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Kanagawa Prefectural Government (神奈川県)

Kanagawa has had the third largest population out of 47 prefectures in Japan since 1970.

Keio University, Tokyo (慶應義塾)

Category:Universities
Keio has a proud history as Japan's very first private institution of higher learning, which dates back to the formation of a school for Dutch studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo) by founder Yukichi Fukuzawa, who is known as an enlightenment thinker, introducing Western education, institutions, and social thought to Japan and is today portrayed on the 10,000-yen note.

Kersten, Rikki

Japanese history and philosophy.

Kim, Soyeun

Japanese International Political Economy

King, Victor T

South-East Asian Socio-Economic Development and Applied Anthropology

Kittaka, Yuki

Category:Language Tutors
Japanese

Ko, Mika

Japanese Media and Culture

Kodokan

Category:Judo
The Kodokan, which is the temple for all those that practice the sport, was founded in 1882 by the late Prof. Kano, who established Judo.

Kyodo News

Category:Wire Services
Kyodo is a nonprofit cooperative organization run on an annual budget, primarily made up of membership dues and revenues from nonmember subscribers. Its news service is distributed to almost all newspapers and radio-TV networks in Japan. The combined circulation of newspaper subscribers is about 50 million.

Kyoto University, Kyoto (京都大学)

Category:Universities
The university was founded in 1897 as the second public university to be established in Japan. Today, the school has ten Faculties, sixteen Graduate Schools, thirteen Research Institutes, and twenty-one Research and Educational Centres in all scientific fields.

Kyushu University, Fukuoka (九州大学)

Category:Universities
Kyushu University has a long and distinguished history. Its origins can be traced back to 1903 when the Fukuoka Medical College - the direct predecessor of the present Faculty of Medical Sciences - was established and attached to Kyoto Imperial University. In 1911, the College was merged with the College of Engineering and officially opened as Kyushu Imperial University. Over the course of its history, Kyushu University has continued to expand. At present, there are eleven Undergraduate Schools, ...