Kumamoto University
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is a university located in Kumamoto, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It was established on May 31, 1949, at which time the following institutions were subsumed into it; Kumamoto Teacher
Teacher
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s College (established in 1874), Kumamoto Pharmaceutical College (1885), The Fifth High School
High school
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 (1887), Kumamoto Medical College
Medical college
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 (1896), and Kumamoto Technical College (1906).
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