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About The Name of Yokohama National University

Originally it was planned to name as "Yokohama University", but at that time the previous Yokohama City Economics College and private Yokohama Vocational School also wanted to apply their names as Yokohama University. They had a consultation about the name and decided not to use name "Yokohama University".

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