is a
private university
Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they often receive tax breaks, public student loans, and government grants. Depending on the count ...
in
Shibata, Miyagi
is a towns of Japan, town located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 37,617, and a population density of 700 persons per km2 in 15,590 households. The total area of the town is .
Geography
Shibata is located ...
,
Japan
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, established in 1967. It is the only university specializing in
physical education
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in northern Japan.
History
Sendai University was established in 1967. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1879.
In February 2013, the Pāli Text Society, Sendai University, and the
University of Toronto
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, along with local partners, began an ongoing initiative to digitise and catalogue
Myanmar's palm-leaf manuscripts, including collections from
U Pho Thi Library
U Pho Thi Library (), officially known as the (), is a Buddhist library or pitakataik in Thaton, Mon State, Myanmar. The library houses a rare collection of 785 traditional manuscripts, including palm leaf manuscripts and parabaiks, in a three ...
in
Thaton
Thaton (; ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. Thaton lies along the National Highway 8 and is also connected by the National Road 85. It is southeast of Yangon and north of Mawlamyine. Thaton was the capit ...
, and
Bagaya Monastery
The Bagaya Monastery (), located in Inwa, Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar) is a Buddhist monastery built on the southwest of Inwa Palace. This magnificent monastery is also known as Maha Waiyan Bontha Bagaya Monastery. During King Hsinbyushin's re ...
in Inwa.
The digitised manuscripts are available at the
open-access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library.
Organization
Undergraduate
*Faculty of Physical Education
** Department of Physical Education (sports coaching, sports trainer, sports management courses
** Health and Welfare Department (Exercise and Nutrition courses)
** Sports Information Department (Mass Media, sports information strategy)
** Modern Martial Arts Department
Graduate
*Graduate School of Sport Sciences (MSc)
Alumni
*
Shuichi Akai (footballer)
*
Shinji Doigawa
*
Tsuyoshi Furukawa
*
Koji Hachisuka
*
Hironobu Haga
is a former Japanese football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' ge ...
*
Shota Hasunuma
*
Sōta Hirayama
is a former Japanese Association football, football player. He played for Japan national football team, Japan national team.
Club career
As a teenager, Hirayama attended Kunimi High School in Nagasaki Prefecture. There, he won the All Japan Hig ...
, footballer
*
Junya Hosokawa
*
Reiichi Ikegami
is a former Japanese football player.
Ikegami previously played for FC Tokyo in the J1 League
The , the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japan ...
*
Masaru Inada, skeleton racer
*
Dan Ito
*
Hideki Uchidate, footballer
*
Seiji Kawakami
*
Nozomi Komuro
*
Kazuhiro Koshi, skeleton racer
*
Kento Kumabara, baseball player
*
Toshiki Kuroiwa
*
Masakatsu Sawa
*
Hikaru Minegishi, footballer
*
Yoshinobu Minowa
*
Shinji Miura
is a Japanese bobsledder. He competed in the two man and the four man events at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
References
1975 births
Living people
Japanese male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Japan
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter ...
*
Tomohiro Moriyama, basketball coach
*
Takumi Obara, Triathlete
*
Takako Oguchi
*
Yoshitaka Ohashi
*
Hiroaki Okuno (footballer)
*
Keita Saito
*
Daisuke Sato (footballer)
*
Mitsuhiro Sato
*
Shinya Sato, basketball player
*
Takuya Sugai
*
Yukiya Sugita
*
Hiroshi Suzuki (bobsledder)
*
Hiroatsu Takahashi
*
Naomi Takewaki
*
Miki Tanaka, Judoka
*
Yoshiichi Watanabe
*
Yuji Yaku
*
Mitsuo Yamada
References
External links
Official website
Universities and colleges established in 1879
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Shibata, Miyagi
Universities and colleges in Miyagi Prefecture
1879 establishments in Japan
Sports universities and colleges
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