# Hijiyama University

> higher education institution in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

**Wikidata**: [Q5760279](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5760279)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijiyama_University)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/hijiyama-university

## Summary
Hijiyama University is a university (higher education institution) located in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1939 and maintains an official website at http://www.hijiyama-u.ac.jp/.

## Key Facts
- Instance type: university (higher education institution).
- Location: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan; coordinates 34.42861111° N, 132.47527778° E.
- Year of establishment (inception): 1939.
- Official website: http://www.hijiyama-u.ac.jp/.
- Member of the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (membership recorded 2024-05-01).
- International and library identifiers include ISNI 0000000108244315, VIAF 160704424, ROR 00f5esq17, Ringgold ID 12795, and World Higher Education Database ID IAU-007326.
- National/administrative identifiers: MEXT school code F134310109928; identification code for Japanese universities and colleges 2401 (Japanese name qualifier: 比治山大学).
- Alternate name / alias: 比治山大學.
- Image available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hijiyama_University_20140906.JPG.

## FAQs
### Q: What and where is Hijiyama University?
A: Hijiyama University is a university located in Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Its geographic coordinates are 34.42861111° N, 132.47527778° E.

### Q: When was Hijiyama University founded?
A: The institution's inception year is recorded as 1939.

### Q: How can I find official information about Hijiyama University online?
A: The university's official website is http://www.hijiyama-u.ac.jp/. Additional institutional identifiers include ISNI, ROR, VIAF, and Ringgold entries.

## Why It Matters
Hijiyama University is a long-established higher education institution in Hiroshima Prefecture, with an inception date of 1939. Its presence contributes to the region’s higher-education landscape and institutional continuity over decades. The university’s membership in the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (recorded 2024-05-01) indicates engagement with national efforts for open access to research outputs and repositories. Multiple international and library identifiers (ISNI, VIAF, ROR, Ringgold, IAU ID, Library of Congress authority number) show that the institution is recognized across bibliographic, scholarly, and higher-education data systems. These identifiers enable consistent discovery, cataloguing, and linking of the university’s outputs and records in global databases. Official codes such as the MEXT school code and the Japanese identification code provide authoritative administrative references for national accreditation and data systems. Together, these attributes make Hijiyama University a persistent, identifiable entity in both regional education and international academic metadata ecosystems.

## Notable For
- Established in 1939, giving it a multi-decade institutional history in Hiroshima Prefecture.
- Membership in the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (recorded 2024-05-01).
- Presence in multiple international authority and metadata systems: ISNI, VIAF, ROR, Ringgold, World Higher Education Database (IAU-007326), and Library of Congress authority.
- Official national identifiers and codes: MEXT school code F134310109928 and Japanese identification code 2401 (比治山大学).

## Body

### Overview
- Name: Hijiyama University.
- Instance: university (higher education institution).
- Alias: 比治山大學.
- Wikipedia title and sitelinks: "Hijiyama University" with sitelink_count 3; available in languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (zh).

### Location & Coordinates
- Located in: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
- Coordinates: latitude 34.42861111, longitude 132.47527778.
- GRID identifier: grid.443686.b.

### History & Establishment
- Inception year: 1939 (recorded as the institution’s founding/inception).

### Identifiers & Codes
- ISNI: 0000000108244315.
- VIAF ID: 160704424.
- ROR ID: 00f5esq17.
- Ringgold ID: 12795 (reference date 2019-05-29).
- World Higher Education Database ID: IAU-007326.
- Library of Congress Authority ID: n2010081174.
- Freebase ID: /m/04154j1.
- KISTI ID: K000201489.
- snarc_id: Christoph Heinrich Kniep (as provided in the structured data).
- Microsoft Academic ID (service discontinued): 14000316 (reference date 2019-01-19).
- GRID: grid.443686.b.

### National / Administrative Codes
- MEXT school code: F134310109928.
- Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges: 2401 (qualifier: 比治山大学). Source references include P6857 entries dated 2020-03-23 and 2004-02-20.

### Memberships & Affiliations
- Member of: Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (membership reference dated 2024-05-01; link: https://jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp/page/40).

### Online Presence & Media
- Official website: http://www.hijiyama-u.ac.jp/.
- Public image file: Hijiyama_University_20140906.JPG available on Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hijiyama_University_20140906.JPG.

### Classification & Metadata
- Wikidata description: higher education institution in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
- Sitelink_count: 3.
- Wikipedia languages listed: en, ja, zh.

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## References

1. [Source](https://jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp/page/40)
2. GRID Release 2016-05-31
3. Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions
4. Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
5. [2004](http://kikakurui.com/x0/X0408-2004-01.html)