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girls

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founded on November 6, 1884, in

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by Martha J. Cartmell, a

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missionary from

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History

Originally begun in 1884 with two students, an

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

was added in 1888, and a

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in 1889. The school expanded to include a

kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cen ...

class in 1914, a dormitory, kindergarten building, and a house for the Methodist missionaries in 1932, and a brand new building for the school in 1933.Se
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, the (meaning "English") in was changed to , meaning "eternal" or "eternity", in 1941. The name was changed back in 1946.Se
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and camp was established in 1970 at

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. In 1986, the junior college was moved to a campus in

Midori-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 176,038 and a density of 6,900 persons per km2. The total area was 25.42 km2. Geography Midori Ward is locat ...

, the attached women's university became a four-year college in 1989, and opened its graduate school in 1993.Se
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Schools

* Toyo Eiwa University * Tōyō Eiwa Girls' Junior & Senior High School * Tōyō Eiwa Girls' Primary School * Tōyō Eiwa Kindergarten (co-ed) * Tōyō Eiwa University Kaede Kindergarten (co-ed), located in

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Notable graduates

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, legislator *

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, photojournalist *

Katayama Hiroko Katayama Hiroko (片山広子 born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957) was a Japanese poet and translator. She did many translations of Irish writers under the pseudonym Matsumura Mineko. Her husband was a noted bureaucrat. She reporte ...

, translator and mentor to Hanako Muraoka *

Byakuren Yanagiwara Byakuren Yanagiwara (, ''Yanagiwara Byakuren''; October 15, 1885 – February 22, 1967) was a Japanese poet and novelist. She is best known for the Byakuren incident. She is one of the Three Beauties of Taishō period. Life Akiko Yanagiwara ...

, writer and confidante of Hanako Muraoka *

Hanako Muraoka was a Japanese novelist and translator. She is best known for translating ''Anne of Green Gables'' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery into Japanese. Early life and education Muraoka was born on June 21, 1893, in Kōfu, Kofu, Yamanashi ...

,History of Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin
Accessed April 29, 2018. translator into Japanese of the ''

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'' novels and other Western literature *Junko Endo, wife of

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*Fumiko Higashikuni, picture book writer and member of

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, television personality *Eri Muraoka, daughter of Haruko Muraoka *

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, violist *

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, fashion designer * Mieko Yagi, equestrian *

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, fencer *

Mieko Takamine (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer. Biography Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film ''Kimi yo takarak ...

, actress *

Keiko Han is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She sang the theme songs in productions, such as '' Story of the Alps: My Annette'' and '' The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island''. She is a fortune teller of western horoscopes. She ...

, voice actress *

Hanako Oshima is a Japanese singer and the daughter of actress Yukiko Kashiwagi and singer Kyu Sakamoto. Biography Oshima was born in Tokyo, and is a graduate of Toyo Eiwa University. When she was 11 years old, her father, Kyu Sakamoto, was killed in the A ...

, singer *

Miho Ohwada is a Japanese actress. She previously represented by the talent agency Staff-plus. Biography Miho Owada is the daughter of Kumiko Okae (1956–2020), an actress and television presenter, and , an actor. She graduated from the Toyo Eiwa Junior ...

, actress

Fictional references

* Rei Hino, also known as ''Sailor Mars'' in the

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series ''

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'', attends T*A Girls Academy, a private

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, which is based on Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin.

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