Dokkyo University
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| Motto | A University is an institution where character is developed through learning |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1883 |
| President | Tadashi Inui |
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Academic staff
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161 |
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Administrative staff
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153 |
| Undergraduates | 8892 |
| Postgraduates | 143 |
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| Location | Soka, Saitama, Japan |
| Campus | Suburb |
| Colors | Blue |
| Website | http://www.dokkyo.ac.jp/english/index_e.html |
Dokkyo University (獨協大学 Dokkyō Daigaku?) is a private university in Sōka, Saitama, Japan, which is a liberal, co-educational institution noted for its language education programmes and international exchanges.
The name "Dokkyo" is the Japanese-style dual kanji-based abbreviation of Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society (獨逸學協會 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai?). What was to become today's Dokkyo University was founded on 18 September 1881 by those scholars such as Nishi Amane and Katō Hiroyuki, diplomats such as Inoue Kaoru and Aoki Shūzō and statesmen such as Shinagawa Yajirō and Katsura Tarō as Verein für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society (獨逸學協會 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai?), with its first chancellor being Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa. It developed into Schule des Vereins für deutsche Wissenschaften, or German Studies Society School (獨逸學協會學校 Doitsu-gaku Kyōkai Gakkō?) in 1883, which opened its doors exclusively to boys in line with the custom at the time. They also founded a highly prestigious law school to study Japan's first constitution The Constitution of the Great Empire of Japan, modeled after the Prussian one with criminal codes also modeled after the German ones, but the elite law division was absorbed by the Imperial University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1895.
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