Type Private Students 1359 Phone +81 53-439-1400 Undergraduates 1,314 Postgraduates 45 | Affiliation Protestant Total enrollment 1,513 (1 May 2015) Founded 1992 Academic staff 293 | |
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Established 1887; university from 2002 Address Japan, 〒433-8105 Shizuoka Prefecture, Hamamatsu, Kita Ward, Mikataharacho, ３４５３ Similar Tokoha University, Gunma University of Health, Hamamatsu Gakuin University, Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin U, Shizuoka University of Welfare Profiles | ||
Seirei christopher university at hamamatsu musical instrument museum
Seirei Christopher University (聖隷クリストファー大学, Seirei Kurisutofa Daigaku) is a co-educational private university in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan.
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History
Seirei Christopher University began as the “Bethel Home”, a private tuberculosis sanatorium established in 1932 by local Japanese Christians in Hamamatsu. From the beginning, the sanatorium faced difficulties with finances and hostility from its neighbors due to prejudices against tuberculosis sufferers and followers of Christianity. Although the sanatorium raised funds to acquire land outside of the city by 1937, it continued to experience problems due to the increasingly totalitarian attitude of the pre-war Japanese government. An unexpected donation on Christmas Day, 1939, directly from Emperor Hirohito, resolved both its financial issues and problems with the local government.
In the immediate postwar period, the sanatorium expanded into education by forming the “Enshū School of Christ”, the forerunner of both "Seirei Christopher High School" and "Seirei Christopher University" in 1949. Seeing the need for increased medical services in postwar Japan, the sanatorium created the "Seirei Vocational School for Practical Nurses" in 1952; it changed its name in 1969 to the "Seirei Gakuen Junior College of Nursing". In 1992, with the financial help of three billion yen from the Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Company, a four-year "Seirei Christopher College of Nursing" was founded.
Seirei Christopher College of Nursing changed its name to "Seirei Christopher College" when the School of Social Work was established in 2002. The School of Social Work started a graduate studies programs in April 2004. Also in 2004, the School of Rehabilitation Sciences was founded.