is a private

women's university A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. In the United States, almost all women's colleges are private undergraduate institutions, with many offering coeducational graduate programs. In other countri ...

based at Kodaira,

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious higher educational institutions for women in Japan, contributing to the advancement of women in society for more than a century.

History

The university was founded in 1900 by

Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator and a pioneer in education for women in Meiji period Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tsuda Umeko" in . Originally named Tsuda Ume, with ''ume'' referring to the Japanese plum, she went by the name Ume Tsuda w ...

as Joshi Eigaku Juku. The name was changed to Tsuda Eigaku Juku in 1933, then to Tsuda Juku Senmon Gakko, and finally Tsuda Juku Daigaku (Tsuda College) in 1948. From April 2017 Tsuda was renamed, in English, to Tsuda University consisting of two colleges. * The College of Liberal Arts at Kodaira Campus, Tokyo * The College of Policy Studies at Sendagaya Campus, Tokyo

Notable alumnae

Taki Fujita Taki Fujita (藤田たき) (23 December 1898 – 4 January 1993) was a Japanese educator and activist for women's rights. Fujita was president of Tsuda College from 1962 to 1972. Early life and education Fujita was born in Nagoya, and raised ...

, 4th president of Tsuda College (1962–1972) * Kumiko Haba, political scientist, international relations * Michiko Inukai, author * Ichiko Kamichika, politician * Mieko Kamiya, psychiatrist * Mitsuyo Kusano, newscaster *

Yoriko Madoka is a Japanese politician of the Kokumin Ikari no Koe who served in the House of Councillors from 1993 to 2010. Madoka was born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa and grew up in Yao, Osaka and Takamatsu, Kagawa. She graduated from Tsuda College in 1969, an ...

, politician * Yoko Matsuoka McClain, Japanese language and literature professor *

Chie Nakane was a Japanese anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Tokyo. Education and career Nakane was born in Tokyo and spent her teenage years in Beijing. She graduated from Tsuda College in 1947 and then comp ...

, first-appointed female professor of Tokyo University *

Tomoko Namba is a Japanese entrepreneur, and the former CEO of DeNA Co., Ltd. She is Vice-Chair of the Japan Business Federation. In 1999 she founded DeNA, one of Japan's largest mobile social network and mobile game companies. She transitioned from CE ...

, founder and former CEO of DeNA Co., Ltd. *

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney ( ja, 大貫恵美子 born 1934) is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and ...

, anthropologist * Natsuko Toda, translator * Akiko Yamanaka, politician *

Noriko Yui Noriko Yui is a professor of mathematics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Career A native of Japan, Yui obtained her B.S. from Tsuda College, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1974 under the supervision of Ri ...

, mathematician List of Notable Alumnae

Faculty

* Anna Cope Hartshorne * Yoshi Kasuya *

Julie Beth Lovins Julie Beth Lovins (October 19, 1945, in Washington, D.C. – January 26, 2018, in Mountain View, California) was a computational linguist who published the The Lovins Stemming Algorithm - a type of stemming algorithmfor word matching - in 1968. T ...

* Kawai Michi *

Elizabeth Gray Vining Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (October 6, 1902 – November 27, 1999) was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book '' ...

Tetsuro Watsuji was a Japanese historian and moral philosopher. Early life Watsuji was born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture to a physician. During his youth he enjoyed poetry and had a passion for Western literature. For a short time he was the coeditor of a lite ...

External links

Tsuda University English website

References

Private universities and colleges in Japan Women's universities and colleges in Japan Kodaira, Tokyo 1900 establishments in Japan Educational institutions established in 1900 Universities and colleges in Tokyo {{tokyo-university-stub