is a private university in Nagaoka, Niigata,

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. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1905. In 1971, the institution was reorganized as the Nagaoka Women's Junior College and in 1973 was chartered as a coeducational junior college. One of the first teachers of the Women's College was

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. In 2001 it became a four-year college.

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