Nagoya City University (名古屋市立大学, Nagoya shiritsu daigaku), abbreviated to Meishidai (名市大), is one of the public universities in Japan. The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City. Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city. Nagoya City University (NCU) was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: Nagoya City Women's Medical College (名古屋女子医科大学) and Nagoya Pharmaceutical University (名古屋薬科大学). So NCU originally had two faculties: Medical School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows: Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU: NCWMC was founded in 1943, during World War II, to meet the growning need of doctors (the college's original name in Japanese was Nagoya shiritsu joshi kōtō igaku senmon gakkō (名古屋市立女子高等医学専門学校), which was renamed Nagoya shiritsu joshi igaku senmon gakkō (名古屋市立女子医学専門学校) in 1944.). In 1947, after the war, the college became a university (daigaku) under Japan's older education systems. In 1950 NCWMC was merged into NCU and became Medical School (a coeducational school).