Kyoto Imperial University

...A national comprehensive university affiliated with the former Imperial University system, with its headquarters in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. After the Imperial University was founded in Tokyo, plans and movements to establish a university in Kansai continued, and in 1897, Kyoto Imperial University was founded, consisting of four schools: Law, Medicine, Letters, and Science and Engineering (the first president was Kinoshita Hiroji), with the School of Science and Technology being opened first. In 1899, the School of Law and the School of Medicine were opened, and in 1906, the School of Letters, and in 1914, the School of Science and Technology was divided into the School of Science and the School of Engineering. ...

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…京都市左京区に本部をおく旧制帝大系の国立総合大学。東京に帝国大学が創設されると関西にも大学を設置する計画や運動が続けられ，1897年法･医･文･理工の4分科大学からなる京都帝国大学が創設され(初代総長は木下広次)，まず理工科大学が開設された。99年に法科大学と医科大学が，1906年に文科大学が開設され，14年に理工科大学は理科大学と工科大学に分かれた。…

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