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women's college in Shinagawa,

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History

The predecessor of the school, , was founded in 1938 by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 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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Shimazu Tadashige's mansion in 1917.

External links

Official website

References

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