is a private university in Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo. Its nickname is ''Shadai'' (写大). It was formerly known as Tokyo College of Photography (, ''Tōkyō Shashin Daigaku''). The university was founded as Konishi Professional School of Photography in

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in 1923. The founder, Rokuemon Sugiura VII, was the president of Konishi Main Shop (later

Konica was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers, founded in 1873. The company merged with Japanese peer M ...

) at that time and founded the school to fulfil the wish of Rokuemon Sugiura VI, the previous president. Since 2007, the university has offered courses in manga studies and animation studies. Tokyo Polytechnic is also notable for being one of the few universities in Japan to have a

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department, with its faculty including such notable practitioners as Pac-Man creator

Toru Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game ''Pac-Man'' (1980). Early life Iwatani was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan on January 25, 1955. While ...

and

Xevious is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades in 1982. It was released in Japan and Europe by Namco and in North America by Atari, Inc. Controlling the Solvalou starship, the player attacks Xevious f ...

creator

Masanobu Endō is a game designer, president of Game Studio and Mobile & Game Studio, and the director of Digital Games Research Association Japan. He formerly worked for Namco, where he created arcade games and is best known for ''Xevious'' and '' The Tower o ...

. The university also operates the Suginami Animation Museum, which focuses on the history and future of the animation industry in Japan.

Alumni

* Akitaro Daichi *

Eikoh Hosoe is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. Hosoe is best known for his dark, high contrast, black and white photographs of human bodies. His images are often psychologicall ...

(photographer) *

Yoko Kamio Yoko may refer to: People * Yoko (name), a Japanese feminine given name; variants include Yōko and Yohko * Yoko Gushiken (具志堅用高, born 1955), Japanese professional boxer * Yoko Taro (横尾太郎, born 1970), Japanese video game di ...

Takashi Koizumi Takashi Koizumi (小泉堯史 ''Koizumi Takashi'') (born November 6, 1944, in Mito, Ibaraki, Mito) is a Japanese people, Japanese film director. After graduating from Waseda University, he served as an assistant director for Akira Kurosawa for many ...

* Mouna Karray (photographer) * Kōichi Saitō (film director) *

Mutsuo Sugiura was a Japanese engineer famous for being the first to develop a Gastro-camera (a present-day Esophagogastroduodenoscope). His story was illustrated in the NHK TV documentary feature, "Project X: Challengers: The Development of a Gastro-camera Whol ...

* Sakae Tamura (photographer) *

Kenji Tsuruta is a Japanese manga artist. Among his most famous works is the science fiction series ''Spirit of Wonder'', which has been adapted into an anime series and brought him much acclaim. Profile During his formative years in university as a student of ...

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(photographer)

Academic staff

* Yoshino Ōishi,Profile
of Ōishi, Nikon Corp. Accessed 2010-11-03. photojournalist *

, game designer, creator of Pac-Man *

, game designer, creator of

and

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Hideo Yoshizawa born September 2, 1960, is a Japanese video game director, screenwriter, and producer, most famous for his work on the ''Ninja Gaiden'' and '' Klonoa'' series of video games. Prior to being employed by Namco, he worked for Tecmo and was involve ...

, game designer, known for work on ''

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'' and ''

Klonoa ''Klonoa'' is a platform video game series created by Namco in 1997. It stars Klonoa, an anthropomorphic creature who explores dream worlds. The series includes two main games: '' Klonoa: Door to Phantomile'' (1997) for the PlayStation and '' Klo ...

'' *

Jun Hatanaka was a Japanese manga and woodblock artist. Born in Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, marked his debut as a professional manga artist in 1977. Two years later, his most well-known work, '' Mandaraya no Ryouta'', began to be published in Jitsugyo no N ...

, manga and woodblock artist *

Mitsuru Hongo is a Japanese anime director of television and film. Hongo originally worked at Ajiado as an animator but moved to Shin-Ei Animation where he directed '' Crayon Shin-chan''. He left in 1996 and went on to direct ''Immortal Grand Prix'', ''Outla ...

, anime director *

Yuu Miyake is a Japanese composer and sound engineer formally for Bandai Namco Entertainment. His most known work surfaced with ''Katamari Damacy'' soundtracks, on which he served as a sound director. Other notable works include various tracks in the ''Tekke ...

, game composer

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