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Tokyo Denki University (TDU) was founded in 1907 by two young engineers who played active roles in the industrial world, Seiichi Hirota and Shinkichi Ogimoto, to concretize their sublime idea, "Promoting engineering education is indeed the foundation for the development of a nation." Through its reliable and diligent academic culture, TDU has been fostering students for more than a century with the mission, "Development of Human Resources Who Contribute to Society by Technology." TDU also provided quality instruction based on the two educational maxims: "Respect for Practical Study" and "Students First." TDU continues to cultivate excellent human resources to meet society…
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Tokyo College of Music celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2007. The oldest private music institute in Japan, TCM, has contributed significantly to the development of Western classical music at home. It created the first symphonic orchestra in Japan, which was performed on Pacific Ocean steamers from 1912 to 1929. Over the years, Tokyo College of Music has taken great strides in strengthening its faculty and staff and expanding the facilities of the school. Now the College boasts a highly qualified and distinguished faculty of more than 440 with the entire student body, under the umbrella of Tokyo College of Music, of over 2000 students. This includes 1,50…
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"Let our dreams grow wings" is the title of our school song. The first verse reads: "With a spirit toward the future, we will learn of the immortal soul. Radiating individuals' personalities, we will try to gain deeper wisdom together with friends for tomorrow. Having the passions of youth in our hands, we will grow the wings of dreams, the wings of dreams." This song was written to represent Tokyo City University when the university group was formed in April 2009. The song was created to embrace the vision and spirit of the university. The university evolves as a place where every student, instructor, and graduate cherishes and realizes their ambitions. We are now ad…
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Tokyo Christian Institute is founded on the Biblical, historical and orthodox rule of faith, which was consistently revealed in both the Old and the New Testaments, expressed in the Ancient Church's Ecumenical Creeds, and proclaimed in the Reformation. In response to various challenges, including those stemming from certain aspects of the Enlightenment and liberal theology, contemporary Evangelical faith has endeavored to defend this historic faith and practice the piety of belief. The articles which are the basis of this Evangelical faith, are the following: The Bible, which consists of 66 books of the New and Old Testaments, was written by each writer under the …
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Tokushima University was established as a national university in 1949. It consists of two campuses. Our University is open to the whole world, and we are doing our best to create a prosperous and peaceful society for the future. Tokushima University’s aims include the pursuit of truth and knowledge creation in a spirit of independence. In doing so, the University will be able to continue our outstanding academic and cultural tradition. Our University is open to the whole world, and we will do our best to create an enriched and peaceful society for the future. Tokushima University will search for truth, create knowledge, and inherit and develop eminent sciences and cul…
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In 1895, the 28th year of the Meiji period, Sai Murasaki founded a private vocational institution. Tokushima Bunri University and its affiliated Junior College consist of 9 faculties and 26 departments, making it one of the largest post-secondary institutions in Western Japan. The University has two campuses: Tokushima Campus in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, and Kagawa Campus in Sanuki City, located east of Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. The undergraduate program of the Tokushima Campus consists of six-year courses in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and four-year courses in the Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Health and Welfare, Policy Studies, and M…
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Incorporated Educational Institution Tokiwa University, a private institution focusing on open learning, recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. Looking ahead to its next century of operation, it continues to maintain focus on its mission to develop individuals who think and act from a global perspective. Stressing self-reliance and providing ample learning opportunities, Tokiwa University cultivates such talented people to grow to become contributing members of society. In this, Tokiwa University continues to uphold its purpose and aim to be an institution of higher education open to the world. Suppose the first universities in medieval Europe were b…
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Tokai University is a private university established by Dr. Shigeyoshi Matsumae in1942. "Tokai" of "Tokai University" refers to the sea to the east of Asia, namely the Pacific Ocean, and symbolizes the desire to foster a rich spirit and broad perspectives. Tokai University consists of 8 campuses in Sapporo, Takanawa, Yoyogi, Shonan, Isehara, Shimizu, Kumamoto, and Aso, comprised of 19 schools and colleges made up of 75 departments, majors, and programs. Its graduate schools and professional graduate schools offer roughly 50 programs. The total student population is approximately 30,000. Tokai University's educational guidelines ground these objectives by offering a soun…
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Today, the Shonai area in the Tohoku region's top west corner is brimming with a mood of creativity and enterprise. This new spirit has given rise to a new university. The twentieth century was the era that focused on money and material goods and capital and the market rule, but the twenty-first century is the era of people and mind/heart that we call "Koeki." This will be a world in which children will live as they should, and people as humanely as they possibly can. In our university, students will broaden their minds and deepen their specialist knowledge through our education to respond to these changes in social ethnography and contribute to the harmonious development…
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In 1911, Vice Minister of Education Masataro Sawayanagi moved to Sendai to become Tohoku University's first president. Sawayanagi firmly believed that academic research should be integrated with education. He also believed that a university should not discriminate based on class or gender. Following this principle, Tohoku University accepted graduates from technical and higher regular schools. Despite opposition from the government at that time, it became Japan's first university to admit female students in 1913. The ancient castle grounds of Sendai's famous feudal warlord Masamune Date, are home to the majority of Tohoku University's facilities. The primeval forest…
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Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University was founded in 1939 as the Tohoku School of Pharmacy, the only pharmaceutical education institution in the Tohoku and Hokkaido area. Ever since, our university has consistently offered educational programs that enable pharmacy graduates to contribute to society successfully. The Department of Pharmaceutical Life Sciences aims to train students to acquire a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences and medicine to make a valuable contribution to society, and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences nurtures competent pharmacists with a higher level of professional skills. Department of Medicine aims to cultivate doctors t…
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Tohoku Institute of Technology is a place where people of various personalities and talents can gather, develop their possibilities and potentials, and prepare themselves to move on to the next stage in their lives. At our university, the word ‘engineering’ is used to embrace natural science while also incorporating humanities and social science. Our institute, Tohoku Institute of Technology, is one of the universities leading engineering education in Japan. The excellent professors and laboratories found at TohTech will enable you to examine and design new techniques and technologies, aiming to create products and help cultivate communities to improve the quality of…
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Tohoku Gakuin was founded in 1886 as Sendai Theological Seminary by Masayoshi Oshikawa and William E. Hoy, a missionary. Today, 132 years later, based on Christian ideals and ensuring academic freedom, Tohoku Gakuin University (TGU) aims to provide its students with an environment that allows them to pursue the truth and develop to their full potential. The world today is changing dramatically socially, politically, economically, and in other areas as well. Our mission is to send forth graduates who have a global perspective, individuals who are responsible and can make decisions and act upon them. To this end, TGU is committed to nurturing each student's character w…
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TFU has four faculties, including nine departments, in Welfare, Healthcare, Education, and Management. Our mission as a university is to inquire deeply into the truth, developing widespread knowledge and specialized skills in our fields, and building meaningful relationships, with the ultimate aim of creating paths to well-being (happiness) for all humanity. Since its establishment, our university has been based on Buddhist thought, with "integration of learning and practice" at our philosophy's heart. Our goal is to help establish a proper welfare society by putting philosophy into practice and always striving to meet the times' demands. University education involves…
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Toho University has been organizing seminars with partner universities since 1993. The 7th Joint Seminar on Biomedical Sciences, involving partners the Chiang Mai University of Thailand, Prince of the Songkla University of Thailand, Kunming Medical University of China, was held in October 2011. Toho University offers courses, such as intensive English courses and overseas visits, to encourage students to participate in international activities early on in their studies. In a gratifying response to these initiatives reaching out to the world, the number of overseas students who wish to study at Toho University is rising. Recently, Japanese universities and colleges have …
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Tokushima University was established as a national university in 1949. It consists of two campuses. Our University is open to the whole world, and we are doing our best to create a prosperous and peaceful society for the future. Tokushima University’s aims include the pursuit of truth and knowledge creation in a spirit of independence. In doing so, the University will be able to continue our outstanding academic and cultural tradition. Our University is open to the whole world, and we will do our best to create an enriched and peaceful society for the future. Tokushima University has Josanjima Campus and Kuramoto Campus. On Josanjima campus, there are the Faculties of…
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This is the slogan of our university. The phrase "Lake Biwa is our campus" symbolizes our university's firm commitment and Shiga Prefecture people toward caring for the environment of Lake Biwa and its surroundings. The phrase "humanity is our text" represents our educational emphasis on the human being. Those phrases also reflect the characteristics of Shiga Prefecture. Lake Biwa is the largest lake in Japan, providing water for 15 million people in Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe in the Kinki region. To stop further environmental deterioration, the government, factories, and citizens in the prefecture have joined forces and made various efforts. As a result, Shiga Prefecture h…
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The University of Kitakyushu, established by Kitakyushu City, is one of the nations leading public universities. As a model environmental city in Japan, Kitakyushu City vigorously promotes various environmental measures and environmental industries' development while upgrading the airport, port, and other urban infrastructure necessary for future development. The University of Kitakyushu has student exchange agreements with numerous overseas universities in the U.S., U.K., Australia, China, and South Korea. In 2008, an overseas study program was initiated, through which 55 students a year are dispatched to Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington in the U.S. The…
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The University's origins go back to 1918 when Wireless Association founded the Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications to train wireless communications engineers. In 1949, under the new system of education established by the National School Establishment Act, the institute was transformed into the University of Electro-Communications. This name is the only name of a national university with an undergraduate department that does not include its location. The lack of a location in the name results from the founders' aspiration to create a university that would be open to all of Japan. Because of the University's founding and its name, one might think that the Univ…
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The Nippon Dental University is the only dental university that has two schools of dentistry. Comprising two campuses, one in Tokyo and the other in Niigata, it has two schools of dentistry, three affiliated hospitals, two junior colleges, and a museum. At present, there are about 2,000 students, 1,000 teaching staff, and over 19,800 graduates. The Nippon Dental University, Japan's first dental university, was founded by Ichigoro Nakahara in 1907 under the Japanese Dental Law, which introduced regulations for the accreditation of both public and private dental schools. Dentistry was in its infancy at the time, and the purpose of establishing this school was "to foster e…
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The Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing sincerely explores nursing science, both in theorizing and practice, in a much broader context of "humanity." All Red Cross activities are based on this principle, which, as you all know it, amounts to the way human beings should be. Despite its apparent familiarity, however, it is not always easy to be humanitarian. While pursuing nursing inquiry, we must always face all the difficulties that might intrinsically accompany this academic enterprise. Based on the Red Cross principles, we aim to nurture human resources possessing the skills necessary to carry out nursing and conduct research into nursing practice, develop strong…
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The International University of Kagoshima was founded in 1932 by Keisuke Tsumagari as the first higher education institution for commerce and economics in Kagoshima. IUK's motto is "Student First," which means we put the student first. Students are our number one priority. We want to prioritize what we do for incoming students entering IUK, students whose eyes are shining and hearts are full of anticipation. For over 80 years, keen and eager students have acquired an international way of thinking and contributing to the regional community at The International University of Kagoshima (IUK). Originally named Kagoshima Commerce College, IUK was founded in 1932. It was t…
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SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) is a graduate university with no undergraduate programs that consists of departments housed in affiliated Inter-University Research Institutes and the School of Advanced Sciences attached directly to SOKENDAI. The Inter-University Research Institutes are research centers for joint use by universities throughout Japan in their various research fields. These institutes serve as centers of advanced research in their respective research fields and as nodes of scholarly communication that support international joint research. The School of Advanced Sciences, located in Hayama and has no such parent institute, conducts adv…
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Kizuna—bonds connecting people and to society, and the present to the future. We are striving to be a university that is open to the community, contributing to society. Since its foundation in 1964, Tezukayama University has poured its efforts into education that respects students' individuality and helps them flourish. The founding spirit of the University has been handed down to today. The University provides an outstanding education in six faculties and nine departments, supported by the following themes: excellence in education, comprehensive academic and non-academic support for students, openness to both the local and international communities, and an abundance of u…
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Founded in 1925, Tenri University now boasts over 30,000 alumni who have benefited from its educational goals of enhancing each student's potential, fostering their global awareness, and instilling in each individual the desire to contribute to the overall improvement of the human condition. Based on the Tenrikyo religion's humanistic teachings, promoting the world of the "Joyous Life" for all humankind, the University's long history of applying this educational philosophy, in a manner suited to each generation's needs, is the foundation of its proud tradition. Since being reorganized from a language school into a university in 1949, Tenri University has developed some …
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