Tokyo Fuji University
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Private university
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in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Shinjuku, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population...
, Japan
Japan
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. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1943. It was chartered as a junior college in 1951 and became a four-year college in 2002.
In 2008 the Department of Psychology was established.