is a university in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The university grew out of the leading boys private high school,

Musashi Junior and Senior High School is a privately owned school for boys based in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. History The school was founded in 1922 by industrialist Nezu Kaichirō, as Musashi High School. The school was one of the first institutions of its type to use a seven-year sy ...

, first established by businessman

Nezu Kaichirō was a Japanese businessman, national politician and philanthropist. Early life and career Born into an established merchant family in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo in 1897, and became independently wea ...

in 1922. The university has faculties of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

established in 1949,Musashi University｜Kotobank (Dictionaries)

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

established in 1969, and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

established in 1997, as well as three graduate schools.

References

External links

Official site

Musashi University Webpage

Musashi University Library
Private universities and colleges in Japan Nerima Universities and colleges in Tokyo {{tokyo-university-stub