Doshisha University
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同志社大学 | |
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Motto: | Veritas liberabit vos (Truth shall make you free) |
Established | Founded 1875, Chartered 1920 |
Type: | Private |
Endowment: | US$1.5 billion (JP¥169.6 billion) |
President: | |
Vice-president: | Nobuhiro Tabata, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Tsutao Katayama, Takashi Nishimura |
Faculty: | 603 full-time, 1032 part-time |
Undergraduates: | 22,433 |
Postgraduates: | 2,256 |
Location | Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan |
Campus: | Urban / Suburban, 530 acres (2.1 km²) |
Colors: | White and Purple |
Nickname: | Dodai (同大 Dōdai?) |
Mascot: | Astro Boy (unofficial and historical) |
Athletics: | 50 varsity teams |
Website: | www.doshisha.ac.jp |
Doshisha University (同志社大学 Dōshisha daigaku?), or Dodai (同大 Dōdai?) is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It has 24,000 students on three campuses, in faculties of theology, letters, law, commerce, economics, policy, and engineering. It also has graduate programs in American studies and policy and management. Tuition and fees average ¥850,000 ($7,000) a year for liberal arts majors, and are higher for science and engineering majors.
It was founded by an ex-samurai named Niijima Jō. Niijima snuck out of Japan in 1864, at the age of twenty-one, and found his way to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended Phillips Academy, Amherst College, and Andover Theological Seminary under the name Joseph Hardy Neesima. After he returned to a Westernizing Japan in 1875, he founded (同志社英学校 Dōshisha eigakkō?) in Kyoto, which eventually incorporated a law school, normal school, and women's college.
By 1920, Doshisha was a full-fledged university in the Anglo-American tradition. During World War II, its buildings were given Japanese names and its curriculum was stripped of its pro-Western elements, but the pre-war conditions were restored after Japan's surrender.
Amherst College has maintained close ties with Doshisha since its founding. Amherst and Doshisha are considered sister schools and have had a long running student and faculty exchange program that was interrupted only by the Second World War. Additionally, Doshisha collaborates with a consortium of prestigious American liberal arts colleges (including Amherst) to host the , an 8-month long study abroad program offered every year to students of American colleges.
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University Presidents
- Joseph Hardy Neesima (1875-1890)
- Yamamoto Kakuma (1890-1892) Samurai, Captain in the Aizu domain's artillery corps, served at the , and later in the Boshin War,
- Hiromichi Kosaki (1892-1897)
- (1897-1899) Deputy prime minister of Ministry of Communication, member of the House of Representatives of Japan.
- Seito Saibara (1899-1902) Establishment of the U.S. Gulf Coast rice industry in Texas., Japanese politician.
- (1902-1904) Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Lower House Speaker.
- Kotaro Shimomura (1904-1907) Chemical engineer, President of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd, Formation of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
- (1907-1920) The University of Hawaii pioneered the study of Japan in the U.S. starting with the appointment of Dr. Tasuku Harada as the first professor of Japanese Studies, Establishment of Institute of Pacific Relations, Yale Divinity School BD 1891, University of Hawaii LLD, University of Edinburgh LLD, Amherst College DD.
- Danjō Ebina (1920-1929)
- (1929-1935) Agricultural scientist, President of Kyushu University.
- (1935-1941) Entomologist, President of International Christian University.
- Toraji Makino (1941-1947)
- Hachiro Yuasa (1947-1950)
- Setsuji Ōtsuka (1950-1963)
- (1963-1985) Kyoto newspaper Chief Executive, meeting with Zhou Enlai, teacher of Japanese economic history in Italy's .
- Naozō Ueno (1975-1985)
- Yoshinori Matsuyama (1985-2001)
- Minoru Ōya (2001-)
Famous faculty
- Sidney Gulick: Educator, Author, and Missionary.
- : Missionary, Colonel of American Civil War.
- J. Martin Holman: Litterateur.
- : Academic economist.
Famous alumni
- : Academic expert in accounting, President of the American Accounting Association, Carnegie Mellon University Professor.
- Choichiro Yatani: Psychologist, The State University of New York Professor.
- Yun Dongju:Korean poet.
- : Writer.
- : Talent, Professor of Tezukayama Gakuin University.
- Chuck Wilson: Fitness coordinator, also known as gaikokujin tarento in Japan.
- : Macromolecular Scientist, Professor of Case Western Reserve University, Visiting Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Mainz, Germany.
- : Vice president and director in Gartner's Research organization, Associate editor for the Journal of Electronics and Engineering.
- : President, ITP Strategic.
- : President, the Haiku Society of America, Professor of Japanese Letters from 1985 to 1991, Visiting Faculty in Literature since 1992, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina. Adjunct Faculty since October 1998, the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- : Conductor, He has honorary doctorates from Edith Cowan University and Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia and is a tenured visiting professor of Japanese studies at China's .
- : President, Piqua Technologies, Inc.
- Abe Iso: Christian socialist in Japan, Chairman of Shakaitaishuto.
- Glenn Horiuchi:The Japanese American pianist and shamisen player.
- :President, Japan Ikebana Art Association.
- : Japanese business studies, the Director of the University of Sheffield's Centre for Japanese Studies.
- : Economist, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis.
- Aki Kuroda: Painter, artist.
- : President of Sho International,Honorary vice-president of Kyoto Calligraphers Association,President of Bokushin Calligraphy School,A member of Kyoto City Art & Culture Foundation,An honorary member of Art & Culture promoting Committee of Shimogyo-ward, Kyoto City,Special instructor of Kyoto Saga Art College.
- : Chancellor of the UH-Hilo campus, Vice president for academic affairs of the State University of New York at Albany.
- Shannon Gilligan: Author of interactive fiction and computer games.
- :President and Founder of Pacific Alliance Group, an investment banking firm specializing in assisting clients in cross border mergers.
- : CEO of Hinaya. inc.
- : Chief of Literature department of National Taiwan University and President of Sophia University .
- : Economist, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
- : Linguistics professor of McMaster University.
- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto: Professional footballer with Gamba Osaka and captain of the Japan national football team
- Masaki Sumitani:Television performer.
- Gunpei Yokoi: Famed Nintendo employee responsible for Metroid, Kid Icarus and the Game Boy, among other creations.
Details
Addresses of campuses
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- Imadegawa-Shinmachi Campus
- Karasuma-Higashiiru Imadegawa-Dori Kamigyo Ward Kyoto City
- Kyotanabe Campus Tsudani Tatara Kyotanabe City,Kyoto-Fu Prefecture
External links
- http://www.doshisha.ac.jp
- Associated Kyoto Program
- Doshisha-Navi
- Doshisha Portal
- Doshisha Alumni Association
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