The Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is a collaborative veterinary educational Program that was established by Yamaguchi University and Kagoshima University under the system defined in the Ordinance on the Partial Revision of Standards for the Establishment of Universities (MEXT Ordinance No. 35, 2008). The Faculty, which was the first of its kind in Japan, builds on the strengths of the two universities to provide equal educational and research opportunities to the students of both institutions.
Veterinary education at Yamaguchi University dates bac to January 1944, when the Department of Veterinary Science was established at the Yamaguchi Higher School of Veterinary Medicine, which became the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture at Yamaguchi University in 1949. Since that time, the veterinary program at Yamaguchi University has undergone several transformations: from a four-year program to a six-year program in April 1984; and finally to the Joint Faculty system in April 2012 as the eighth faculty at Yamaguchi University. The Faculty offers inter-university curricula with Yamaguchi University, which meets the international standard for veterinary medicine. The faculty's missions are to train experts with rich humanity and morality to follow codes of conduct and contribute to global society.
| January | 1944: | Yamaguchi Higher School of Veterinary Medicine is established. |
| March | 1945: | Yamaguchi College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal husbandry is established. |
| May | 1949: | The College is reestablished as the Faculty of Agriculture of Yamaguchi University nder the National School Establishement Act (Act No.150, 1949). |
| July | 1953: | The Veterinary Hospital opens. |
| April | 1984: | The veterinary education program is changed from a four-year to a six-year course by law. |
| April | 1990: | United Graduate School of Veterinary Science is established. |
| January | 2007: | The Veterinary Hospital changes its name to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. |
| April | 2012: | The Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is established. |
| April | 2018: | The Joint Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine is established. |