Kokushikan University

Kokushikan University is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Combined teams of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Department of Science and Engineering competed against 130 team and came in 11th place in the 27th Formula SAE in 2007. This is the highest order at the participation university from Japan at present. The basic origins of Kokushikan University lie in the Kokushikan private academy which was discovered in Tokyo&s;s Azabu District in 1917, midway through Japan&s;s turbulent Taisho period. Founder Tokujiro Shibata and his young colleagues envisaged that this academy would "cultivate competent individuals endowed with wisdom and courage." Kokushikan, which has produced more than 146,000 graduates active in all spheres of society. Since its foundation in 1917, Kokushikan University has been working diligently to realize the educational philosophy, which is aimed to cultivate students so that they can contribute to the world peace and development. In the statement of the purport for establishing Kokushikan University, the significance of spiritual civilization is noted, lamenting the social malady of material civilization. Also, the university has been working consistently to instill a spirit of "knowledge and action", which has become a tradition over the years, and at present, the university offers education based on this principle.