History
Chiba Institute of Technology began as Kōa Institute of Technology (興亜工業大学, Kōa kōgyō daigaku?). The meaning of Kōa means that Asia wakes up. Kōa Institute of Technology was founded by Higashikuni Naruhiko, Osami Nagano, Kuniyoshi Ohara, Minoru Tōgō, Kotaro Honda, Hidetsugu Yagi, Shigenao Konishi, Yuzuru Hiraga, Nobuteru Mori(Mori Konzern founder･See also Shōwa Denkō), Satoru Mori(Son Nobuteru Mori), Kitaro Nishida, Shunpei Honma, Tokutomi Sohō, Saneatsu Mushanokōji in 1942.
The college was founded as a national policy for the rise of Asia tech. The purpose of the construction of the college was a contribution to the world culture and dissemination of engineering education to the people of Asia.
Kōa Institute of Technology took full-scale support from Tokyo University, Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology as an educational institution to bring up the engineers who would lead a nation. Department of Industrial Engineering and materials management courses,aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering has been installed at the university.
The next person was the goal of Kōa Institute of Technology.
- Kotaro Honda, Thomas Alva Edison, Hideyo Noguchi, Immanuel Kant, Kitaro Nishida etc.
In 1944, the headquarters of the University was moved to Sophia University in Kōjimachi from Tamagawa school. The metallurgy course work was relocated to the Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory yard in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in September.
The Kōjimachi and Kawasaki campus were destroyed during the April 13, 1945 and May 25 Tokyo air raids in World War II. The college was consigned to a class in the Tokyo Institute of Technology until 1946.
The college changed its name into "Chiba Institute of Technology(CIT)" in 1946 and moved to the Kimitu campus. Four years later, it was moved to the present location.
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