What we call now Kyushu University was first established as Kyushu Imperial University on January 1, 1911. A decision had been made previously that an Imperial University should be founted in Kyushu in addition to the two existing institutions in Tokyo and Kyoto; accordingly, Fukuoka Medical College, a branch of Kyoto Imperial University, was founded in Fukuoka in April 1903. This became the forerunner of Kyushu Imperial University. The Faculty of Letters was founded by imperial decree as a section within the Faculty of Law and Letters in September 1924. At the same time the titles of its subdivisions and number of chairs were tacited. In 1947, the ordinances governing Japanese Imperial Universities were reformed and at that time, Kyushu University gained its present name and status as a national university. April 1949 saw the separation of the faculties of Law and Letters, and at this juncture the Faculty of Letters became an independent entity. The following month, sweeping reforms of the Japanese educational system took place and although Kyushu University retained its name, a new educational format was introduced under the School Education Law. In April 1953, Kyushu University’s Graduate School was established comprising eight divisions, one of which was the Division of Letters (bungakukenkyūka).The Faculty of Letters began as an amalgamation of twenty subdivisions (kōza)in 1924; by 1998, this number had grown to twenty-four. In April 2000, the undergraduate school was reorganized into the School of Letters consisting of twenty-one subdivisions, grouped broadly into the sections of Philosophy, History, Literature, and Human Sciences. At the same time, the graduate school was reorganized into its present form, consisting of eighteen specialties within three major departments: Philosophy, History and Geography, and Languages and Literature. Following the reorganization of national universities to University Corporations in 2004, the undergraduate and graduate schools of Kyushu University’s Faculty of Letters were renamed the School of Letters and the Graduate School of Humanities, respectively. At Presenc the Schools as a whole boast more than fifty full-time faculty members who are actively engaged in research projects and a book collection of over 500,000 volumes.A total of 10,600 men and women have received an under-graduate degree from the School of Letters since 1928. Prior to the sweeping reforms of 1953, the Graduate School awarded 43 doctoral degrees. Between then and March 2022, 2,227 master’s degrees and 264 doctoral degrees have been granted. A further 282 doctorates were granted based on an external examination of a dissertation. Graduates are active in the fields of education, civil service and, increasingly, in the world of business.This undergraduate Section is subdivided in Western Philosophy / the History of Western Philosophy, Ethics, the History of Indian Philosophy, the History of Chinese Philosophy, and Aesthetics / the History of Art. By examining scholarly traditions past and present and pursuing inquiry into basic, underlying principles, the disciplines in this Section provide the fundamental elements of humanistic scholarship.The Section of History This undergraduate Section is subdivided in Japanese History, Asian History, Korean History, Archaeology, Western History, and the History of Islamic Civilization. Each discipline specializes in a different tradition, but shares emphases on the handling and interpretation of original historical materials and on the investigation of historiographic theory.82HistoryStructureThe School of LettersThe Section of PhilosophyOverview of the School of Letters and Graduate School of Humanities
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