University of the Sacred Heart (Japan)
University of the Sacred Heart (Seishin Joshi Daigaku) is a private Catholic women’s university in Tokyo, Japan. Located in the Hiroo area of Shibuya, it sits on an urban campus. The school was founded in 1916 as a senmon gakkō (special school) by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a French Catholic religious order for women. It became a university in 1948, making it one of Japan’s oldest women’s universities. The motto is Ubi caritas, ibi Deus (Where there is love, there is God).
The university has about 2,000 undergraduate students and 100 postgraduates, taught by 67 academic staff. It has a Faculty of Liberal Arts and a Graduate School of Arts offering master’s and doctoral degrees. It is affiliated with the Society of the Sacred Heart.
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