The Open University of Japan

The Open University of Japan
放送大学
	The Open University of Japan
Motto	Whenever, Wherever, Whoever
Type	Private (Semi public)
Established	Founded 1981; Chartered 1983
President	Prof. Masaya Iwanaga
Undergraduates	80,799 (2007)
Postgraduates	6,245 (2007)
Location	Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan
Campus	Urban (learning centers)
Member of	ICDE
Website	www.ouj.ac.jp/eng/index.html

The Open University of Japan (放送大学, Hōsō Daigaku, formerly The University of the Air, the English name of the university was changed on 1 October 2007) is a distance learning university which has students from all over Japan; it accepted its first students in 1985.^[1]

^ Sakamoto, Takashi (1986). "Take-off of the Japanese University of the Air". International Review of Education. 32 (3): 346–350. Bibcode:1986IREdu..32..346S. doi:10.1007/BF02426070. ISSN 0020-8566. JSTOR 3444189. Retrieved 4 February 2024.

[1] Sakamoto, Takashi (1986). "Take-off of the Japanese University of the Air". International Review of Education. 32 (3): 346–350. Bibcode:1986IREdu..32..346S. doi:10.1007/BF02426070. ISSN 0020-8566. JSTOR 3444189. Retrieved 4 February 2024.

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