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

[3] The university dates its foundation to the establishment of Osaka Technical College (大阪専門学校, Ōsaka semmon gakkō) in 1925.

After the war, when food was in short supply, the university opened its Marine Research Center in 1948 in Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture.

Other pioneering projects include, along with the opening of the Atomic Energy Research Institute, establishing the first private nuclear reactor facilities in 1960.

In 1989, adding to a university that had concentrated on science and technology, the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies was opened.

It attracted public interest as the first center in Japan to concentrate on this new field concerning superior functions possessed by organisms.

The joint research with Chiang Mai University has included ways to eliminate poppy growing and continues today.

Committed to making these words a reality, in 1953 the university accepted 15 scholarship students from Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, former Burma, and India.

In 1991, the International Student Center was established to offer detailed advice about studies and daily life in Japan.