After World War II, the Ministry of Education newly planned the construction of a national university to the region in which the empire university had not set it up. This plan assumed the national universities to be a highest educational institution, and aimed at the educational base formation in the location and the system in various places. The attracting movement of national universities by the activity group was done in the major city in the Chugoku region and the Hokuriku region that had become a candidate site. In the national universities attracting movement, the age immediately after end of the war, the feasibility of university establishment and the public opinion are attached to importance in the movement.
