Sophia University

Sophia University (Japanese上智 大学, Jochi Daigaku; Latin: Universitas Sedes Sapientiae ) is a Japanese private university in church-run. It is located in Kioi -chō, Chiyoda, Tokyo (nearest station Yotsuya ).

History

Already in the 16th century, the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier evaluated the character of Japanese high and wrote a letter to Rome with the hope of a university in the Japanese capital.

A request of Pope Pius X. following were appointed by the General Government three Jesuits in Japan. On October 18, 1908 Joseph Dahlmann, SJ came with Henri Boucher, former head of a Jesuit academy in Shanghai, and the American James Rockliff, a trained in Austria native of England and former Superior of the Jesuits in a province in the United States, in Yokohama. In 1911 she established the legal foundation and the school authorities " Jochi Gakuin ". 1913 was the official founding of the college as Jochi Daigaku, later Sophia College, on the basis of specialist Schuler passage by Hermann Hoffmann SJ. 1928 acquired this also state recognition of university status because of the university decree. In 2004 outweigh the students, but found the introduction of coeducation delayed until 1957 instead.

The name Sophia in 1926 from the Seat of Wisdom ( Seat of Wisdom ) derived the Litany of Loreto (the basic meaning of Sophia in Greek " wisdom of God "). The first rector was the German philosopher Hermann Hoffmann SJ.

The Sophia University has produced talents that shone as Prime Minister, in international organizations and journalism. In the Japanese private universities it has won a permanent position. The university entrance exams she stands third after Waseda and Keio University, va for the "wisdom in the English language" it is well known.

Until 1948, the Sophia University was the responsibility of the Lower German Province of the Jesuits, since the newly formed Japanese Vice Province of the Order. The Archdiocese of Cologne under Cardinal Joseph Frings funded in the 1950s further expansion of the University, as well as the German government under Konrad Adenauer as well as companies such as Volkswagen, Zeiss and Krupp.

Organization

Approximately 1,500 university lecturers teach on four campuses ( Yotsuya, Mejiro Seibo, Ichigaya, Shakujii ) over 12,000 students from over 27 different nations in Bachelor, Master and PhD programs. The university has a Japanese-language and an English-speaking campus. In the Japanese campus faculties of foreign languages ​​make up the largest share. So there alone for three faculties German: German language, German literature and German. With 148 partner institutions in 35 countries, it is a very internationally minded university.

Rectors were:

Faculties

  • Shakuji campus, nearest railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Musashiseki - line: theology
  • Philosophy
  • Human Sciences
  • Law
  • Economics
  • Foreign languages
  • Liberal Arts (until 2006 Comparative Cultural Studies)
  • Science and Technology

Graduate Division

  • Department of Theology
  • Philosophy Department
  • Literary Department
  • Department of Liberal Arts ( founded in 2005 )
  • Legal department
  • Economics Department
  • Department of Foreign Languages
  • Department of Natural Sciences and Technology

Known high school teachers

  • Kuniko Inoguchi: Professor of Law, Permanent Representative of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and Minister of State for gender equality and Minister of State for Youth Affairs and measures against the declining birthrate
  • Klaus Luhmer SJ (1916-2011): Professor of Education, rector of Sophia University
  • Adolfo Nicolás SJ ( b. 1936 ), from 1971 to 2002 professor of systematic theology; Since 2008, Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit Order )
  • Sadako Ogata: former professor of political science and former United Nations Commissioner for Refugees
  • Ludvik Armbruster SJ Professor of Philosophy
  • Klaus Riesenhuber SJ Professor of Philosophy

Known graduates

  • Yoshitaka Asama, screenwriter and director of many films such as Twilight Samurai
  • Hideo Saito, composer
  • Agnes Chan, singer
  • Nishida Hikaru, singer undSchauspielerin
  • Hayami Yū, Actress, Anime spokeswoman
  • Inoue Hisashi (1934-2010), writer
  • Saori Kumi, writer
  • Kensuke Ebata, Japan correspondent for Jane's Defense Weekly ( an expert on foreign policy, military and defense policy)
  • Takayuki Tatsumi, American literary critic, science fiction critic, Professor of Keio University
  • Morihiro Hosokawa (* 1938), 79th Prime Minister of Japan
  • Yuriko Nishiyama, manga author, such as Harlem Beat
  • Robert Whiting, writer (Japanese culture), for example, The Chrysanthemum and the Bat on Japanese Baseball
  • Crystal Kay ( born 1986 ), singer
  • Koichi Mashimo (* 1952), Anime Director
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