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Tokushima is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...

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History

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 may refer to: * , the smallest prefecture of Japan by area, located on the island of Shikoku * , a district in Kagawa Prefecture * , a town located in Kagawa District * , train station in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture * Kagawa (surname) Kagawa (w ...

Campus opens. After several years of exchanges between Tokushima Bunri University and the

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

, 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

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, Virginia, USA whose professors actively pursue research on this topic.

Faculty

* Pharmaceutical Science * Engineering * Pharmaceutical Science at Kagawa Campus * Human Life Sciences * Policy Studies * Literature * Music * Junior College

Attached schools

* Tokushima Bunri kindergarten * Tokushima Bunri high school

Sister school

Notable associates

Hiroyuki Nagao is a Japanese slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2003 to 2011. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C2 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing in 9th place. His partner in the C2 boat from 2007 t ...

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representative of

* Michael Frischenschlager -

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ist, former

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of Bunri University *

Giuseppe Mariotti Giuseppe Mariotti (1963-Broni) is an Italian classical pianist.. 2003~ University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, dispatch professor at the music faculty of the Tokushima Bunri University. Since 2007 full-time professor and dean of the musi ...

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

, professor of Bunri University. * Ernst Friedrich Seiler - pianist, professor of Bunri University in 1974–1996.

External links

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