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Ochanomizu Women's University
is a women's university in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan. Ochanomizu is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded. History The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School". The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.Those newly finished school buildings are documented in the digital photo archive: . It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1 ...
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National University
A national university is mainly a university created or managed by a government, but which may also at the same time operate autonomously without direct control by the state. Some national universities are associated with national cultural or political aspirations. For example, the National University of Ireland during the early days of Irish independence collected a large amount of information about the Irish language and Irish culture. In Argentina, the national universities are the result of the 1918 Argentine university reform and subsequent reforms, which were intended to provide a secular university system without direct clerical or government influence by bestowing self-government on the institutions. List of national universities Albania Argentina * University of Buenos Aires Australia * Australian National University Bangladesh * National University of Bangladesh Bhutan * Royal University of Bhutan Bosnia and Herzegovina * University of Sarajevo Brazil * ...
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1923 Great Kantō Earthquake
The struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive firestorms and even a fire whirl added to the death toll. Civil unrest after the disaster (i.e., the Kantō Massacre) has been documented. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale (), with its focus deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay. The cause was a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough. Since 1960, September 1 has been designated by the Japanese government as , or a day in remembrance of and to prepare for major natural disasters including tsunami and typhoons. Drills, as well as knowledge promotion events, are centered around that date as well as awards ceremonies for people of merit. Earthquake T ...
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Women's Universities And Colleges In Japan
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Througho ...
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Educational Institutions Established In 1875
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ...
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Japanese National Universities
As of 2013, there were 86 , 90 public universities and 606 private universities in Japan. National universities tend to be held in higher regard in higher education in Japan than private or public universities. As of the 2019 fiscal year, the number of national universities, 86, is unchanged, while the number of public universities increased to 93 and private universities increased to 607 compared with 2013. History In 2004, the national university system underwent partial privatization. Since 2004, each national university has been incorporated as a and given limited autonomy in its operations.Keiko Yokoyama (2007) Changing Definitions of University Autonomy: The Cases of England and Japan, Higher Education in Europe, 32:4, 399-409, DOI: 10.1080/03797720802066294 Faculty and staff are no longer working for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. University names which shifted are . Designated National Universities In April 2017, an amendment to the ...
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Ochanomizu University
is a women's university in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan. Ochanomizu is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded. History The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School". The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.Those newly finished school buildings are documented in the digital photo archive: . It was established as Ochanomizu University ...
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National University Corporation
is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan. History As part of promoting the reform of Japanese universities, all Japanese national universities has been incorporated as a National University Corporation since 2004. In 2018, National University Corporation Gifu University and National University Corporation Nagoya University integrated the new " Tokai National Higher Education and Research System", which became the first case of a Corporation owning two universities.【教育の森】国立初・名古屋大と岐阜大 運営法人統合/研究と地域創生 相乗効果狙い< ...
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Ōtsuka
is a Japanese surname. Alternative transliterations include Otsuka and Ohtsuka. Notable people with the surname include: * Ai Otsuka (大塚 愛, born 1982), Japanese pop singer from the Kansai region * Akinori Otsuka (大塚 晶則, born 1972), Japanese baseball player * Akio Ōtsuka (大塚 明夫, born 1959), Japanese voice actor, son of Chikao Ohtsuka * Chihiro Otsuka (大塚 ちひろ, born 1986), Japanese actress * Chikao Ohtsuka (大塚 周夫, 1929–2015), Japanese voice actor, father of Akio Ōtsuka * Gen Ōtsuka (大束 元, 1912–1992), Japanese photographer * Hirofumi Otsuka (大塚 博文, born 1947), Japanese speed skater * Hironori Ōtsuka (大塚 博紀, 1892–1982), creator and first Grand Master of the Japanese karate style Wado-ryu * Hōchū Ōtsuka (大塚 芳忠, born 1954), Japanese voice actor * James Otsuka (1921–1984), war tax resister * Julie Otsuka (born 1962), Japanese American author * Michael Otsuka (born 1964), London-based academian * Miyako Ō ...
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Kyoritsu Women's University
is a private women's college in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, established in 1949. History The vocational predecessor of the school was founded in 1886. The name "Kyoritsu", meaning "standing together" in Japanese, came from the fact that 34 people were involved in the foundation of the school; among them were educator Haruko Hatoyama, Kyuichiro Nagai (the father of writer Kafu Nagai), and educator Seiichi Tejima. Mission The founding of Kyoritsu marked the very beginning of women's higher education in Japan: To recognize the need to "educate modern women in knowledge and skills, and to elevate the position of women in society." Facilities Kyoritsu Kodo is the school's 2,010-capacity auditorium. The auditorium has been used for concerts, hosting bands such as Free, James Gang and Yes. Exchanges The university has established exchanges and links with other international institutions of higher education—for example, the University of PennsylvaniaDe Mejía, Anne-Marie. (2002) ...
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Bunkyō
is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there. Bunkyō is home to the Tokyo Dome, Judo's Kōdōkan, and the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus. Bunkyō has a sister-city relationship with Kaiserslautern in the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Hongo and Koishikawa wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Bunkyo ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Nezu and Sendagi neighborhoods in the ward's eastern corner is attached to the Shitamachi area in Ueno with more traditional Japanese atmosphere. On the other hand, the remaining areas of the ward typically represent Yamanote districts. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has a population of 217,743 (including abou ...
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