is a private university in Chuo, Tokyo,

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, formerly called St. Luke's College of Nursing. The school started in 1920 as a high school to educate nurses for the affiliated

St. Luke's International Hospital is a general and teaching hospital located in the Tsukiji district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. First opened in 1902, as a medical mission facility by the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church in the United States, the hospital is now on ...

. It was chartered as a three-year college in 1954 and became a four-year college in 1964. In 1980 and 1988 postgraduate doctoral programs were established, including a

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(DNP) course.

External links

Official website
(in English)

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