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, Japan, established in 1988. The university is linked to the Keisen School for Young Women, founded in 1929 by Michi Kawai, the National Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Associations of Japan.

Philosophy

Keisen University follows an educational philosophy based on the following three sets of values: * Christianity:
Respect for human's individualities and attention to other person without discrimination of race and class. * International Peace Studies:
Improve Japanese women's knowledge of the world, get rid of prejudice and face problems. * Horticulture:
The love of nature, the respect for all the living things and the learning of the basic morals.

Faculties and Departments

Faculty of Humanities

* Department of Japanese Language and Culture * Department of English Communication

Faculty of Human and Social Studies

* Department of International Social Studies * Department of Psychology and Horticulture

Graduate school

* Graduate School of Humanities-Division of Cultural Coexistence This division's main focus is on Japanese-Language education and multicultural coexistence studies. Study programmes include Japanese language teaching and education, gender and culture studies, minority and culture studies and multicultural communication. * Graduate School of Human and Social Studies-Division of Peace Studies

Facilities

Chapel

The chapel offers regular services, as well as music of pipe organ. There is a Christian center under the chapel. Sometimes, they have some chapel concerts for students and the local community.

Educational Farm

There is a large farm called "Farm for education" where various vegetables and flowers are cultivated. All first year " Freshman" students take a compulsory horticulture class, where they learn to grow vegetables and flowers.

Herb Garden

There are many kinds of herbs. Students can pick herbs and sometimes drink

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s. The herb garden is also a popular spot where students can eat lunch.

International links

In addition to 'study-abroad' programs in California, Thailand, England and Australia, Keisen University has educational links with the following institutions: * North Western College （Iowa, USA） * Silla University （Busan, Korea） *

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（Chiang Mai, Thailand）

Notable alumni and teachers

* Michi Kawai, founder. *

Noyuri Otsuka Noyuri Otsuka (1924 - 31 December 2019) was a Japanese Christian scholar and researcher. Biography Otsuka was born in Tokyo in 1924. Her father, Tomiyoshi Otsuka, was a pastor and the founder of the Apostolic Church. Otsuka graduated from Tokyo ...

, Honorary professor of Keisen University, Japan. Christian writer and researcher.

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, actress, alumnus of Junior College English literature department. * Rieko Hara, alumnus of Faculty of Humanities. *

Sasagu Arai is a Japanese researcher of early Christianity and Gnosticism. Arai is a Doctor of Theology Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University, and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in ...

, Professor of Theology *

Masami Ohinata Masami Ohinata is a Japanese academic and president of Keisen University is a private women's college in Tama, Tokyo, Japan, established in 1988. The university is linked to the Keisen School for Young Women, founded in 1929 by Michi Kawai, the ...

, professor of Department of Human Life and Environment Studies. * Kenji Kawashima, professor of Department of International Social Studies. * Yuichi Yoshikawa, professor and translator. *

Satoshi Fujita is a Japanese horticulturalist and professor of the Human Environmental Science Department at Keisen University. He appears as a gardening tipster on the NHK TV show ', which entered its 5th season in 2012. He is an alumnus of the graduate sch ...

, professor of horticulture and regular NHK presenter.

References

External links

Keisen University official website
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