Nagasaki University

Nagasaki University, written in Japanese as 長崎大学 and romanised as Nagasaki daigaku with the short form Chōdai, is a national university of Japan whose main Bunkyo Campus lies in the Bunkyo-machi quarter of Nagasaki city, the historic capital of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.长崎大学日语写作長崎大学、简称长大，是日本的一所国立大学，主校区文京校区位于九州长崎县历史首府长崎市的文京町。

It was created in 1949 by merging six predecessor institutions, above all Nagasaki Medical College, whose origin in a Tokugawa medical training institute of November 1857 makes it one of the very oldest roots of Western-style, rather than herbal, medicine anywhere in Japan.该校于 1949 年由六所前身机构合并而成，尤以长崎医科大学为要，其 1857 年 11 月源自德川幕府医学传习所的开端，使它是日本全境西医而非汉医最古老的渊源之一。

Its School of Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Atomic Bomb Disease Institute give it a global profile in medicine, tropical and infectious-disease research and radiation biology, since its medical college stood only a few hundred metres from the 1945 atomic-bomb hypocenter.其医学部、热带医学研究所与原子弹疾病研究所赋予它在医学、热带与传染病研究及放射生物学上的全球地位，因其医学院在 1945 年距原子弹爆心仅数百米。

History

• In November 1857 the Nagasaki office of the Tokugawa Shogunate founded a Medical Training Institute, called in Japanese Igaku denshūsho, one of the earliest schools in Japan to teach Western rather than traditional herbal medicine.1857 年 11 月，德川幕府长崎办事处设立医学传习所，为日本最早的西医而非传统汉医学校之一。

• The first professor of that institute was Pompe van Meerdervoort, a Dutch physician in shogunal service who introduced Western clinical teaching, surgery and the earliest photography to Japan from his Nagasaki base.该所首任教授彭佩·范·梅尔德沃特是效力幕府的荷兰医生，从长崎基地将西医临床教学、外科与最早摄影术引入日本。

• In 1861 a hospital was opened beside the training institute, and after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 the school passed first under prefectural and then under direct national control as a public medical institution.1861 年在传习所旁开设医院，1868 年明治维新后该校先归县立、再收归国立，成为公立医学机构。

• In 1901 the public school was reorganised and developed into the Nagasaki Vocational School of Medicine, the dedicated college-level stage in the long medical lineage that the university now inherits.1901 年该公立学校改组发展为长崎医学专门学校，是该校今所继承的漫长医学世系中专门的大学层级阶段。

• In 1923 the vocational school was upgraded into Nagasaki Medical College, which then encompassed a college hospital and a college of pharmaceutical sciences, the fullest form of the prewar medical institution.1923 年专门学校升格为长崎医科大学，其时统辖大学医院与药学专门部，为战前医学机构最完备的形态。

• Once Japan entered the Pacific War the college added a Temporary College of Medicine in 1940 and, in 1942, an East Asia Research Institute of Endemics that was later reborn as today's Institute of Tropical Medicine.日本卷入太平洋战争后，该校于 1940 年增设临时医学专门学校，1942 年设立东亚热带病研究所，后者重生日即为今之热带医学研究所。

• On 9 August 1945 the atomic bomb devastated Nagasaki, and because Nagasaki Medical College lay only 500 to 700 metres from the hypocenter more than 800 professors, students and medical workers perished in the blast.1945 年 8 月 9 日原子弹摧毁长崎，因长崎医科大学距爆心仅 500 至 700 米，逾 800 名师生与医务人员在爆炸中罹难。

• The college was evacuated to the town of Omura in September 1945 and then moved again to Isahaya in 1946, functioning in exile while its own site lay in ruins for years afterwards.该校于 1945 年 9 月先迁往大村镇，1946 年再迁至谏早，在其旧址长期沦为废墟期间流亡办学。

• After the postwar return the college's ruined Sakamoto Campus was restored only in 1950, the year after the institution had already been folded into the new Nagasaki University formed in 1949.战后重返之际，该校残破的坂本校区直到 1950 年方才修复，而它在此前一年即已并入 1949 年新成立的长崎大学。

• In 1949 Nagasaki Medical College, Nagasaki College of Economics, Nagasaki Normal School, Nagasaki Youth Normal School and Nagasaki Higher School were consolidated under the National School Establishment Law as the new Nagasaki University.1949 年，长崎医科大学、长崎经济专门学校、长崎师范学校、长崎青年师范学校与长崎高等学校依学校教育法合并为新制长崎大学。

• The newly merged university's main Bunkyo Campus was deliberately laid out on the cleared site of the wartime Mitsubishi Arms Factory Ohashi Plant, an industrial ground converted to peaceful learning at the war's end.新合并大学的主校区文京校区特意规划在战时三菱兵器制作所大桥工场的清理旧址上，将工业用地于战争结束之际转为和平学府。

• Alongside medicine the university grew engineering, environmental and marine-fisheries teaching, today represented by the Faculty of Engineering and the Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, reflecting the port city's long ties to the sea.在医学之外，该校亦发展出工学、环境与海洋水产教学，今以工学部与国际藻类环境科学研究科为代表，映照这座港口城市与海洋的悠久渊源。

• The Institute of Tropical Medicine traces its founding to the 1942 East Asia Research Institute of Endemics and has conducted continuous basic and applied studies on tropical and emerging diseases since 1946.热带医学研究所可溯至 1942 年的东亚热带病研究所，自 1946 年起持续从事热带与新发疾病的基础与应用研究。

• The economic lineage of the university began in March 1905 as the Nagasaki Higher Commercial School, the fourth national commercial college after Tokyo, Kobe and Yamaguchi, founded to train merchants for trade with China, Korea and Southeast Asia.该校经济渊源始于 1905 年 3 月的长崎高等商业学校，为继东京、神户、山口之后的第四所国立商科高校，旨在培养面向中国、朝鲜与东南亚贸易的商业人才。

• In 1917 the higher commercial school added a one-year Advanced Course for Trade and in 1919 built a distinctive brick hall for it, the Keirin Hall that still stands today as the emblem of the economics faculty.1917 年该校增设一年制高等商业研修科，1919 年为其建成独特的砖砌讲堂，即至今仍作经济学部标志的径联堂。

• In 1944 the commercial school was renamed Nagasaki College of Economics, and although the city was destroyed by the bomb, its Katafuchi Campus was shielded by Mount Kompira and afterwards housed the rebuilt Faculty of Economics.1944 年商科学校改称长崎经济专门学校，全城虽毁于原子弹，其片渊校区因金刚山遮挡而幸存，其后安置重建的经济学部。

• In 1944 the Nagasaki Youth Normal School, one of the five institutions later merged in 1949, had already been preparing local teachers for the prefecture's elementary schools throughout the war years.1944 年前后，1949 年并入的五校之一的长崎青年师范学校，于战争年代一直在为该县的初等学校培养地方师资。

• The Nagasaki Normal School and Nagasaki Higher School, oldest of the non-medical constituents, contributed the teaching and general-education base that became the university's Faculty and Graduate School of Education after 1949.师范学校与长崎高等学校作为非医学成员中最老者，提供了教学与通识根基，1949 年后演为该校的教育学部与教育学研究科。

• In 2004, following the nationwide corporatisation of Japanese state universities, the reorganised institution was reconstituted as the National University Corporation Nagasaki University with greater managerial autonomy.2004 年，随日本国公立院校全国性法人化，改组后的机构被重建为拥有更大管理自主权的国立大学法人长崎大学。

Academics

• Undergraduate teaching on the Bunkyo Campus is organised into the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences together with the Faculties of Education, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering and Environmental Studies.文京校区的本科教学设国际人文社会科学部，并辖教育学、药学、工学与环境科学研究各学部。

• The School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry are seated on the rebuilt Sakamoto Campus, the medical quarter that lies only a short distance from the atomic-bomb hypocenter.医学部与齿学部设于重建的坂本校区，即距原子弹爆心仅咫尺之遥的医学区。

• The Faculty of Economics occupies the surviving Katafuchi Campus, the ground spared by Mount Kompira during the 1945 bombing and now centred on the 1919 Keirin Hall.经济学部使用幸存的片渊校区，该地 1945 年轰炸中为金刚山所屏蔽，今以 1919 年建成的径联堂为中心。

• The Graduate School of Education offers master's courses only, devoted to training and re-training teachers for the schools of Nagasaki Prefecture and the wider Kyushu region.教育学研究科仅设硕士课程，专责为长崎县及更广阔九州地区的学校培养与再培训师资。

• The Graduate School of Economics and the Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences carry forward the commercial-school and letters traditions inherited from the 1905 and prewar institutions.经济学研究科与国际人文社会科学学研究科承继自 1905 年商科学校与战前诸校传下的商学与文学传统。

• The Graduate School of Science and Technology covers the engineering and physical sciences, while the Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences continues Nagasaki's long marine and fisheries research.自然科学研究科涵盖工学与数理科学，国际藻类环境科学研究科则延续长崎悠久的海洋与水产研究。

• The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences integrates medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences and the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute into a single graduate faculty of the life and health sciences.生物医学研究科将医学、齿学、药学与原子弹疾病研究所整合为单一的生命与健康科学研究科。

• The Graduate School of International Health Development offers master's courses only and prepares public-health specialists for the developing countries of Asia, Africa and the Pacific.国际保健发展研究科仅设硕士课程，为亚洲、非洲与太平洋地区的发展中国家培养公共卫生专才。

• The Institute of Tropical Medicine, descended from the wartime 1942 endemics institute, is designated a Joint Usage and Research Center by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.热带医学研究所源自战时的 1942 年东亚热带病研究所，被日本国文部科学省指定为共同利用·共同研究中心。

• The institute maintains permanent research field stations in Vietnam and Kenya and collaborates across Africa, South America and Asia through JICA, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the WHO.该所在越南与肯尼亚设常设野外研究站，并经 JICA、日本AMED 与世卫组织在非洲、南美与亚洲广泛合作。

• As a WHO Collaborating Center for tropical and emerging viral diseases it serves as a national reference laboratory and carried out confirmatory diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in Japan.作为热带与新发病毒性疾病的世卫协作中心，它是国家级参考实验室，并在日本承担新冠确证检测。

• In response to the pandemic the institute led the International Infectious Disease Consortium against COVID-19, an emergency-funded collaboration to develop countermeasures against the novel coronavirus.面对疫情，该所主导抗击新冠的国际传染病联合体，这是一项紧急资助、旨在研发新型冠状病毒对策的合作。

• The Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, lodged inside the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is the world's longest-running centre for studying the health effects of the 1945 bombing of a city.设于生物医学研究科内的原子弹疾病研究所，是全球持续研究 1945 年城市原子弹轰炸健康效应时间最久的中心。

• Its doctoral training includes a Joint PhD Programme for Global Health run with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the institute enrols over a hundred graduate students.其博士培养含与伦敦卫生与热带医学院合办的全球卫生联合博士项目，该所在读研究生逾百名。

• Nagasaki belongs to the Japan Infectious Disease Research Consortium together with the Institute of Medical Science of the University of Tokyo, Osaka University and Hokkaido University.长崎与东京大学医科学研究所、大阪大学、北海道大学同属日本传染病研究联合会。

• Beyond its medical core the university spans the humanities, economics, engineering, environmental studies and the marine sciences, a breadth inherited from its six very different merged predecessors.除医学核心外，该校横跨人文、经济、工学、环境研究与海洋科学，这一广度承自其六所学科迥异的合并前身。

• Nagasaki was chosen under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Top Global University Project, Type A, funding it to build English-taught degree courses in global health and the environment.长崎入选文部科学省超级全球大学计划 A 型，获经费在环球健康与环境领域建设英语授课学位课程。

Campus

• The main Bunkyo Campus lies in the Bunkyo-machi quarter of central Nagasaki city, the seat of the university's headquarters and of most of its non-medical undergraduate faculties.主校区文京校区位于长崎市中心文京町一带，是该校本部与多数非医学本科学部所在。

• Because the university grew from six merged colleges with separate grounds, its schools are spread over three campuses, linked for students and staff by a regular shuttle bus service.因该校由六所各有地盘的专门学校合并而成，各部散落于三座校区，以定期穿梭巴士为学生与职员相连。

• The Sakamoto Campus holds the medical and dental schools and the great university hospital, all rebuilt after the utter destruction of the area in the atomic bombing of 1945.坂本校区设医学部、齿学部与庞大的大学医院，均在 1945 年原子弹轰炸彻底摧毁该地区后重建。

• The Katafuchi Campus, spared by the shoulder of Mount Kompira, houses the Faculty of Economics and the historic 1919 Keirin Hall, the oldest building group on the site.为金刚山山脊所屏蔽的片渊校区设经济学部与 1919 年建成的径联堂，是该地最古老的建筑群。

• Although the Bunkyo Campus was built on the former ground of the Mitsubishi Arms Factory Ohashi Plant, its wide terraced grounds are now given over to lecture halls, laboratories and open lawns.文京校区虽建在旧三菱兵器制作所大桥工场场地上，其宽阔的梯田式校园今已辟为讲堂、实验楼与开阔草坪。

• Nagasaki University Hospital, beside the Sakamoto medical quarter, is the teaching hospital for clinical training and also carries the special mission of caring for survivors of the atomic bombing.毗邻坂本医学区的长崎大学医院是临床实习的教学医院，亦承担照护原子弹爆炸幸存者的特殊使命。

• The Institute of Tropical Medicine operates overseas field research stations in Vietnam and Kenya, extending the university's working campus well beyond Japan into the tropical world.热带医学研究所在越南与肯尼亚设海外野外研究站，将该校的实践校区延伸至日本之外的热带世界。

• Standing only a few hundred metres from the hypocenter, the medical quarter and its atomic-bomb archives make the campus itself a place of peace education and remembrance.医学区距爆心仅数百米，其原子弹档案使校园本身成为和平教育与追思之地。

• The university's strongly international character is visible in the many researchers and graduate students drawn each year from Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America to its campuses.该校浓厚的国际色彩见于每年从其校区往来的众多来自东南亚、非洲与拉丁美洲的研究者与研究生。

• Three campuses within reach of Nagasaki's trams and bus lines place teaching, hospital and economics grounds all within the compact harbour city that the university serves.三座校区皆可抵长崎电车与公交线路，把教学、医院与经济学部用地都纳入该校所服务的紧凑港湾城市之中。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Nagasaki University is placed in the broad band 951-1000, level with the numerous institutions grouped together within that same range.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，长崎大学位列 951-1000 这一宽区间，与同区间众多并列院校齐平。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 Nagasaki stands in the band 1201-1400, a somewhat lower placement than its position in the QS band of the same year.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，长崎大学位列 1201-1400 区间，名次略低于其同年 QS 区间中的位置。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 Nagasaki is placed at 1153 in the world, a numbered rank rather than a shared band of institutions.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，长崎大学位列世界第 1153 名，为具体序号而非并列区间。

• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 Nagasaki falls in the band 801-900, its single 2026 main-list position being used here, older editions and subject tables being set aside.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，长崎大学位列 801-900 区间，此处只取其 2026 年主榜名次，旧版与学科榜一概不取。

• According to the OpenAlex bibliometric record the university has produced 58,427 scholarly works attracting 3,390,787 citations, the figures being read at the time the source data was compiled.据 OpenAlex 文献计量记录，该校累计学术成果 58,427 项、被引 3,390,787 次，数字为采集源数据时点的统计。

• Its hardest honour is the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to the alumnus Osamu Shimomura, who shared it with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein.其最硬的荣誉是颁予校友下村修的 2008 年诺贝尔化学奖，他与马丁·查尔菲、钱永健因发现并发展绿色荧光蛋白而共襄此奖。

• By subject standing Nagasaki ranks among the world's leading centres for training and research in tropical medicine, its Institute of Tropical Medicine being one of very few such institutes in Japan.以学科地位论，长崎跻身热带医学人才培养与研究的世界领先中心之列，其热带医学研究所是日本极少数的此类研究所之一。

• Nagasaki is a member of the Japan Infectious Disease Research Consortium and holds a WHO Collaborating Center designation, two honours marking its standing in national and global public health.长崎为日本传染病研究联合会成员并持有世卫协作中心认定，这两项荣誉标示其在国家与全球公共卫生中的地位。

• Among Japanese national universities Nagasaki is distinguished by the rare combination of medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, tropical health, economics and fisheries, with strong evaluations in the clinical and marine fields.在日本国立大学中，长崎以医学、齿学、药学、热带卫生、经济与水产的罕见组合著称，临床与海洋学科评价尤高。

• Selected under the Top Global University Project, Type A in 2014, Nagasaki received dedicated national funding to internationalise its degree programmes and to enlarge inbound and outbound student mobility.长崎于 2014 年入选超级全球大学计划 A 型，获国家专项经费以推动学位课程国际化并扩大出入境学生流动。

Student life

• Since April 2019 the entire campus grounds have been declared smoke-free, a rule that barred smokers from some employment posts and drew discrimination lawsuits that had not been settled at the time.自 2019 年 4 月起全校园区被宣布为无烟区，此项禁止吸烟者应聘部分岗位的规定引发多起当时尚未判决的歧视诉讼。

• The Graduate School of International Health Development and the Institute of Tropical Medicine admit many international students, drawn above all from the counterpart countries of Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America.国际保健发展研究科与热带医学研究所招收众多国际学生，主要来自东南亚、非洲与拉丁美洲的伙伴国家。

• Graduate researchers can undertake fieldwork at the institute's stations in Vietnam and Kenya, whose Kenyan work has notably inspired a popular song, a novel, a charity foundation and the film The Lion Standing in the Wind.研究生可赴该所越南与肯尼亚研究站做田野，其中肯尼亚的工作尤曾启发流行歌曲、小说、慈善基金及电影《风中的狮子》。

• A Joint PhD Programme for Global Health, run with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives selected doctoral students an international, two-institution training track.与伦敦卫生与热带医学院合办的全球卫生联合博士项目，为入选博士生提供跨两校的国际化培养路径。

• Students gain placements and funding through the networks the institute maintains with JICA, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Official Development Assistance and the WHO.学生可借助该所与 JICA、日本AMED、政府开发援助及世卫组织维持的网络获得实习岗位与资助。

• Because teaching is spread over three campuses, the regular university shuttle bus is the everyday means of travel for students moving between Bunkyo, Sakamoto and Katafuchi each day.因教学散布于三校区，每日往返文京、坂本与片渊的学生，日常依赖校方定期穿梭巴士通行。

• The university hospital at Sakamoto anchors hands-on clinical training for medical, dental and pharmaceutical students, who rotate through its wards from their earliest clinical years.坂本的大学医院是医学、齿学与药学学生实习临床训练的核心，他们自最早见习年起便轮转于其病房。

• Through an extensive capacity-strengthening programme the institute sends and hosts graduate trainees from counterpart countries, offering them applied tropical-medicine training both abroad and in Nagasaki.借助大规模的能力建设计划，该所派遣并接收伙伴国的研究生学员，为其提供海外与长崎本地的应用热带医学训练。

• Despite the controversy over its smoke-free rule, the university has foregrounded public health as a core identity, reflected in student societies devoted to global and tropical health.尽管无烟规定引发争议，该校仍以公共卫生为核心理念，这体现在致力于全球与热带健康的学生社团之中。

Notable people

• The organic chemist and marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, a Nagasaki alumnus, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein.有机化学家兼海洋生物学家下村修为长崎校友，因发现并发展绿色荧光蛋白而获 2008 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Two American chemists, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Y. Tsien, shared that same 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Nagasaki alumnus Osamu Shimomura.美国化学家哥伦比亚大学的马丁·查尔菲与钱永健，与长崎校友下村修共获同一年 2008 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• The physician Takashi Nagai specialised in radiology, was himself an atomic-bomb victim, and became a noted writer and teacher at Nagasaki's rebuilt medical school.医生永井隆专攻放射学，本身即是原子弹受害者，后在长崎重建的医科大学任知名作家与教师。

• The microbiologist Windell Rivera is listed among the university's noted alumni in the English-language account of the institution's graduates.微生物学家温德尔·里维拉在该校英文校友记述中被列为著名校友之一。

• Madoka Kitamura, president and representative director of the sanitary-ware maker Toto Ltd., is counted among the figures from Nagasaki who rose in Japanese business.卫浴制造商东陶公司的总裁兼代表取缔役北村圆，被列为从长崎崛起的日本工商界人物之一。

• The Dutch physician J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort, first professor of the 1857 Medical Training Institute, is rightly regarded as the founding teacher of Nagasaki's entire medical lineage.荷兰医生 J. L. C. 彭佩·范·梅尔德沃特作为 1857 年医学传习所的首任教授，理当被视为长崎整个医学一脉的奠基教师。

• The Tokugawa Shogunate's Nagasaki office established the 1857 institute and its 1861 hospital, the institutional founders standing behind today's School of Medicine and university hospital.德川幕府长崎办事处创设 1857 年传习所及其 1861 年医院，是今日医学部与大学医院背后的机构奠基者。

• The Mitsubishi Arms Factory, whose Ohashi Plant ground became the postwar Bunkyo Campus, is an institutional origin of the modern main campus, repurposed from wartime arms-making to peaceful learning.其大桥工场旧址变为战后文京校区的三菱兵器制作所，是今主校区的机构渊源，由战时军火制造改作和平求学之用。

• The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the World Health Organization fund and direct much of the institute's research programme in which Nagasaki graduate students take part.日本AMED 与世界卫生组织资助并主导该所众多研究项目，长崎研究生得以参与其中。

• The National School Establishment Law of 1949 was the statute that created Nagasaki University, the legal founder of the merged institution and of its three-campus postwar structure.1949 年学校教育法是长崎大学赖以创立的法规，即这所合并大学及其战后三校区架构在法律上的奠基者。