Daito Bunka University
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Daito Bunka University (大東文化大学, Daitō Bunka Daigaku; だいとうぶんかだいがく ,lit. Great East Culture University) is a private university with two campuses: one at Itabashi in Tokyo and the other at Higashi Matsuyama in Saitama, Japan. The university is known for its sports program, which is renowned in rugby and distance running, with the Ekiden (駅伝; えきでん, relay road race) team coming fourth in the prestigious January 2009 New Year Hakone Ekiden. Daito Bunka focuses primarily on cultural arts and humanities.
It is known as one of the top calligraphy schools in the nation and one of the few universities in Japan to teach Arabic and Urdu.
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