A Brief History: Roots of KCG Group's Pioneering Spirit
The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) was established in 2004 as part of the KCG Group headed by the Kyoto Computer Gakuin or KCG—the first private computer educational institution in Japan founded in 1963 by Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa.]
KCG’s Eki-mae Main campus is centrally located near the Kyoto Station. KCG also has other sites at the Kamogawa Campus which houses the Computer Graphics Art Department and the Rakuhoku Campus where the Computer Informatics Department is found. The KCGI is housed at the Hyakumanben building. The KCG group is also composed of the Kyoto Japanese Language Training Center (KJLTC), KCG Career, Inc. and KCG Co., Ltd.--- all globally oriented education-related institutions. Over nearly half a century, KCG has developed a strong and growing alumni network of 37,000 members who are currently active in the Japanese information industry.
Kyoto Computer Gakuin's incumbent head is Yasuko Hasegawa. She is the first woman to be enrolled at Kyoto University's doctoral program in Astrophysics, and she along with Shigeo Hasegawa formed a study group for IBM 709/7090 and started teaching young faculty and graduate students at Kyoto University. They called the workshop "the FORTRAN Research Seminar" which was later renamed as the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar". This workshop became Kyoto Computer Gakuin (Kyoto School of Computer Science) in 1969. Japan was then entering a period of post-war recovery and rapid economic growth; however, computers were still rare at that time. Only a handful of organizations like major banks, university research centers and airline companies possessed computer technology. At that time people asked: "Why should the average person study computers? What is the computer for?" “What do we need computer education for at this time?” But Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa, both educators, had the foresight of the future society in the IT era.
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