is a

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in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku,

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. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national

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is the name of a

neighborhood where the university was founded.

History

The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's

neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School". The original campus was destroyed in the

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; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the

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neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.Those newly finished school buildings are documented in the digital photo archive: . It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a

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under Japan's ''National University Corporation Act'' in 2004. Its faculties of graduate schools with Home Economics (master's program), Humanities and Science (doctoral program), started respectively in 1963 and 1976, and they were reorganized into the Graduate School of Humanities and Science starting in 1997 with master's research courses in humanities, science, and home economics. Since 2007, the Graduate School was positioned to lead and strengthen education and research when they reorganized Graduate School of Humanities and Science to the Institute for Human Life Innovation and the Institute for Education and Human Development.

Affiliated institutions

Ochanomizu's campus also contains a number of schools for pre-university students affiliated with the university: Ochanomizu Kindergarten, Ochanomizu Elementary, Ochanomizu Junior High School, and Ochanomizu High School.

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* * {{authority control Japanese national universities Educational institutions established in 1875 Women's universities and colleges in Japan Bunkyō 1875 establishments in Japan Universities and colleges in Tokyo