is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi,

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 ...

History

The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the Reformed Church in the United States in

with the assistance of missionaries Masayoshi Oshikawa and William Edwin Hoy in 1886. It was expanded into a high school in 1911, and chartered as a university in 1946.

Organization

Undergraduate

*Faculty of Arts **Department of English **Japanese Literature Department **Department of Human Culture **Psychology Department of Behavioral Sciences **Music department **Food and Nutrition Department **Life and Culture Department of Design **Department of clinical development **International Culture Department **Children's Department of Education

Graduate

*Humanities Graduate School of Humanities **English, Department of English and American Literature **Japanese Language and Literature Department **Human Culture Department **Life and Culture Design Department **Health and Nutrition Studies

Alumni

* Toshiko Abe - politician * Sayaka Ando - gravure idol

References

External links

Official website
Educational institutions established in 1886 Christian universities and colleges in Japan Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Miyagi Prefecture Women's universities and colleges in Japan Buildings and structures in Sendai 1886 establishments in Japan {{miyagi-university-stub