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The following is a list of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan. A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. Most of these are private universities ; a few are funded by the prefectural governments; the only two funded by the national government are Nara and Ochanomizu .
Polytechnic schools (職業能力開発校, Shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsukō) in Japan are vocational education institutions for short and long-term programs, a group of public human resources development facilities under paragraph (1) (i) of Article 15-6 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Law. It involves designated private sector as well.
The University of Tokyo was founded as the nation's first university in 1877 by merging Edo-period institutions for higher education.. The modern Japanese higher education system was adapted from a number of methods and ideas inspired from Western education systems that were integrated with their traditional Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucianist pedagogical philosophies that served as the system ...
S. University of the Sacred Heart (Japan) Sagami Women's University; St. Cecilia Women's Junior College; St. Margaret's Junior College; Sakura no Seibo Junior College
"Soka" is a Japanese term meaning "value creation". In 1971, when Daisaku Ikeda founded Soka University, the school established the following founding principles: Be the highest seat of learning for humanistic education. Be the cradle of a new culture. Be a fortress for the peace of humankind.
Although designed for Japanese students, approximately 60 classes are held in English, mainly in the Faculty of International Social Sciences. Each year the university admits approximately 80 foreign students (including short-term exchange students) of high academic and social standing to study in each faculty and graduate school. [citation needed]
The college's predecessor institution, the Jissen Girls' School, was established in Kōjimachi, Tokyo in 1899.The Jissen Women's Educational Institute established the Jissen Women's Educational Institute Junior College (実践女子学園短期大学, Jissen joshi gakuen tanki daigaku) in 1950 when the junior college system was introduced in Japan.
Aeronautical Safety College (administered by Japan Ministry of Land); Hitotsubashi University; National College of Nursing (administered by Japan Ministry of Health); National Fire Fighters' Academy