Showa Women's University

Showa Women's University
	昭和女子大学
Motto	"Be a Light to the World"
Type	Private
Established	1920
Chancellor	Mariko Bando
Location	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban
Member of	Setagaya 6 Universities consortium
Website	swu.ac.jp

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 affiliated schools with all levels from kindergarten to high school.

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.

Organisation

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.

Primary and secondary schools on campus

University-affiliated

Showa Women's University Junior-Senior High School
Showa Women's University Primary School (昭和女子大学附属昭和小学校)
Showa Women's University Kindergarten (昭和女子大学附属昭和こども園)

British School in Tokyo Showa Campus is located in Building 5.[1]

Notable people

Mitsu Dan – actress, model, and writer
Keiko Fukuda – highest-ranked female judoka in history
Satoko Kitahara – Catholic saint (The Venerable)
Emi Machida – master sake brewer (toji)
Yui Ogura – voice actress (graduated in 2018)
Junko Tabei – first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

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References

"Facilities and Location." British School in Tokyo. Retrieved on March 8, 2015. "BST Shibuya Campus – (Nursery to Year 3) Address: 1-21-18 Shibuya Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0002" (Map) and "BST Showa Campus – (Year 4 to Year 13) Address: Showa Women’s University 5th Bldg. 1-7-57 Taishido Setagaya-ku Tokyo 154-8533"

External links

Showa Women's University - English, Official website
Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture (Showa Boston) - Satellite campus, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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[1] "Facilities and Location." British School in Tokyo. Retrieved on March 8, 2015. "BST Shibuya Campus – (Nursery to Year 3) Address: 1-21-18 Shibuya Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0002" (Map) and "BST Showa Campus – (Year 4 to Year 13) Address: Showa Women’s University 5th Bldg. 1-7-57 Taishido Setagaya-ku Tokyo 154-8533"