JapanUniversity of Economics abbreviated as Nikkeidai is a private university in Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan. The school was established in 1968 and adopted the present name in 2007, to reflect its nationwide character following the successful establishment of campuses in Kobe and Tokyo. The Japan University of Economics is part of the Tsuzuki Gakuen Group, a major supplier of higher education in Japan. The Tsuzuki Gakuen was founded in 1956 to provide an education centered upon the development of the individual, in contrast to the one-size-fits-all approach that prevailed in the education sector in Japan at the time. The current president of JUE is Asuka Tsuzuki, whose father Yasuhisa Tsuzuki, founded the university. The university under the leadership of the new president has gone on to become one of the three largest providers in Japan of education to overseas students.
Academic profile
The university specializes in economics and business, although within that context a wide range of courses are offered with the aim of enabling students to specialize in areas of business that appeal to them and pursue careers therein upon graduating. The Shibuya Campus also contains a graduate school offering Masters and Doctoral degrees. There is also a facility, the Hatchery, in Shibuya that provides support and office space for start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Facilities
JUE's Fukuoka Campus is a large campus including a landscaped park that contains on the same site a kindergarten, elementary school, junior- and senior-high school and a two-year training college for early childhood educators. The transfer of all departments on the Fukuoka Campus to new buildings has now been completed. The Kobe Campus is located in Sannomiya, in the center of the historic port city of Kobe, and the Shibuya Campus is in the center of Tokyo, a mere five minutes walk from Shibuya's famous Scramble Crossroads, and is understandably a magnet in particular for students of the fashion business course. Kobe and Shibuya are urban campuses, and share facilities with the main campus in Fukuoka, where there are several large sports halls, tennis courts, a track and a gym. Students at the Fukuoka Campus can live in one of two dormitories, Oxford House and Cambridge House, named in honor of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The Tsuzuki Gakuen Group has since 1996 maintained links with Fitzwilliam College and St Anne's College whereby scholarship support is provided to up to ten recent graduates to spend a year at the Fukuoka campus studying Japanese and teaching in schools linked to the Tsuzuki Group, and the colleges in return host students from JUE in the summer. Though these are the oldest formal overseas ties, numerous links have also been made with universities in the US, Europe and continental Asia, and exchanges are conducted yearly at undergraduate level with universities in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, Korea, France, Poland, Thailand and Vietnam.
