Tokyo Polytechnic University
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The university was founded as Konishi Professional School of Photography in Shibuya in 1923. The founder, Rokuemon Sugiura VII, was the president of Konishi Main Shop (later Konica) at that time and founded the school to fulfil the wish of Rokuemon Sugiura VI, the previous president.[1]
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 game design department,[2] with its faculty including such notable practitioners as Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani[3][4] and Xevious creator Masanobu Endō.[4][5] The university also operates the Suginami Animation Museum, which focuses on the history and future of the animation industry in Japan.[6]
Alumni
- Akitaro DaichiScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Eikoh Hosoe (photographer)[7]
- Yoko KamioScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Takashi KoizumiScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Mouna Karray (photographer) [8]
- Kōichi Saitō (film director)Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Mutsuo SugiuraScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Sakae Tamura (photographer)[9]
- Kenji TsurutaScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Tsutomu Miyazaki
- Shin Yanagisawa (photographer)[10]
Academic staff
- Yoshino Ōishi,[11] photojournalist
- Toru Iwatani, game designer, creator of Pac-Man
- Masanobu Endō, game designer, creator of Xevious and The Tower of Druaga
- Hideo Yoshizawa,[12] game designer, known for work on Ninja Gaiden and Klonoa
- Jun Hatanaka, manga and woodblock artist
- Mitsuru Hongo, anime director
- Yuu Miyake, game composer
Notes
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- ↑ Jinbo Kyōko (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), "Hosoe Eikō" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; Template:ISBN), p.277.
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- ↑ Nihon kindai shashin no seiritsu to tenkai (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan (Tokyo: Tokyo Museum of Photography, 1995), p.277.
- ↑ Nakahara Atsuyuki (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), "Yanagisawa Shin" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; Template:ISBN), p.316.
- ↑ Profile of Ōishi, Nikon Corp. Accessed 2010-11-03.
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