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Daito Bunka University, established in 1923, is a historic institution focusing on research on Asian cultures. Since its birth, more than 100,000 graduates have been making an impact across the world. Cooperating with over 100 sister universities, mainly in Asia but not excluding other regions of the world, Daito Bunka University sends more than 400 students a year abroad to study while receiving many international students every year. In order to encourage our students to exert themselves to solve a variety of problems in our modern society while sustaining their interest in history, society, and cultures in the world, contributing to the local and global community out of deep sympathy for cross-cultural understanding, and appreciation of the Japanese culture, and achieving a rich sense of humanity and erudition, Daito Bunka University offers a right place for learning. By providing education and research on Eastern cultures, particularly Chinese studies, Daito Bunka University aims at contributing to the promotion of this field, ensuring the establishment of moral principles based on Confucianism, absorbing elements of Western culture while maintaining its foundations in Eastern culture, and achieving a fusion of Eastern and Western approaches to create a new, open culture that is open to the international community. By its aims, Daito Bunka University conducts research and provides education in various disciplines related to the world's cultures, with a particular focus on Eastern culture. The university also strives to promote a greater understanding of those cultures and works to shape students of character who respect Eastern cultures' unique aspects and appreciate the region's traditional arts and virtues. At the same time, the university strives to nurture promising students who have an international worldview to contribute to the development of global culture and the realization of human happiness. View full university

Bunka Gakuen University and the Junior College were established in 1950 as Bunka Women's Junior College. Along with more than half a century of history and tradition, we have cultivated a unique educational philosophy as pioneers in the study of fashion and lifestyle/creative fields. The field of learning was further expanded in 1991 when the Department of Intercultural Studies and the Department of English Language and Literature were established in the Faculty of Literature and the 2000 establishment of the Department of Health Psychology in the same Faculty. In the same year, the Faculty of Home Economics was divided into the Faculty of Fashion Science and the Faculty of Art and Design. At present, together with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Junior College, the University leads Japan's research and development in the fields of fashion, art and design, and living environments, as well as cultivating human resources capable of responding to the challenges of society's ongoing globalization. As a comprehensive educational institution with the establishment of its Graduate Schools and Junior College and an affiliated high school, junior high school, and kindergarten, Bunka Gakuen University has established its education and research system—the subject of increasingly great expectations from the community in recent years. With the institution's name change to Bunka Gakuen University and Bunka Gakuen University Junior College in 2011 and the start of coeducation in all undergraduate departments in 2012, and Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences was relocated from Kodaira campus to the campus in Shinjuku New Urban City, we have taken some significant steps toward the future. Since the foundation of Bunka Gakuen University and Junior College, we have inherited the founding motto "Creating New Beauty and Culture" and guarded its meaning to this day. Our education began with fashion-related studies and is based on the basic principle of pursuing "New Beauty" that leads the times in every specialized field, while creating the next-generation "Culture" through the curriculum and research activities we offer, which consist today of the three faculties: Faculty of Fashion Science, Faculty of Art and Design, and Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as the Junior College (Department of Fashion). In our contemporary globalized society, most countries practice coeducation in design education and fashion education. To further promote international exchange among universities, it is essential to keep cultivating a diverse range of outstanding human resources with aspirations in this field, regardless of their gender. Coeducation began based on this philosophy, and we sent out our first male graduates into society in the spring of 2016. The first graduates have also graduated from the Program in Global Management in Fashion, established in 2014. This made transportation more convenient and gathered all faculties to a campus adjacent to sources of various information, making it possible to carry out innovation more specifically focused on society and culture, in collaboration between the three Faculties and the Junior College. The Shinjuku New Urban Center Campus are Bunka Fashion Graduate University, Bunka Fashion College, and the Bunka Institute of Language. Combined with Bunka Gakuen University, over 1,300 international students are learning together with Japanese students regularly. The student life at Bunka Gakuen is that students of these four schools provide each other with mutual stimulation and learn mutually, and engage in various creative activities in that context. View full university

The biggest problems that Japan's fashion business has faced are that designers do not have enough understanding of business management, while business managers lack an adequate understanding of design. When one considers fashion as a global business, multiple perspectives in management, finance, production control, and other areas are required, in addition to originality in designs and superb technical skills. To nurture new leaders for the next generation of the fashion industry, BFGU was established in 2006 by Educational Foundation Bunka Gakuen, a leading institution of fashion education in Japan, based on its ninety-year track record and expertise. By combining theory and practice, we will be nurturing "new creators," helping them establish their brands or business models on the global fashion business scene. As Japan's only graduate university that aims to nurture fashion professionals, the BFGU offers unique and excellent features. First, it integrates fashion creation with fashion management to learn the practical skills required to manage creative and design skills. With the unprecedented combination of these two divisions, the graduate school implements high-level education to foster professionals' growth. Second, the graduate students can make extensive use of the world-leading premises and facilities that Educational Foundation Bunka Gakuen has developed and accumulated over the years. Third, the graduate university organizes various industry-academia collaborative projects to offer students opportunities to gain practical business experience. We hope you will display your abilities in this well-developed educational and research environment. Message from the President BFGU came into existence by accumulating the Bunka Gakuen Educational Foundation's expertise and achievements, which has had a leading role in fashion education in Japan for over ninety years. Bunka Gakuen has produced new leaders who hold two perspectives, namely creation and management. Since its foundation in 1923, Bunka Gakuen has created a variety of collaborative activities with various cities worldwide through fashion, joint research with industries, publications, cultural and research activities in connection with fashion. At the same time, Bunka has been developing advanced fashion education and forming many prominent designers. BFGU was established from this historical background as the first graduate fashion university in Japan that values both strong "expertise" and "skills." We aim to educate new professionals in the fashion industry who can create Japanese brands in the global fashion business scene. At BFGU, we provide two specialization divisions, Fashion Creation and Fashion Management, within the Graduate School of Fashion Business. The aim is to educate talented people who have the intellect and skills to prevail in the world's fashion market. In agreement with the previously mentioned three fields of study in the fashion business, we have established three courses: Fashion Design Course, Fashion Technology Course, and Fashion Business Administration Course. Under each course's purpose, we have structured the curriculum in the Graduate School of Fashion Business in agreement with the Design field of study, Technology field of study, and Management field of study. Moreover, graduate students must initiate their subject of study. In addition to our curriculums focusing on real case studies, our professors are also businesspersons who have played an active part in leading positions in the fashion industry. Graduate students will also study the latest and advanced business skills and achieve motivation through visiting professors and visiting special lecturers, including designers such as Mr. Atsuro Tayama. View full university