Otaru Higher Commercial School

Japanese: 小樽高等商業学校 - おたるこうとうしょうぎょうがっこう

...The city spreads out on terraces from the coast, with the financial and commercial center and downtown area near Otaru Station, and many small and medium-sized industries along the Katsunagawa River in the eastern part of the city. In Temiya, there are ironworks, canning factories, and fishery processing factories, and new factories are being built along National Route 5. In addition to Otaru University of Commerce, which opened in 1910 as Otaru Higher Commercial School, there is also Hokkaido Pharmaceutical University. The western coastal area is designated as the Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Coast Quasi-National Park, and there are many buildings that tell the history of development, such as historical sites such as Temiya Cave, herring fishing ground buildings in Shukutsu, and the former Nippon Yusen branch office (now Otaru City Museum, an important cultural property) and the Bank of Japan branch office in the Ironai district. There are strong calls to preserve the landscape of the stone warehouses along the canal. ...

From the Otaru Commercial High School Incident

…Anti-military education movement occurred at Otaru Higher Commercial School (now Otaru University of Commerce) in 1925. Military training began in secondary schools and above in April of the same year. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Otaru Higher Commercial School" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…市街は海岸から段丘上に広がり，小樽駅付近に金融商業中心地や繁華街があり，中小工業は市街地東部の勝納川沿いに多く，手宮には鉄工，製缶などの工場や水産加工業が立地し，国道5号線沿いに新しい工場立地が進んでいる。1910年小樽高等商業学校として開校した小樽商科大学のほか北海道薬科大学がある。西部の海岸地帯はニセコ積丹小樽海岸国定公園に指定され，手宮洞窟などの史跡，祝津のニシン漁場建築，および色内地区の旧日本郵船支店(現在の小樽市博物館，重要文化財)，日本銀行支店など開拓の歴史を語る建築物が多く，運河沿いの石造倉庫群の景観保全を求める声が強い。…