thumb|Showa Medical University is a private comprehensive medical university in Japan with campuses in Tokyo, Yamanashi and Kanagawa Prefectures. It currently has four schools: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing and rehabilitation sciences. What was to become today's Showa University was founded in 1928 as ; it was renamed in 1946 before becoming Showa University in 1964 when the School of Pharmacy was established.
