TOKYO >> Tokyo University of the Arts announced in July that it will launch a Department of Games and Interactive Arts master’s program in the Graduate School of Film and New Media in April 2026.

“Japanese games, which have exploded in popularity, have gained worldwide recognition and should be promoted,” President Katsuhiko Hibino said at a press conference in Tokyo. “We aim to conduct and disseminate research on games from the unique perspective of an arts university with expertise in fine arts and music.”

The university views games as a “new form of comprehensive art in the modern era” since it combines multiple artistic disciplines — including fine arts, music and video — with digital technology.

With the expanding use of games in such fields as health care and education, the univer

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