Japan Coast Guard Academy

The Japan Coast Guard Academy (海上保安大学校, Kaijō Ho'an Daigakkō) is a university-level academy established within the Japan Coast Guard for the purpose of training students to become officers. It is located in Kure, Hiroshima prefecture.

Students have the status of public employees. They do not pay tuition; moreover, they receive a salary (in 2003, the amount was 138 000 yen per month).

Technically it cannot award degrees of its own to its graduates because it is not in jurisdiction of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). A MEXT affiliate, the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation does instead.

See also

• Military academy
• Japan Coast Guard School (海上保安学校, Kaijō Ho'an Gakkō)

External links

• Japan Coast Guard. "Official website". http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/e/index_e.htm. Retrieved May 14, 2006. 
• Japan Coast Guard Academy. "Official website". Archived from the original on April 24, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060424045932/http://www.jcga.ac.jp/wwwe/index.html. Retrieved May 14, 2006. 
• UMIZARU (The Sea Monkey) is a 2004 Japanese film related to the JCG. "Official website". http://www.umizaru.jp/umizaru1/index.html. Retrieved May 14, 2006.