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Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin
is a private girls academy founded on November 6, 1884, in Azabu, Minato, Tokyo by Martha J. Cartmell, a Methodist missionary from Canada.SeHistory of Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin, page 1. Accessed June 15, 2006] Toyo Eiwa Women's University, established as a four-year college in 1989, is attached to the school. History Originally begun in 1884 with two students, an elementary school was added in 1888, and a senior high school in 1889. The school expanded to include a kindergarten class in 1914, a dormitory, kindergarten building, and a house for the Methodist missionaries in 1932, and a brand new building for the school in 1933.SeHistory of Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin, page 2. Accessed June 15, 2006. Due to the anti-Western sentiment during World War II, the (meaning "English") in was changed to , meaning "eternal" or "eternity", in 1941. The name was changed back in 1946.SeHistory of Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin, page 3. Accessed June 15, 2006. Because of the changes made in the Japanese education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private University
Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money), grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities may be contrasted with public university, public universities and national university, national universities. Many private universities are nonprofit organizations. Africa Egypt Egypt currently has 20 public universities (with about two million students) and 23 private universities (60,000 students). Egypt has many private universities, including The American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo, the British University in Egypt, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Misr University for Science and Technology, Misr International University, Future University in Egypt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the northeast, Saitama Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southeast, Shizuoka Prefecture and Aichi Prefecture to the south, and Gifu Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture to the west. Nagano is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, with other major cities including Matsumoto, Ueda, and Iida. Nagano Prefecture has impressive highland areas of the Japanese Alps, including most of the Hida Mountains, Kiso Mountains, and Akaishi Mountains which extend into the neighbouring prefectures. The abundance of mountain ranges, natural scenic beauty, and rich history has gained Nagano Prefecture international recognition as a world-class winter sports tourist destination, including hosting the 1998 Winter Olympics and a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanako Muraoka
was a Japanese novelist and translator. She is best known for translating ''Anne of Green Gables'' by L.M. Montgomery into Japanese. Early life and education Muraoka was born on June 21, 1893, in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture. Her birth name was . Her parents were Methodists, and she was raised a devout Christian. She studied at the Tokyo Eiwa Jogakuin and began writing children's stories when she was encouraged by translator Hiroko Katayama. She graduated from school in 1913. Career After graduation, Muraoka returned to Yamanashi and taught at a branch of the Tokyo Eiwa Jogakuin there. In 1917 she published her first book, . She married Keizo Muraoka in 1919. They had a son in 1920. In 1926, after Keizo's printing company went bankrupt after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, they restarted the company in their home. Soon after that, their son died, leaving Muraoka depressed. Katayama encouraged her to translate Mark Twain's ''The Prince and the Pauper'', and this helped h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byakuren Yanagiwara
Byakuren Yanagiwara (Japanese: 柳原 白蓮, ''Yanagiwara Byakuren'', October 15, 1885 - February 22, 1967) was a Japanese poet and novelist. She is best known for the "Byakuren incident". She is one of the Three Beauties of Taishō period. Life Akiko Yanagiwara (柳原 燁子) was born on October 15, 1885, in Tokyo as the second daughter of statesman and diplomat Count Yanagiwara Sakimitsu. Her mother was one of his concubines, Ryō, a daughter of a fallen samurai family who was a geisha in Yanagibashi. The Yanagiwara family were of the Reizei family line of the Fujiwara clan. Sakimitsu was the elder brother of Emperor Taishō's mother, Yanagiwara Naruko, making Yanagiwara a first cousin of Emperor Taishō. In 1894, she was adopted by a distant relative, Viscount Yorimitsu Kitakōji. She entered the Kazoku Girls' School in 1898. In 1900, she was married to the eldest son of the Kitakōji family, Suketake, at the age of 15, after which she dropped out of school due to her pregn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katayama Hiroko
Katayama Hiroko (片山広子 born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957) was a Japanese poet and translator. She did many translations of Irish writers under the pseudonym Matsumura Mineko. Her husband was a noted bureaucrat. She reportedly took her pseudonym from a name she saw on a child's umbrella. She maintained a friendship with Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and he reportedly said of her "Finally I have met a woman who can be called my equal in the arena of words." She also acted as a mentor to Muraoka Hanako who is known in Japan for translating Anne of Green Gables ''Anne of Green Gables'' is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th century, t .... References 1878 births 1958 deaths Japanese translators Japanese women poets Writers from Tokyo {{Japan-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruiko Yoshida
is a Japanese photojournalist. Her worked focused on scenes of discrimination around the world. Biography She was born in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. As an elementary school student she witness discrimination against some male Ainu students, and this influenced her later work. She graduated from Keio University in 1959. After graduation she worked as an announcer for the NHK and Asahi Broadcasting. In 1961 she studied under a Fulbright scholarship at Ohio State University and Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ....''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese She earned a master's degree in photojournalism from Columbia in 1964. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misako Yasui
is a legislator in the National Diet of Japan, holding a seat in the House of Councillors. She is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), serving as a representative of Aichi Prefecture. Early life Once completing her studies at New York University, Ms. Yasui joined McKinsey & Company in Tokyo, serving as a business analyst. She formulated corporate strategies in the areas of marketing, product development, sales strategies and organization restructuring. She then joined Misumi Group Inc. and led a team that launched a new food service business entity､that became a model for others. Yasui then became an independent consultant helping corporations and local governments. At that time, she worked as an advisor for "the Office of City Management Reform" of the City of Osaka and then as a Special Advisor for Osaka Prefectural Government. She first collaborated with Toru Hashimoto, the former Governor of Osaka and the current Mayor of Osaka. Yasui became determined to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoba-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 302,643 and a density of 8,610 persons per km². The total area was 35.14 km². Geography Aoba is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and in the northwest corner of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills. Surrounding municipalities * Midori Ward * Tsuzuki Ward * Kawasaki *Machida, Tokyo History The area around present-day Aoba Ward was formerly part of Tsutsuki District in Musashi Province. During the Edo period, it was a rural region classified as ''tenryō'' territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various ''hatamoto''. After the Meiji Restoration, the area became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1868. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, the area was divided into the villages of . During the Meiji period, the area was a center for sericulture. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
