Showa Women's University

Showa Women's University

Infobox University
name = Showa Women's University
native_name = 昭和女子大学


motto = Be a light to the world |
established = 1920
type = Private
head_label = Chancellor
head = Noriko Hitomi
city = Setagaya
state = Tokyo
country = Japan
undergrad =
postgrad =
postgrad_label = graduate
faculty =
campus = Urban
colors =
free_label = Member of
mascot =
free = Setagaya 6 Universities consortium
website = [http://www.swu.ac.jp/e/ www.swu.ac.jp]

nihongo|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.

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. Curiously the University is currently admitting only Tolstoy, whose expensive Russian-made statue stands in front of the Hitomi Memorial Hall.

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 Showa Women's University Hitomi Memorial Hall 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.

External links

* [http://www.swu.ac.jp/e/ Showa Women's University] - English, Official website
* [http://www.showaboston.org/home.html?language=en Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture (Showa Boston)] - Satellite campus, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA


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