Japan Women's University (日本女子大学, Nihon joshi daigaku) is the oldest and largest of private Japanese women's universities. The university was established on 20 April 1901 by education reformist Jinzo Naruse [ja].[1]
The university has around 6000 students and 200 faculty. It has two campuses, named after the neighborhoods in which they are located: Mejirodai (目白台) in Bunkyō, Tokyo, and Nishi-Ikuta (西生田) in Tama, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan Women's University was founded by educator Jinzo Naruse in 1901.[1][2] Initially, the university comprised three departments: home economics, Japanese literature, and English literature.[2]
^ ab. www.jwu.ac.jp. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
^ abOmori, Hideko (2013). "Religious Education Leading to Higher Education for Women: Historical Insights on Modern Japan". Religious Education. 108 (5): 529–541. doi:10.1080/00344087.2013.835650. ISSN 0034-4087. S2CID 144844275.
^Schneider, Michael (2007). "Were Women Pan-Asianists the Worst?: Internationalism and Pan-Asianism in the Careers of Inoue Hideko and Inoue Masaji". In Saaler, Sven; Koschmann, J. Victor (eds.). Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders. London, UK: Routledge. p. 125. ISBN978-1-134-19380-6.
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