Kindai University

Kinki University is known as a ‘mammoth university’ with one of the largest numbers of faculties and departments, founded on the educational philosophy of ‘practical learning’ and ‘cultivating character.’ It has recorded Japan’s highest number of applicants for general entrance exams for six consecutive years through the 2019 academic year, and its popularity has continued to rise in recent years. Headquartered in Kowakae, Higashiosaka City, the university was founded in 1949 by Koichi Seko. It began as a specialized school with only faculties of science and engineering and commerce, but it added faculties over time to meet changing needs and has grown into one of Japan’s leading private comprehensive universities, now with 14 faculties and 48 departments. After 32 years of research, it achieved the world’s first successful full-cycle farming of bluefin tuna in 2002, becoming internationally recognized for this accomplishment. Since 2013, the university has opened a restaurant specializing in farmed fish—‘Kindaizumi no Sakana to Kishu no Megumi: Kinki University Fisheries Research Institute’—at the 6th floor of the North Building of Grand Front Osaka’s Knowledge Capital, as well as in Ginza, Tokyo, where you can enjoy farmed bluefin tuna. In addition to tuna, it has also released initiatives and products such as biocoke, Kindaikan oranges, and industry–academia collaboration products reflecting student ideas.