The University of the Sacred Heart (聖心女子大学, Seishin Joshi Daigaku) is a Japanese private women's university located in Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo.
It was established in 1916 as a special school (senmon gakkō) by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a French Roman Catholic religious order for women. It became a university in 1948 and is one of the oldest women's universities in Japan.
Departments
The university has one faculty of Liberal Arts, with the following departments:
- Department of English Language and Literature
- Department of Japanese Language and Literature
- Department of History and Social Sciences
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Education
It also has a graduate school of arts offering master's degrees and doctorates in these subjects.
Affiliated schools
- Sacred Heart School in Tokyo in Shirokane, Minato, Tokyo
- International School of the Sacred Heart in Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo
- Sapporo Sacred Heart Junior & Senior High School in Chūō-ku, Sapporo
- Fuji Sacred Heart Junior & Senior High School in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture
- Obayashi Sacred Heart School in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture
Notable alumnae
- Eriko Yamatani, politician
- Makiko Fujino, politician
- Empress Michiko
- Sadako Ogata, scholar, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Mariko Ōhara, author
- Ayako Sono, author
- Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Miss International 2012 (first Japanese to do so)[1]
- Momoko Abe, Miss Universe Japan 2017
References
- 1."Japanese Beauty Queen in Storm Over Sex Slaves Remarks". The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2014-04-22.