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Showa Women's University

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Type
  
Private

Chancellor
  
Noriko Hitomi

Campus
  
Urban

Total enrollment
  
5,562 (1 May 2015)

Motto
  
"Be a Light to the World"

Established
  
1920

Location
  
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Undergraduate tuition and fees
  
1.428 million JPY (2013)

Founded
  
April 1949

Showa Women's University

Member of
  
Setagaya 6 Universities consortium

Address
  
1 Chome-7-57 Taishido, Setagaya, Tokyo 154-0004, Japan

Notable alumni
  
Mitsu Dan, Junko Tabei, Keiko Fukuda

Similar
  
Otsuma Women's University, Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo Woman's Christian, Toyo University

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Showa Women's University (昭和女子大学, Shōwa Joshi Daigaku) is a women's private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. It also contains a school with all levels from kindergarten to high school.

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History

Japan Women's School of Higher Education (日本女子高等学院, Nihon Joshi Kōtō Gakuin), the predecessor of this university, was established by poet Enkichi Hitomi (pseudonym: Tōmei Hitomi), who gathered together his intelligentsia friends that sympathized with the minds of those fashionable idols at the time, notably Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Graduate Programs

  • Letters
  • Human Life Sciences
  • Undergraduate Programs

  • Human Life Sciences
  • Human and Social Sciences
  • Human Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Others

  • Research Institutes
  • Center for General Education
  • Junior College
  • Hitomi Memorial Hall

    The Hitomi Kinen Kōdō on the university campus is famous for its great acoustics and has been used for many classical concerts with many famous conductors. Since the opening of Suntory Hall at Akasaka in central Tokyo in October 1986, the number of such prominent concerts have decreased, but it is still sometimes used for concerts open to the public.

    Building Five

    British School in Tokyo Showa Campus is located in Building 5.

    References

    Showa Women's University Wikipedia