Kindai University

Kindai University (近畿大学 Kinki Daigaku) is a private non-sectarian and coeducational university based in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan with campuses in five other locations: Nara, Nara; Osakasayama, Osaka; Uchita, Wakayama; Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima; and Iizuka, Fukuoka.

The English name of the university had been Kinki University since its establishment in 1949 to refer to "the surrounding area of the capital city (Kyoto)". On May 20, 2014, the university announced that its English name would officially change to Kindai (近大; a portmanteau of the first symbols of Kinki & Daigaku), to avoid the implications of the word "kinky," as the university is planning to globalize with the establishment of a new Foreign Language school. The name change took effect on April 1, 2016.