Kenkoku University Explained

Native Name:	Kenkoku Daigaku
Image Upright:	.7
Motto:	Chinese: "五族協和" Japanese: "ごぞくきょうわ" Korean: "오족협화"
Mottoeng:	"Five races under one union"
Type:	Public research university
Chancellor:	Ishiwara Kanji
Vice Chancellor:	Sakata Shoichi (1938—1942) Kamezo Odaka (1942—1945)
City:	Xinjing
Country:	Manchukuo
Campus:	Urban
Former Names:	The Manchurian University
Mascot:	Kanto Star (関東の星)

Kenkoku Daigaku or simply Kendai pronounced as /ja/ was an educational institution in Xinjing (modern Changchun, Jilin province), the capital of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in occupied Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It operated from May 1938 to August 7, 1945.

The university was founded in 1938 by General Kanji Ishiwara, and was run by Professor Shoichi Sakuda of Kyoto University.^[1] Its purpose was to promote "ethnic harmony" in the region, legitimising and promoting the Japanese occupation.^[2] To this end, students were recruited from Japan, China proper, Mongolia, Taiwan, Manchuria, Korea and Russia.^[3] As well as offering free tuition, the University also provided its students with board and lodgings, and a stipend.^[4]

The university closed in 1945 when the Kwantung Army were beaten by Soviet red army.^[1]

A number of influential aikido practitioners trained and taught at the University, including aikido's founder Morihei Ueshiba,^[5] Kenji Tomiki, Shigenobu Okumura and Noriaki Inoue.^[6]

Multiple students of Kenkoku University later became prominent political figures in South Korea—including later South Korean prime minister Kang Young-hoon—, North Korea and China.^[7] The first test for applicants within Joseon was held at Gyeongseong Women's Normal School in Susong-dong for three days starting on December 27. It was unusual that the physical examination was the first. He said : "If you want to work in Manchuria, you must first be physically healthy, so consider your health first" (Entrance Exam Suffering No. 1, Chosun Ilbo, December 28, 1937). Of the 670 applicants, 90 (60 Koreans and 30 Japanese) were selected. The competition rate was 7.4 to 1.

See also

• Manchukuo Marxism
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Keijō Imperial University
• Ritsumeikan University
• Changchun University
• Konkuk University
• Whampoa Military Academy
• Long March
• Cultural Revolution
• Reform and Opening-up
• Nordpolitik

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• Yuka Hiruma-Kishida (author) & Christopher Gerteis (series editor), Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan), SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, Bloomsbury Academic, London, England, United Kingdom, October 3, 2019., .
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Japanese

• 志々田文明 . 1993 . 建国大学の教育と石原莞爾 . 人間科学研究 . 0916-0396 . 早稲田大学人間科学学術院 . 6 . 1 . 109–123 . 2065/3873.
• Book: 湯治万蔵 . 建國大學年表 . 建国大学同窓会建大史編纂委員会 . 1981 . . 10.11501/12115666 . 非売品 . 570. 昭和11年の建大創設構想に基く初動から昭和20年の閉学に至るまでの経過が日付を追って詳細に記録されている。非売品。
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• Book: 三浦英之 . 五色の虹 : 満州建国大学卒業生たちの戦後 . 集英社 . 2015 . 9784087815979 . . .
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• 三浦英之『五色の虹　満州建国大学卒業生たちの戦後』、2015年。ISBN 978-4087815979。
• 山根幸夫『建国大学の研究―日本帝国主義の一断面』 汲古書院、2003年。ISBN 4762925489
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Korean

• ‘만주 건국대학’이라는 실험과 육당 최남선 (Choe Nam-seon and Kenkoku University as a Testing Ground for ‘Concord of Nationalities’ in Manchukuo), 사회와역사(구 한국사회사학회논문집), 2016, vol., no.110, pp. 309-352 (44 pages), UCI : G704-000024.2016..110.011, 발행기관 : 한국사회사학회, 연구분야 : 사회과학 > 사회학

Russian

• Лестев А.Е. Использование социально-утопических идей в японской континентальной политике в Маньчжоу-го и Монголии // Россия - Китай: история и культура: сборник статей и докладов участников XI Международной научно-практической конференции. – Казань: Изд-во Академии наук РТ, 2018. С. 200-206.

Vietnamese

• Lý Đông A, Ký trình: Ngày giờ đã khẩn cấp!, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China, 1943.
• Lý Đông A, Tuyên ngôn ngày thành lập Việt Duy Dân Đảng, Hoa-Binh, Tonkin, Indochina, 1943.
• Masaya Shiraishi (author) & Ngô Bắc (translator), Việt Nam Kiến Quốc Quân và cuộc khởi nghĩa năm 1940 (Nation-Building Army of Viet-Nam and the 1940 Revolt), December 21, 2009.
• Ernest Ming-tak Leung (author) & Ngọc Giao (translator), Trường đại-học kiến-thiết tương-lai Á-châu (The school that built Asia), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2022.

External links

• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere at Britannica
• Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East
• WW2DB: Greater East Asia Conference
• All about the Asiacentricity
• An Anatomy of Eurocentrism in Communication Scholarship: The Role of Asiacentricity in De-Westernizing Theory and Research
• The Asiacentric Idea in Communication: Understanding the Significance of a Paradigm
• Asian Communication Studies at the Crossroads: A View to the Future from an Asiacentric Framework
• Toward an Alternative Metatheory of Human Communication: An Asiacentric Vision
• Theorizing Culture and Communication in the Asian Context: An Assumptive Foundation
• Zionism and the Japanese East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Japanese references to Mantetsu Railway Company

Notes and References

1. Book: Kevin Doak. A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People. 2007. BRILL. 978-90-04-15598-5. 241.
2. Book: David H. Price. Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. 19 May 2008. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-8912-5. 69–70.
3. Book: Hiruma Kishida, Yuka. 2019. Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism. Bloomsbury Academic. 9781350057869.
4. Web site: Tatsuhiko. Yoshizawa. The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal. Japan Focus. Asia-Pacific Journal. 5 December 2013.
5. Book: Stevens, John. Invincible Warrior: A Pictorial Biography of Morihe Ueshiba, the Founder of Aikido. 1999. Shambhala. Boston, London. 9781570623943. 63.
6. Web site: Pranin . Stanley . Interview with Shigenobu Tomura . Aiki Journal . 5 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131216191141/http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=203 . 16 December 2013 .
7. Web site: Leung. Ernest Ming-tak. 2021-08-20. The School That Built Asia. 2021-10-22. Palladium. en-US.