Vistit Kansai University in Osaka, Japan

Kansai University was founded as Kansai Law School in November 1886, in the large commercial city of Osaka. Its founders consisted of a dozen people who were judicial officers and businesspersons.

Law School Building

Road signs in Kansai University

Picture between Leader of University with us. Ph.D Vice Rector (red cavat)

Front Student cafeterias

Student cafeterias

Computer room in Kansai Uni. Library

Students are waiting to borrow textbooks

Bookcase in Library

In the early 1870's, the Ministry of Justice established its own law school. Western legal concepts, including that of human rights, were introduced into Japan by distinguished foreign scholars engaged by the Ministry. The founders of Kansai Law School had studied at this law school, under the French jurist Boissonade de Fontarabie^*1.The idea of individual rights and legal processes independent of central governmental control were new to Japan. Long after the conclusion of their study with Dr. Boissonade, the founders continued to feel that these concepts were vital to the new Japan. They saw it as their duty to popularize jurisprudence in order to spread throughout the nation two notions: that of an independent judiciary, and that of human rights.

Photograph next to bookshelf

Front Side of Library

From this sense of mission sprang the idea of founding a law school. They then sought and received the assistance and cooperation of Kojima Korekata^*2, their superior (and later Chief Justice of Japan's Supreme Court), and Doi Michio, President of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Foreign books

Self Study Area Student

Students Reception area

Thus Kansai Law School made its start as the first law school located in the Kansai area. The founders taught that the law belongs to all citizens, and that, by means of the law, they can and should defend their own rights. This became the origin of the university's academic tradition of nurturing a love of justice and a concern for the protection of the freedom of the individual. Thanks to the support and trust it has won from the general public, our institution has since then steadily developed and diversified.

In 1905 the institution was granted the title ‘Kansai University,’ and subsequently, in 1922, its main campus was removed to its present more extensive site in Suita (a suburb of Osaka), thus paving the way for later growth. etc...

By Bui Van Linh