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Sapporo, Hokkaido is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...

, 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 Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George 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 is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...

several blocks from

Hokkaido University , or , is a public research university in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Founded in 1918, it is the fifth-oldest government-authorised university in Japan and one of the former Imperial Universities. The university finds its roots in Sapporo A ...

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 Universities and colleges 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