The contribution it makes increase each year. In August 2018, Toyota Tsusho began a partnership with Microsoft to create fish farming tools using the Microsoft Azure application suite for IoT technologies related to water management. Developed by researchers from Kindai University, the water pump mechanisms use artificial intelligence to count the number of fish on a conveyor belt, analyze the number of fish, and deduce the effectiveness of water flow from the data the fish provide. The specific computer programs used in the process fall under the Azure Machine Learning and the Azure IoT Hub platforms. Organization In addition to its 11 schools, Kindai University runs graduate schools, a distance learning division, four junior colleges, a technical college, a nursing school, and other schools from kindergarten to high school. These facilities cover the whole of western Japan. International work From its earliest days, Kindai University has been committed to promoting international understanding through active exchanges with overseas universities. There are two main channels for this interchange. First, there are programs for exchanging personnel, both staff and students, in experience and joint research projects. Second, the university exchanges scientific documents and shares information with partner institutions. Both of these channels have helped students and staff to develop perspectives that are truly international in nature. Some of the institutions Kindai University works with are Chulalongkorn University, Chiang Mai University, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing Forestry University, Dalian University of Technology, Great Wall Hospital, Xi'An University of Technology, Sofia Medical University, University of Illinois, University of California, Davis, University of Calgary, University of Nottingham, University of Sussex, and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Scholarly exchange In 1987, Kindai University welcomed the opportunity for the exchange of research with Sofia Medical University and, in 1988, actively entered into similar agreements with Thailand's Chulalongkorn and Chiang Mai universities. The joint research with Chiang Mai University has included ways to eliminate poppy growing and continues today. Meanwhile, the schools of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Agriculture, and Medicine have received samples of herbs native to Thailand, all of which are being investigated to determine their effects and analyzed to determine their active agents. To help with research into breeding kelp bass and other saltwater fish, experts from Kindai University have been dispatched to Chulalongkorn University. There are academic collaboration workshops between the department of architecture, school of engineering, and faculty of architecture and planning with Thammasat University, Thailand. Overseas students