is a

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in Aoba-ku,

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Tohoku Gakuin University is a private university in Sendai, Miyagi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1886 under the influence of the Reformed Church in the United States, German Reformed Church missionaries. Miyagi Gakuin Women's University is its sist ...

is its brother school.

History

The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the

Reformed Church Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyterian, ...

in the

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with the assistance of missionaries

Masayoshi Oshikawa Masayoshi Oshikawa (押川方義; 1850–1928) was a Japanese evangelist, political activist and founder and first president of Tohoku Gakuin University. Early life and education Masayoshi Oshikawa was born in 1850 in Iyo Province (current Ehi ...

and

William Edwin Hoy William Edwin Hoy (June 4, 1858 – March 3, 1927) was a Protestant missionary and educator in Japan and China. Early life and education William Edwin Hoy was born near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania and graduated Franklin and Marshall College in 18 ...

in 1886, and later by the American missionary Sadie Lea Weidner. 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

Affiliated schools

* Miyagi Gakuin Junior & Senior High School *Miyagi Gakuin Kindergarten

Alumni

Toshiko Abe Toshiko Abe (阿部俊子, Abe Toshiko; born 19 May 1959) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, House of Representatives in the Diet of Japa ...

- politician * Sayaka Ando - gravure idol

References

External links

Official website
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