YokaKōtōkaTohoku UniversityFaculty of medicineIndependent as Sendai Medical College (1901)Tohoku Imperial University School of Medicine (Tohoku University School of Medicine)Third Higher School (Kyoto)Faculty of Law1901 abolished――――Faculty of Engineering1901 abolished――――Faculty of Medicine (Okayama)Independent as Okayama Medical College (1901)Okayama Medical College (now Okayama University School of Medicine)Daigaku Yoka (1897)KōtōkaKyoto University (Kanazawa)Daigaku YokaKōtōkaKanazawa UniversityFaculty of medicineIndependent as Kanazawa Medical College (1901)Kanazawa University School of Medicine (Kumamoto)Daigaku YokaKōtōkaKumamoto UniversityFaculty of Medicine (Nagasaki)Independent as Nagasaki Medical College (1901)Nagasaki University School of MedicineFaculty of Engineering (1897)Independent as Kumamoto Higher Technical School (1906)Kumamoto University (Okayama)Daigaku Yoka (1900)KōtōkaOkayama University, Zōshikan (Kagoshima)Daigaku Yoka (1901)KōtōkaKagoshima University (Nagoya)Daigaku Yoka (1908)KōtōkaNagoya University

Name Schools Year of establishmentschool nameNew university1886Yamaguchi University1919Niigata University1919Shinshu University1919Yamaguchi University1919Ehime University1920Ibaraki University1920Yamagata University1920Saga University1920Hirosaki University1920Shimane University1921Osaka University1921Saitama University1921Kyushu University1922Shizuoka University1922Kochi University1923Kobe University (Himeji Branch)1923Hiroshima University1940 (Lushun, Manchukuo)(abolition)1943University of Toyama

Postwar Special Higher School Predecessor medical and dental college of school nameNew universityJapan Women's Dental CollegeJapan Women's Health Junior College (Now Kanagawa Dental University) Toyo Women's Dental CollegeToyo Women's Junior College (now Toyo Gakuen University) Akita Prefectural Women's Medical College(Closed in 1950, converted into Akita University)Yamanashi Prefectural Medical College(Closed in 1951, converted into Yamanashi University)Yamanashi Prefectural Women's Medical CollegeTokushima Medical CollegeTokushima UniversityFukuoka Prefectural Medical and Dental College, Department of Medicine(Closed in 1951, converted into Kyushu Dental University)Nagasaki Medical University College of MedicineNagasaki University

7-year Schools kindsYear of establishmentschool nameNew universityNew junior high school / high schoolnational1921University of TokyoJunior and Senior High School, University of Tokyo 1922 (Taipei)(Abolished, converted to National Taiwan Normal University)public1923(Transferred to a national school in 1943, abolished the vulgaris department)1926 (Osaka)Osaka University(Abolition of vulgar department)1929 (Tokyo) Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityMetropolitan New Institution of Higher Education private1922 (Tokyo)Musashi UniversityMusashi Junior and Senior High School1923 (Hyogo)Konan UniversityKonan Junior and Senior High School1925 (Tokyo)Seikei UniversitySeikei Junior and Senior High School1926 (Tokyo)Seijo UniversitySeijo Gakuen Junior High School and High School

Higher school (Japan)

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