Kokugakuin University 4.07

Kokugakuin University is a private university, whose main office is in Tokyo's Shibuya district. The academic program and research of Shinto study, Japanese history, Japanese and Chinese literature and cultural study are highly evaluated in and out of Japan as well as the study of economics, jurisprudence and pedagogy. It was established in 1882.HistoryFrom its beginnings as the Office of Japanese Classics Research, Kokugakuin University was one of the first universities in Japan to gain legal approval to be recognized as such under the university system .The Office of Japanese Classics Research, founded in 1882, in 1890 established a method of teaching the subject of kokugaku called Kokugakuin. In 1920, it rose to the status of a university under the old university system, and after World War II it became a university under Japan's current university system in 1948.