Daitō Bunka University

Daitō Bunka University
founding	1923/1949
Sponsorship	Private
place	Itabashi , Tokyo
country	Japan
Students	13,310 (May 2011)
Employee	356 (May 2011)
Website	www.daito.ac.jp

Main entrance to the Itabashi campus

Overbridge pedestrian bridge on the Higashimatsuyama campus

The Daitō-Bunka University ( Japanese 大 東 文化 大学 , Daitō bunka daigaku , dt. Literally "University for Culture of Great East Asia ", short: Daitōdai ( 大 東 大 ) or DBU ) is a private university in Japan . The main campus is located in Itabashi in Tokyo Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 1923 as Daitō Bunka Gakuin ( 大 東 文化 学院 , German "Academy for Culture of Greater East Asia") by the Daitō Bunka Association, which was founded in the same year and after the vote (1921) of the Japanese Parliament . The purpose of the foundation was to promote East Asian culture, especially Confucianism ( Sinology ). The academy was first located in Kudan, Chiyoda . In 1941 it moved to Ikebukuro and in 1944 it was renamed Daitō-Bunka-Gakuin-Fachschule.

In 1949 the technical school developed into the Bunsei University of Tokyo ( 東京 文 政 大学 , Tōkyō bunsei daigaku , German "University of Literature and Political Science Tokyo"). In 1953 it was renamed Daitō-Bunka University. In 1961 she moved to what is now the Itabashi campus. In 1967 the second campus was opened in Higashimatsuyama .

Faculties

• Itabashi Campus (in Itabashi, Tokyo Prefecture. 35 ° 46 ′ 54.2 ″  N , 139 ° 40 ′ 8 ″  E, Coordinates: 35 ° 46 ′ 54.2 ″  N , 139 ° 40 ′ 8 ″  E ):
  • Humanities
    • Departments: Japanese Literature, Sinology, Anglo-American Literature, Pedagogy, and Shodō
  • Foreign language studies
    • Language sections: Chinese , English , and Japanese
  • Environmental Sciences (Japanese 環境 創造 学部 , English Faculty of Social-Human Environmentology )
  • Economics
  • Jurisprudence
  • Business administration

• Higashimatsuyama Campus (in Higashimatsuyama , Saitama Prefecture. 36 ° 0 ′ 4.6 ″  N , 139 ° 22 ′ 5.7 ″  E ):
  • International Relations
  • Sports and Health Sciences

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Japan

Web links

Commons : Daitō Bunka University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese and English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 大学 ・ 大 学院 ・ 専 攻 科学 生 数 ［平 成 23 年度］ (number of students in bachelor programs , graduate schools and advanced courses [fiscal year 2011]), PDF in Japanese: Undergraduate 12,864, Post-Graduate 445, advanced courses 1. Accessed 7 January 2012.
2. ↑ 大学 職位 別 教員 数 ［平 成 23 年度］ (number of professors and academic staff by title [financial year 2011]), PDF in Japanese. Retrieved January 7, 2012.