Kindai University

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Kindai University

近畿大学
Motto	「実学教育」と「人格の陶冶」
Motto in English	‘learning for the real world’ and ‘nurturing intellectual and emotional intelligence’
Type	Private
Established	Founded 1925, Chartered 1949
President	Hiroyuki Hata
Academic staff	920 full-time
Undergraduates	30,379
Postgraduates	N/A
Location	Higashiosaka , Osaka , Japan 34°39′05″N 135°35′13″E / 34.651413°N 135.586964°E / 34.651413; 135.586964
Campus	Urban / Suburban, 271 acres (1.1 km²)
Athletics	48 varsity teams
Mascot	Devils (American football) [1]
Website	www.kindai.ac.jp/english/

Kindai University (Japanese: 近畿大学, Hepburn: Kinki daigaku) is a private non-sectarian and coeducational university based in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan with campuses in five other locations: Nara, Nara; Ōsakasayama, Osaka; Uchita, Wakayama; Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima; and Iizuka, Fukuoka.

The English name of the university had been Kinki University since its establishment in 1949 to refer to "the surrounding area of the capital city (Kyoto)". On May 20, 2014, the university announced that its English name would officially change to Kindai (近大), to avoid the implications of the word "kinky", as the university was planning to globalize with the establishment of a new Foreign Language school.^[2] The name change took effect on April 1, 2016.^[3]