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Sapporo, Hokkaido ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

, Japan.

History

The predecessor of the school was founded in 1925, and it was chartered as a university in 1961. The university was founded by three

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after an appeal from the first parish chief, Bishop Wenseslaus Kinold of the Sapporo

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.About the University, Fuji Women's University website http://www.fujijoshi.ac.jp/english/

Academics

Fuji Women's University consists of two faculties: the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Human Life Sciences. In addition, there is the Graduate School of Human Life Sciences. It has two campuses: one in the northern part of

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

several blocks from

Hokkaido University , or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered ...

and another in Ishikari-shi in the suburbs of Sapporo. According to an article in the November 22, 2013 issue of the ''Nihon Keizai Newspaper'', the university ranked third among 26 universities in Hokkaido.TOP UNIVERSITIES IN HOKKAIDO, New University Ranking by 2016 University Web Ranking https://www.4icu.org/jp/hokkaido/

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* Kita-ku, Sapporo Educational institutions established in 1925 Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Hokkaido 1925 establishments in Japan Catholic universities and colleges in Japan Women's universities and colleges in Japan {{Hokkaidō-university-stub