Doshisha University
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| founding | 1875/1920 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| president | Takashi Matsuoka |
| Students | 28,642 (May 2012) |
| Website | www.doshisha.ac.jp |
The Dōshisha University ( Japanese 同志 社 大学 Dōshisha Daigaku ) is a private university in Kyoto Prefecture , Japan . The number of students is 24,000. Students will be on two campuses distributed (Kyotanabe campus in Kyotanabe and Imadegawa campus in Kyōtoter district Kamigyō-ku ). The Doshisha consists of 9 faculties.
The Dōshisha maintains an extensive exchange program with the Faculty of Japanese Studies at the University of Tübingen .
history
The university was founded by a former samurai Niishima Jō ( 新 島 襄 , 1843-1890). Niishima had secretly escaped from Japan to Boston , Massachusetts in 1864, driven by a desire for a Western education . At that time, travel abroad was strictly forbidden by the government. In Boston he attended Phillips Academy , Amherst College and the Andover Theological Seminary under the name of Joseph Hardy Neeshima . He became the first Japanese citizen to receive academic awards overseas.
When Japan opened up to the West, he returned in 1875, and founded the "Dōshisha English School" ( 同志 社 英 学校 , Dōshisha Eigakkō ) in Kyoto, which eventually also included a law school, an ordinary school and a women's college. The name Dōshisha means "community of equals" in the sense of an association of Protestant co-religionists.
In 1920, Dōshisha had finally grown into an Anglo-American university. During the Second World War , the buildings were renamed with Japanese names and the pro-Western part of the university's history was excluded, but both changes were reversed after the Japanese surrender .
One of the student songs is called Doshisha College Song , composed in 1908 by William Merrell Vories (1880–1964). He used the melody from the " Watch on the Rhine " (by Carl Wilhelm ).
Well-known graduates
- Takako Doi (* 1928), politician
- Masaki Sumitani (* 1975), comedian and wrestler
- Yasutaka Tsutsui (* 1934), science fiction author
- Gunpei Yokoi (1941–1997), game developer
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.doshisha.ac.jp/en/information/overview/president/greeting.html
- ↑ 学生 数 ・ 教員 数 ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Number of students and academic staff (May 2012)), in Japanese: Undergraduates 26,176, Masters courses 1,651, Doctoral courses 468 + 27, Professional degree courses 320. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1. Doshisha College Song ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2012.
Coordinates: 35 ° 1 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 135 ° 45 ′ 38.6 ″ E