is a university located in Kumamoto, Japan

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. It was established on May 31, 1949, at which time the following institutions were subsumed into it; Kumamoto Teacher

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s College (established in 1874), Kumamoto Pharmaceutical College (1885), The Fifth High School

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 (1887), Kumamoto Medical College

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 (1896), and Kumamoto Technical College (1906).