Tohoku University of Art and Design
Higher education institution in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Tohoku University of Art and Design (東北芸術工科大学, Tōhoku geijutsu kōka daigaku) is a private university in Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan. Established in April 1992 by the governments of Yamagata Prefecture and Yamagata City, it was the first university in Japan to be built with government funds and then turned over to be operated as an entirely private institution. The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs through its Faculty of Arts and Design Engineering departments.
History
Established in April 1992 by the governments of Yamagata Prefecture and Yamagata City, the Tohoku University of Art and Design is the first venture of its kind in Japan where a university built with funds by the government has been turned over to be operated as an entirely private university.
“Tohoku University of Art and Design” enters the record as higher education institution in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tohoku, University and Design can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Tohoku University of Art and Design” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tohoku, University and Design provides the most credible route into that argument.
Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6364092. VIAF identifies the subject as 144103339. The Library of Congress control number is nr2005021703. Authority coordinates are 38.218, 140.346. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Tohoku University of Art and Design”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Tohoku University of Art and Design primary sources, Tohoku University of Art and Design archive and Tohoku research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tohoku University of Art and Design”?
- What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Tohoku University of Art and Design” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.