Campus of Kyushu University

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Kyushu University (九州大学 Kyūshū Daigaku) in Fukuoka, Japan was established as Fukuoka Medical College in 1903, which was affiliated with Kyoto Imperial University. Kyushu Imperial University was founded in 1911. In 1947, after World War II ended, the university changed its name to Kyushu University.[1] The university is composed of six campuses: Chikushi, Hospital, Ito, Ohashi, Hakozaki, and Beppu.[2] There are numerous historic buildings dating back to the many phases of history the university has seen. The Third Residential Complex on-campus has a western-style design and is reserved for foreign students. The complex dates back to 1924 and has been designated as a Municipal Cultural Property.[3][4]

Hospital (Maidashi) Campus

The Hospital campus is the oldest campus and has many historic structures. It is located in Maidashi, which was once a quarter on the outskirts of Fukuoka-City, but nowadays is part of Higashi-ku.

University Hospital

Medical Center
The new University Hospital was constructed in three stages.[5] It has twelve floors; eleven are above ground and one is underground, with a total floor space of approximately 118,000 m2. Construction started in April 1998 and was finished by March 2008. It is the largest hospital under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, and the first one to have a seismic isolation system.[5][6]
The Outpatient Ward has six floors; five are above ground and one underground, and houses 28 departments.[5]
This building was constructed in March 2008.[5] It houses the Yusho Dioxine Research and Care Center[7] and the Training Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery.[8]
This center was completed in 1985.
This Ward was constructed in 1967 and closed in 2000.

Architecture dating from the Imperial University era

Faculty of Medicine, Basic Medical Research Building A
These buildings were designed by Engo Iwasaki and Ken Kurata and construction was completed in April 1931. Since their renovation, the ground floor houses have been used as a cafeteria.[9][5][10]　
This three-story building was constructed in 1935 by the Kaneko Group.[11]
This building, designed by Shūzō Kunitake, was completed in 1934.
This tile-roofed wooden house is the oldest remaining structure in Kyushu University. It was designed by the local office of the Education Ministry's architecture department and built in 1903.[12]
This three-story concrete building was designed by Ken Kurata and completed in May 1927.[13] After eight decades it was dismantled.[5][14]

Research establishments

Collective Research II
Its total floor space is 5,194 m2 is built of steel-reinforced concrete and has nine floors. It was established in March 2000, and construction was overseen by Sumitomo Mitsui Construction, design management was done by So Kikaku Sekkei Ltd.[15]
Its construction was overseen by the Mizoe Kensetsu Corporation. It is a steel-reinforced concrete seven-story building with a total area of 10562.96 m2.[16]
The construction of this nine-story building was completed in October 2004. Its construction was overseen by a joint-venture group in cooperation with Obayashi Corporation, Wakachiku Construction Corporation and Zenkōmuten Corporation.[5]

Educational establishments

Clinical Science Medicine Building B
It was constructed in 1975 and has a ground-floor area of 5,828 m2.
It was constructed in 1976 and has a ground-floor area of 6,874 m2.
It was constructed in 1976.
It was constructed in 1981 and has a ground-floor area of 406.5 m2.
It was constructed in 1967 and has a ground-floor area of 7,977 m2[5]

Library, Museum, Sports facilities, Centennial Hall, Alumni House, Parking facilities

It was constructed in 1956.[5]
This facility is used for congresses, conferences and all kinds of academic meetings. There is also a cafeteria. Its construction was completed in 2008.[5]
This two-story concrete building is the first Museum for the History of Medicine in Japan.[17] The Kubo-Memorial-Building was donated to Inokichi Kubo, the first professor and founder of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, by the members of the Shisan-kai, an alumni association of the Kubo school, on 8 May 1927 at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the school, and later donated to Kyushu Imperial University. In 1999 and 2003 the building was renovated.[18]
It was built in 1965 and has a ground-floor area of 1,083 m2.[19]
Repair work to its artificial grass was done in 2009 by Kofu-field Company.[20]
It was constructed in 1967 as a part of the 50th-anniversary celebrations of Kyushu University. A small lecture hall was added in 1980.[21]

Dwelling facilities and nursery

It was constructed in 1967[22]
Provides facilities for nurses, rent-free apartments are one-room style stateroom with bathroom and kitchen.[23]
Day care center for children of faculty members of Kyushu University in the Maidashi campus. Opened on 24 November 2008.[24][25]

Facilities for the bodies of anatomical donors

There are several facilities for the bodies of anatomical donors. The Charnel House is a Japanese-style house built in 1939, but nowadays there is a funeral chapel in the new Hospital Building. Donor bodies are cremated in a crematorium. There is also a monument demonstrating the gratitude and respect for those who donated their body for medical research and education.[26]

Memorial Streets

Generally, all former Imperial Universities have statues commemorating famous alumni and professors. On the Maidashi campus of Kyushu University, streets are named after them.[27]

This street runs east and west from the main gate. Ōmori Street honors professor Ōmori Harutoyo, the first president of Fukuoka Medical School, the forerunner of Kyushu Imperial University Medical School.[28][29]
This street runs from north to south from the intersection with Ōmori Street. Miyairi Street honors Keinosuke MIYAIRI, a professor at Kyushu Imperial University Medical School and a well-known researcher of parasites and sanitarians.[30][31]
Inokichi Kubo was a professor of Kyushu University Medical School and a pioneer of otorhinolaryngology in Japan.[32][33]
The bacteriologist Ryukichi Inada was a professor of Kyushu Imperial University Medical School's first department of internal medicine.[34][35]
The pathologist Sunao Tawara was a professor at Fukuoka Medical School and is internationally known for his pioneering research on the conduction system of the mammalian heart.[36][37]
Hakaru Hashimoto Ph.D. was a medical scientist, discoverer of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and the first alumnus of Kyushu Imperial University Medical School.[38][39]

Hakozaki Campus

The Hakozaki Campus is located about 1 km east of the Maidashi Campus. It is scheduled to be relocated to the Ito campus.

Buildings dating from the era of Imperial Kyushu University

Administration Bureau
This two story brick building was designed by Ken Kurata and was built in 1925. The building material was reused brick taken from the admission building of the department of technology Kyushu Imperial University, which burned in 1923. After the execution[5] it was used as tentative laboratory and office of the department of technology. In 1928 the head office of University, previously located in Law school building, moved there.[40]
In 1922, Albert Einstein visited Japan, and on 25 December, he visited Kyushu Imperial University, when he took a ceremonial photograph with professors in front of the department of technology.[41]
This building is a three-story reinforced concrete building. It was designed by Ken Kurata and constructed in April 1924. The front of this building was constructed by Iwasaki-gumi, and the back of the building by Satake Kōmu-sho. In September 1925, the head office of University removed from the area of medical school to this building, in March 1928 when it moved from the department of technology building it used.[42]
This building is a three-story reinforced concrete building and tower, which housed the ATCT.[5][43] It was designed by Harusaburō Shimaoka and Yoshikatsu Tsuboi and was completed in March 1939.[5]
It was Kyushu Imperial University School of Engineering main gate (九州帝國大學工科大學正門), and was constructed in 1911 and was made of brick.:[44] The gate is a representative architecture of Kyushu University, it is often depicted on the cover of pamphlets from Kyushu University. It was constructed in 1922, but its designer and construction company are not known.[45] The wall of used brick surrounds the science area of Hakozaki campus. It is used as location of the movie K-20 Kaijin nijyu-menso-den (K-20 怪人二十面相・伝) in 2008.[46]
It was Kyushu Imperial University the psychology school letter of the law. This is a two story reinforced concrete building and was constructed in March 1927, it was designed by Ken Kurata.[47]
It was the School of Applied Chemistry in the department of engineering of Kyushu Imperial University. It is a four-story reinforced concrete building, and was completed in October 1927. It was designed by Ken Kurata and Setsuzō Ibara.[48]
The main building of the engineering department of Kyushu Imperial University is a three-story reinforced concrete building and tower. It was designed by Ken Kurata (倉田謙); construction began in November 1928 and was completed in November 1930 by Shimizu gumi (清水組).[49] The office of Kyushu University Institute for Advanced Study (高等研究院 Kōtōkenkyūin) is located in the first-floor room 107.[50]
It is a three-story reinforced concrete building.[5] This building was the Kyushu Imperial University administration building for agricultural chemistry in the agricultural department. It was designed by Shuzo Kunitake (國武周蔵) and constructed by Shimizu gumi (清水組) in September 1938.[51]

Research facilities

Gate, Hall, Rehab

It was constructed in 1967 and designed by Kenji Kokichi (光吉健次) and the school and the general architecture design investigation.[52]

Ito campus

Learning & Community Space Q-Commons

It is located in 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 〒819-0395.

West Zone

Research facilities

It is an experimental aquarium for the study of vessel motion used by a section of Marine Engineers. Its gross floor area of it is 2126.24 m2 and area of architecture is 1816.01 m2, constructed by Namihira Sangyo, electrical construction was done by Sanko Denki Kogyo, and setting of the machine was Sanken Setsubi Kogyo Co, Ltd.[53]
It is an integrated investigation Kyushu University, which is an education research center for hydrogen energy in Japan and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. This architecture is single story steel structure and gross floor area of it is 1013.71 m2 and area of architecture is 1031.36 m2 and is designed by Takumi Architects Co, Ltd. and Sogo Setsubi Consulting Co, Ltd. and constructed by Nishinakasuhiguchi Construction Co, Ltd. and Miyafusa reiki.[54]
It is SRC and iron structure and rises nine-stories above the ground and one underground story, gross floor area is 55,478 m2, and building area is 7,860 m2, designed by Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc. Cesar Pelli & Associates Japan, and Mishima Sekkei-jimusho.
West Zone 3 construction was done by Kohnoike, Aoki and Kamimura J V, electric work was done by Nishitetsu densetsu kogyo, machine work was Nishihara Engineering Co, Ltd. elevator was Schindler Elevator K.K., about West Zone 3 & 4, construction was done by Shimizu, Okumura, Matsumoto JV, electric work was done by Kyudenko, Kuriharanto and Kyushu system JV, machine work was Sanki, Fuji, Kyushu Hitashi JV, elevator was Otis Elevator Company, about West Zone 4, constructed by Toda, Kumagaya and Mizoe JV, and electric work was done by Toenec Corporation and Asahi JV, machine work was Shin bishi, Urayasu, Chiytoda JV and elevator was Toshiba-elevator.[55]
It rises eleven stories above the ground and one underground story, gross floor area is 54,365 m2, and the building area is 6,126 m2, designed by REQ Okamoto, and constructed by Nishimatsu Construction, Shinryo Corporation, Kyudenko Corporation, Dai-Dan Co, Ltd, Hishinetsu JV.
This building is an educational Research facility located section of geoenvironmental engineering and System Information graduate school. On the lower level floors there is a special laboratory, in the first and second floor is an information room, the third-story contains a lecture room and above the fourth floor are sections for geoenvironmental engineering and System Information. From first floor to eleven floor Foucault pendulum has the longest wire in Japan is installed in it.[56]
This is the most-advanced electron microscope observation facilities in the world, which aims to find out the state and architecture of atomic element and molecule. It is a three-story reinforced concrete building with a floor area of it is 377.35 m2 and area of architecture is 273.11 m2 and is designed by Na-no-tsu Kotobuki Kenchiku jimusho (那の津寿建築研究所, Na-no-tsu Kotobuki architect studio) and constructed by the branch firm of Shimizu Corporation, Akebono Denki Kōgyo, and Nomura Shōten.[57]
IMCE aims to be a world-class center of materials chemistry research with an international group of researchers and it is divided into three parts in the districts of Chikushi, Hakozaki and Ito.[58]
It is a core facility, which supplies electrical energy to the whole campus. On the first floor are dynamo rooms, super transformer rooms etc., on the second floor are general monitoring rooms of general monitor center. It is a reinforced concrete structure rising two stories, with a gross floor area of 1,378 m2, and a building area of 1,016 m2, was designed by Azusa Sekkei, constructed by Iwasaki Kensetsu, electrical work was Hoshino Denko-sha, equipment was Showa Denko.[59]
It is a lecture room for faculty of engineering. This building is three-story SRC structure, and partly is RC, and its gross floor area is 1,291.13 m2 and the building area is 662.09 m2.[60]
It is SRC and partly is iron structure.[61]
It is a facility supply cryogen such as liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, its gross floor area is 406.80 m2 and the building area is 435.75 m2, constructed by PFI, Ito community service.[62]
It is a facility for experimental trial and studying of ambient systems. Its gross floor area is 1343.98 m2 and the building area is 972.95 m2, construction was done by Heisei Kensetus, electrical work was done by kyushodensetsu., machine work was Kawamoto Industry Corporation.[63]
The gross floor area is 640,000 m2, building area is 696,77 m2, and constructed by Ito community service.[64]

Library, Hall, Rehab

It is a reinforced concrete structure and rises one story above the ground and includes one underground story which was designed by Kume. Its gross floor area is 6,976 m2, and building area is 3,535 m2, designed by Kume Sekisei Co.LTD, design of electrical and machine work was done by Setsubigiken, elevator was Kyushu University facility department, and constructed by construction work was Zenidaka and Hokuyo tokutei kensetsu joint-venture group, and electric work was Shimada denki shokai, machine work was Takasago Thermal Engineering Co, Ltd., elevator work was Toshiba-elevator.co, Ltd.[65]
INAMORI Frontier Research Center, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (12CNER).[66]
It is a public lecture room and facility for graduates. It is reinforced concrete structure and rise three-stories above the ground and one underground story, its gross floor area is 4,820.43 m2, and the building area is 2,144.99 m2. It was designed and constructed by Sato Kogyo, electric work and machine work was done by Sadenko.[67]
It was designed by Ritsuko TAHO (田甫律子) and is made of Itsuki stone describes dynamism of the terra of Kyushu with the power to stay alive and energy.[68]

Center Zone

It supplies overall clean water and resurgent water for experiments and sewage. There are 30 water treatment receiving tanks, and processing units on the 1st and 2nd floor. The gross floor area is 2,043 m2, and the building area is 1822 m2, designed by Kyushu University facilities department, design for execution is Wesko and constructed by Tokukura Corporation, Wesco Corporation, Beppu Dengyo, and Sanwa shokai.[69]
Faculties of Social and Culture Studies, Faculty of Languages and Cultures. Its floor area is 8164.68 m2, and the building area is 1210.31 m2, and it was constructed by Asuka Kensetsu, its electrical work was done by Kyu-denko, and machine work was done by Kawamoto Kogyo.[70]
Big Orange is a facility of transmission of information in Kyushu University Ito campus. There is a meeting reception room, restaurant, and a book store.[71]

Chikushi campus

C-CUBE

It is located at 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580.

Research facilities

KASTEC (Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University) was established in 2003 with the amalgamation of Kyushu University and Kyushu Institute of Design.[72]
This building has seven stories. On the ground floor and the second floor is the library and the third floor to the seventh is research space.[73]
It was constructed in Apr. 1982, and is an on-campus collaborative education research facility.[74]
the Division of Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics, the Division of Plasma and Material Science, the Dynamics Simulation Research Center (DSRC), and the Advanced Fusion Research Center(AFRC).[75]
Fusion research reactor (Q-shu Univ. Exp. with Steady-State Spherical Tokamak)[76]
The generator supplies electricity for QUEST.[77]
Department of Fundamental Organic Chemistry, Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, Department of Integrated Materials, Department of Advanced Device Materials.[78]
International Graduate School of Engineering Sciences.[78]
Department of Earth System Science and Technology.[78][79]
Department of Advanced Energy Engineering School of Engineering.[78]
The Institute was established in 1989.[78][80]
Itoh-Inagaki Laboratory.[78][81]

Other facilities

There are two gates in Chikushi campus, Onojo Gate faced in front of JR Onjo Sta. and it is within a one minute walk to the JR station but blocks up the passage of vehicles.[78]
Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Institute of Health Science, Center of Advanced Instrumental Analysis, Art, Science, and Technology Center for Cooperative Research.[82]

Ōhashi campus

Bldg.2

It is located in 4-9-1 Shiobaru Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540.

Research facilities

On the cusp of retirement the universities corporate status a year before[clarification needed], Kyushu Institute of Design was absorbed into Kyushu University in 2003.

Movie editing room for the Department of Visual Communication Design. Studios, darkrooms.[84]
Laboratories for The Department of Environmental Design, The Department of Visual Communication Design, Drafting Rooms, Staff Rooms.[84]
Laboratories, staff rooms, and lecture hall for the Department of Industrial Design and Department of Acoustic Design.[84]
Laboratories and classrooms for the Department of Environmental Design.[84]
Staff rooms for the Department of Visual Communication Design, the Department of Art and Information Design, and the Department of Design Strategy.[84]
Staff rooms for the Department of Applied Information and Communication Sciences, and the Department of Design Strategy.[84]
Laboratories of the Department of Art and Information Design and Department of Design Strategy.[84]
Physics, chemistry, and biology Laboratories, along with staff and student rooms.[84]
A Laboratory of the Department of Environmental Design for architectural-related experiments.[84]
Highly advanced controlled environment facilities for the Department of Industrial Design. It was established in 1971 by Kyushu Institute of Design and completely reconstructed in 2001.[84][85]
Facilities and staff for university-industry collaboration.[84][86]
A printmaking studio for the Department of Visual Communication Design.[84]
Woodworking, welding, and metalworking equipment.[84]
Equipment and facilities for motion capture, and 3D visual experiments[84]

Other facilities

The total open system was adapted to it. There is a video room and a stereo room.[87]
Multiuse facility, central laboratory hall, basic experiment room and exhibit hall.[84]
On the first floor is the Registrar and Student Affairs, and on the second floor there are General Affairs and Accounting Departments.[84][88]
Convenience store and cafeteria on the 1st floor, and the Health Service Center on the 2nd floor.[83][84]
Facilities include; Basketball court, martial arts practice area, shower rooms, and weight training room[84]

Beppu

It is located in 4546 Tsurumihara Tsurumi, Beppu, Oita 874-0838.

Satellite office

The Tokyo Office relocated to the Yurakucho Building from the Marunouchi Naka-dori Building on April 19, 2008.[89]
The Kyushu University Hakata station building office (九州大学博多駅オフィス) was established on the eleventh floor of JR Hakata city (JR博多シティ) in 2011.[90]
It is located in front of Ōhashi Station on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line.[91]

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