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private Private or privates may refer to: Music * " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...

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Yokohama, Kanagawa is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

, Japan. It is a part of

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( 学校法人フェリス女学院). The predecessor of the school was founded by American

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missionaries in 1870 with the assistance of

James Curtis Hepburn James Curtis Hepburn (; March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, translator, educator, and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into ...

, primarily to teach the English language and western cultural values to women. The male counterpart of the school later became

Meiji Gakuin University is a Christian university in Tokyo and Yokohama that was established in 1863. The Reverend Dr. James Curtis Hepburn was one of its founders and served as the first president. The novelist and poet Shimazaki Toson graduated from this coll ...

. It was chartered as a junior college in 1950 and became a four-year college in 1965. The school currently has two campus locations: the main Ryokuen campus in

Izumi-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010 the ward had an estimated population of 155,674 and a density of 6,620 persons per km². The total area was 23.51 km². Geography Izumi Ward is located i ...

and a subsidiary Yamate campus for 3rd and 4th year music students at

Naka-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563 and a population density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km². Geography Naka Ward ...

. Composed mainly of the departments of Humanities, International Studies and Music, the school has a student population of 2,667 undergraduates and 78 graduates, with a teaching staff of 85 professors and lecturers.

History

Ferris Women's College was established in 1965. It originated from the Ferris Seminary, named by 1875 and established by

Mary Kidder Mary Eddy Kidder (January 31, 1834 – June 25, 1910) was an American missionary and educator in Japan. She established Ferris Women's Seminary (later Ferris University), the first Christian women's college in Japan. She was born into a devo ...

.History of Ferris
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. Ferris University. Retrieved on April 5, 2015. In 1988, Ryokuen campus was founded. Ferris.ac.jp. (2016). 沿革｜フェリス女学院大学. nlineAvailable at: http://www.ferris.ac.jp/information/history/history.html ccessed 3 Nov. 2016

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