Nanzan University

Nanzan University is a private, coeducational college situated in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The primary grounds is in the Shōwa Ward of Nagoya City, with another in Seto City and an as of late settled satellite grounds close to Nagoya's Takaoka Station on the metro Sakura-dōri Line. It is thought to be a standout amongst the most prestigious private colleges in Central Japan.

Nanzan is named after the forested mountains close Goken'ya-chō (五軒家町?), known as Minamiyama (南山?), which actually signifies "southern mountain". The on perusing for "南山" is Nanzan. Additionally, in Chinese verse "南山" alludes to Mount Lushan until the Tang Dynasty and Mount Zhong Nan from that point. Strikingly, the word shows up in the traditional verse gathering Shi Jing and the works of acclaimed artist Li Bai. Along these lines, the decision of name is a festival of life span, diligence, and success for both the school and its alumni.

Divine Word Missionary Josef Reiners established Nanzan Junior High School in 1932. Nanzan Foreign Language School was added to the Nanzan framework in 1946 and in the long run renamed Nanzan University in 1949. In 1995, Nagoya Seirei Junior College was subsumed by Nanzan when the two schools' associations merged. In 2008, Nanzan arrangements to open a grade school, authoritatively named Nanzan University Affiliated Elementary School

In 1961, Czech engineer Antonin Raymond was authorized to plan most structures on the Nagoya grounds. It was one of the biggest activities that he would embrace. The grounds was orientated on a north–south hub crosswise over moving slopes and the eight structures were orchestrated to suit the typography and fit with the scene. In-situ cement is utilized all through the plan and every building has its own solid shape, some with pilotis, others with shells.

Situated toward the east of the grounds is the Divine Word Seminary Chapel, built in 1962. This is a building that adventures the plastic limit of cement, with two converging shells framing a chime tower. These are punctured with vertical spaces which permit light to emanate along the bended inside dividers.

Nanzan Junior College (南山短期大学 Nanzan Tanki Daigaku?) opened in 1968 as a ladies' lesser school partnered with the University. In 2011 the lesser school grounds was shut and rearranged as an office on Nanzan University's Nagoya grounds offering courses in English dialect.
Nanzan University is a piece of Nanzan Gakuen (南山学園 Nanzan gakuen?), an instructive complex of three secondary schools, a ladies' lesser school, and the college itself. Among coeducational colleges, Nanzan is the main Catholic evangelist school in the Chūbu locale.

Nanzan has a solid universal concentrate, effectively seeking after outside trade understudies. Western understudies essentially go to the Nagoya grounds, while Asian understudies go to the Seto grounds.

For a long time, Nanzan has held a yearly rivalry with its Catholic sister schools Sophia University (上智大学 Jōchi daigaku?) and Sapientia University (英知大学 Eichi daigaku?), essentially concentrating on games. Joining the initial two syllables in Japanese of the individual schools, the Nanzan-Sophia occasion is known as the Jōnan-sen (上南戦?), while the Sapientia-Nanzan occasion is known as the Einan-sen (英南戦?).

The humanities office offers minister instructional classes through its Christian studies educational programs.