Kyoto University will not recruit dormitory students from the fall of 2015, and will leave the dormitory from the viewpoint of lacking earthquake resistance and giving top priority to ensuring the safety of dormitory students for Yoshida Residence *, which is considered to be the oldest student autonomous dormitory in Japan. We have announced that we have notified the Yoshida Dormitory Residents' Association on July 2, 2015, asking for two points not to provide vacancy assistance.
However, the notification from the university was not enforceable, and the repulsive dormitory students rushed to the university headquarters, so the university decided to hold an extraordinary board meeting to discuss the response.In addition, the university has been considering rebuilding the Yoshida dormitory for some time, but in May 2015, the Kinki branch of the Japan Institute of Architecture evaluated the historical value of the Yoshida dormitory and requested preservation and utilization. No conclusions have been reached as to what to do with Yoshida Residence in the future.
* Yoshida Dormitory was built in 1913 (Taisho 2) on the Kyoto University campus and is a student self-government dormitory over 100 years old.It is a two-story wooden structure designed by Harubei Yamamoto and Kyozo Nagase, who were engineers at Kyoto Imperial University, and has a capacity of about 150 people.The dormitory fee is about 400 yen per month, including the boarding fee of 2500 yen and utilities.
Source:[Kyoto University] Notification to Yoshida Residence Neighborhood Association