Tokushima Bunri University
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徳島文理大学 Tokushima Bunri Daigaku | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1895 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Tokushima, Tokushima Sanuki, Kagawa |
| Website | www.bunri-u.ac.jp/ |
Tokushima Bunri University (徳島文理大学, Tokushima bunri daigaku) is a private university in Tokushima, Japan.
History
[edit]In 1895, Sai Murasaki founded a private vocational school. In 1966, "Tokushima Women's University" was founded. In 1972, "Tokushima Women`s University" was renamed "Tokushima Bunri University".
In 1983, Tokushima Bunri University Kagawa Campus opens.
After several years of exchanges between Tokushima Bunri University and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, in 2000 a formal agreement was signed. One result is that professors from Vienna now come to Bunri to offer summer and winter cooperative seminars.
Tokushima Bunri University wanted to focus more on music treatment and conducted a mutual agreement with Shenandoah University, Virginia, USA whose professors actively pursue research on this topic.
Faculty
[edit]- Pharmaceutical Science
- Engineering
- Pharmaceutical Science at Kagawa Campus
- Human Life Sciences
- Policy Studies
- Literature
- Music
- Junior College
Attached schools
[edit]- Tokushima Bunri kindergarten
- Tokushima Bunri high school
Sister school
[edit]| Country | University | Year |
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 Canada |
Vancouver Community College | 1988 |
 United States |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1995 |
| Canada |
Langara College | 1995 |
| United States |
Indiana University | 1998 |
 Vietnam |
Vietnam National University, Hanoi | 1999 |
 Austria |
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | 2000 |
| United States |
Shenandoah University | 2000 |
 Hong Kong |
University of Hong Kong | 2003 |
 South Korea |
Dankook University | 2004 |
| Hong Kong |
City University of Hong Kong | 2005 |
 Slovenia |
Jožef Stefan Institute | 2005 |
 Italy |
University of Pavia | 2006 |
 Australia |
Griffith University | 2008 |
Notable associates
[edit]- Hiroyuki Nagao - kayaker, 2008 Summer Olympics representative of Japan
- Michael Frischenschlager - Violinist, former president of University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, emeritus professor of Bunri University
- Giuseppe Mariotti - pianist, professor of Bunri University.
- Ernst Friedrich Seiler - pianist, professor of Bunri University in 1974–1996.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- official site (in English)
- official site (in Japanese)
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