Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University
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in Asakita,
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...
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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1948 by Miki Takeda. It was chartered as a junior women's college in 1962 and became a four-year college in 1966. In 2019, the university became fully coeducational. The university has two faculties consisting of six departments: Faculty of Education: * Primary Education Department * Secondary Education Department Faculty of Human Services: * Welfare Department * Psychology Department * Nutrition Department * Global Communication Department In addition, the university has the Bunkyo English Communication Center (BECC), which operates in cooperation with all departments. The BECC arranges all native-speaker English courses and houses the Self-Access Learning Center (SALC), with Learning Advisors and administrative staff to support student English skill development.


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