Tokyo University of the Arts: Mission and Goals

During the over 130 years since the founding of its predecessors, Tokyo Fine Arts School and Tokyo Music School, Tokyo University of the Arts has played a key role in art education and research in Japan by preserving the traditions of Japanese culture and combining them with the ideology and techniques of art practices from around the world. Over the course of its history, the university has produced an array of outstanding artists, as well as educators and researchers in artistic fields from secondary to higher education.

Our mission is to create diverse values of art together with society and play a key role in further developing art and culture in Japan and the world, while respecting the spirit of freedom and creativity that has existed since the university’s foundation as a comprehensive arts university in Japan.

To achieve this mission, we have identified the following goals:

? Facilitate art education at the highest global standards and cultivate superior expertise and a high level of integrity for artists, educators, researchers and all art practitioners.
? Promote the succession of traditional culture and creation of new artistic expression while collaborating with other academic disciplines and art education and research institutions in Japan and overseas.
? Pursue activities that promote an understanding of the importance of art in creating a spiritually rich and dynamic society, strive to create opportunities for all people to become familiar with art, and contribute to society through art.