Tenri University
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Tenri University (天理大学 Tenri Daigaku?) is a Japanese private university in Tenri, Nara Prefecture. It was established in February 1925 as the coeducational Tenri Foreign Languages School (天理外国語専門学校 Tenri Gaikokugo Senmon Gakkō?), enrolling 104 students, and was reorganised as a university in April 1949.[1] The university is associated with Tenrikyō, a Japanese panentheist religious movement founded in 1838.[2] In 2002, the school attracted national notice when it was discovered that a professor there had posted student attendance information and grades on his publicly-accessible personal website; the university disciplined the professor for violating the students' privacy.[3]
[edit] Notable students and faculty
- Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan jūdōka and Olympic gold medalist, studied at Tenri University in 1961[4]
- Shunpei Mizuno, author, graduated in 1990 with a major in Korean language[5]
- Motohiro Ono, head of the Japan-Ukraine Cultural Relations Society[6]
- Shinichi Shinohara, world-champion gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist jūdōka[7]
[edit] References
- ^ 沿革 (Japanese). Tenri University (2005). Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
- ^ Hawkins, John N.; Judith A. Takata (July 1972). "Tenri University: A Religious Approach to International Education". Peabody Journal of Education 49 (4): pp. 300–306.
- ^ Brender, Alan. "Japanese University Reprimands Professor for Posting Names and Grades on a Public Web Site", The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002-03-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
- ^ Geesink, Anton (1966). My Championship Judo. Arco. ISBN 0668015012.
- ^ "光州の人気者 方言巧み「面白い日本人」(Popular people in Gwangju: The "amusing Japanese" who's good at the local dialect)", Hokkaidō Shimbun, 2002-03-27. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
- ^ Ueba, Hiroyuki. "A cultural bridge to Ukraine Osaka author promoting exchanges between Slav country, Japan", The Daily Yomiuri, 2006-07-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
- ^ "Japan's judo giant seeks revenge over French rival", CNN, 2000-08-25. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
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