Showa Women's University


Showa Women's University is a women's private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. It also contains affiliated schools with all levels from kindergarten to high school.

History

Japan Women's School of Higher Education, the predecessor of this university, was established by poet Enkichi Hitomi, who gathered together his intelligentsia friends that sympathized with the minds of those fashionable idols at the time, notably Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Organisation

Graduate programs

The Hitomi Kinen Kōdō on the university campus is famous for its great acoustics and has been used for many classical concerts with many famous conductors. Since the opening of Suntory Hall at Akasaka in central Tokyo in October 1986, the number of such prominent concerts have decreased, but it is still sometimes used for concerts open to the public.

Primary and secondary schools on campus

University-affiliated
British School in Tokyo Showa Campus is located in Building 5.

Notable people