is the oldest and largest of private

Japanese women's universities The following is a list of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan. A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. Most of these are private universities; a few are funded by the ...

. The university was established on 20 April 1901 by education reformist . The university has around 6000 students and 200 faculty. It has two campuses, named after the

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s in which they are located: Mejirodai (目白台) in Bunkyō, Tokyo, and Nishi-Ikuta (西生田) in Tama, Kawasaki,

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

. There are associated schools from

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through

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History

Japan Women's University was founded by educator Jinzo Naruse in 1901. Initially, the university comprised three departments: home economics, Japanese literature, and English literature.

Faculty

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*Integrated arts and

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Notable alumnae

Tsuruko Haraguchi was a Japanese psychologist and the first Japanese woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy. Life and career Haraguchi was born in Tomioka, Japan in 1886. Her father was a wealthy farmer and she had two sisters. She attended Takasaki Women's H ...

, first Japanese woman to earn a doctorate in

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Yumie Hiraiwa was a Japanese Naoki Award-winning author. Life The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiri ...

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* Raicho Hiratsuka * Tano Jōdai, sixth president of Japan Women's University *

Hideko Inouye Hideko Inoue (also Hideko Inouye, ja, 井上秀 6 January 1875 – 19 July 1963) was a Japanese educator and peace activist. She taught home economics at Japan Women's University and served as the first woman president of the school from 1931– ...

, first woman president of Japan Women's University * Shina Inoue Kan *

Tsuruyo Kondo Tsuruyo Kondo (November 16, 1901 – August 9, 1970) was a Japanese politician. Biography Kondo was born in Niimi, Okayama prefecture on November 16, 1901. In 1924 she graduated from the Japan Women's University and began working at two scho ...

, politician * Tomi Kora, politician *

Keiko Matsui , is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music. Biography Keiko Matsui was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Emiko, took her to her first piano lesson in the June following her fifth birthday. Japanese t ...

* Ayame Mizushima, screenwriter *

Yuriko Miyamoto was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's libe ...

Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jo ...

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Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with ''Urusei Yatsura'' in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, where they have ...

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

Toshiko Tamura was the pen-name of an early modern feminist novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Her birth name was . Biography Tamura was born in the plebeian Asakusa district of Tokyo,Esashi, p.37 where her father was a rice broker. At the age of seventeen ...

Access

The closest train stations to the Mejiro Campus are: *

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: About 8 minutes by foot from Zoshigaya Station (exit 3) *

Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

: About 10 minutes by foot from

Gokokuji Station is a subway station in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro. Its station number is Y-11. The station is named after a nearby Buddhist temple of the same name. Lines Gokokuji Station is served by the Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line. St ...

(exit 4)

References

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