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History

The predecessor of the school, , was founded in 1938 by the

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. It was chartered as a women's four-year college in 1950.

Organization

Undergraduate studies

* Department of Spanish Language and Literature * Department of English Language and Literature * Department of Global Citizenship Studies * Department of Cultural History * Department of Japanese Language and Literature

Graduate School of Humanities

* Master's Program in Language and Culture * Master's Program in Thought and Culture * Master's Program in Global Citizenship Studies * Doctoral Program in Humanities

Research institutes

* Research Institute for Cultural Studies * Research Institute for Christian Culture * Research Institute for Language Education

Campus

Address

3-16-21 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku,

, 141-8642, Japan

Facilities

The university's Italian Renaissance style main building designed by Josiah Conder was built as

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's mansion in 1917.

External links

Official website

References

{{authority control Educational institutions established in 1938 Private universities and colleges in Japan Catholic universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Tokyo Christianity in Tokyo 1938 establishments in Japan Women's universities and colleges in Japan