Doshisha University
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The Dōshisha University (Japanese同志 社 大学Dōshisha Daigaku ) is a private university in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Number of students is 24,000. Students will be on two campuses distributed ( Kyotanabe Campus in Kyotanabe and Imadegawa campus in Kyōtoter municipality Kamigyo -ku ). The Doshisha consists of 9 faculties.
The Dōshisha maintains an extensive exchange program with the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Tübingen.
History
Founded as the University by a former samurai Niishima Jō (新 岛 襄, Eng. Neesima Joseph Hardy, 1843-1890 ). Niishima in 1864, driven by the desire for a Western education, secretly from Japan to Boston, Massachusetts to escape. At that time, a trip abroad by the government was strictly forbidden. In Boston, he attended Phillips Academy, Amherst College and Andover Theological seminary under the name Joseph Hardy Neeshima. He was been awarded for the first Japanese national to overseas academic awards. When Japan opened to the West, he returned in 1875, and founded the Dōshisha elite school (同志 社 英 学校, Dōshisha eigakkō ) in Kyoto, which eventually included a law school, a normal school and a women's college. The name literally means Dōshisha about " the society of people with a common will ."
In 1920 Dōshisha was finally grown to a complete University of Anglo-American tradition. During the Second World War, the building was renamed with Japanese names, and excluded the pro-western portion of the history of the university, both changes were, however, reversed after the Japanese surrender.
One of the student songs is called " Doshisha College Song", sealed in 1908 by William Merrell Vories ( 1880-1964 ). He used the melody of the " Wacht am Rhein " ( by Karl Wilhelm ).
Known graduates
- Takako Doi (* 1928), politician
- Masaki Sumitani ( born 1975 ), comedian and wrestler
- Yasutaka Tsutsui (* 1934), science fiction author
- Gunpei Yokoi (1941-1997), game developer