Kyoritsu Women's University

Since the founding of the Kyoritsu Women’s Occupational Institute in 1886, we have maintained our primary goal of supporting self-reliance for women. In line with this educational philosophy, we continue to improve the educational environment: smoothing registration procedures, providing a unified liberal arts program in all faculties and departments, and promoting specialized professional education.

Bearing in mind our founding principle of self-reliance, we have always had a clear vision of the type of education we wish to provide and the types of graduates we hope to produce. Via a well-thought-out curriculum and ever-improving course content and teaching, we are seeing these aims realized. We also offer significant financial assistance and career advice to our students.

The demographic challenge of our times has its influence on higher education. Hereafter we must maintain a stable financial base for the university system, promote communication between our students and all who have a stake in the university’s role, and preserve our rightful place as a progressive social institution.

Kyoritsu Women's University consists of four faculties: Home Economics, Arts and Letters, International Studies and Nursing. Kyoritsu Women's Junior College consists of two departments: Science of Living and Language and Literature. We have about five thousand at the university, and about a five hundred at the junior college.

Although our urban campus area is limited, we have active faculty members who cover broad academic fields in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

Our campus is situated in the center of Tokyo, just between the Imperial Palace and the world-famous secondhand-bookstore town of Jimbocho, a few minutes’ walk from each. It is an invigorating place to study and to reflect on Japan and the world, ancient and modern.

With the development of information technology, the world is getting smaller and smaller. We are required to be good citizens not only of the countries we belong to but also of the world, and that is the meaning of being international. To be international is to have an international mind. But it is our experience that develops our minds.

We are aiming to further friendship and understanding with foreign countries through practical actions as well as through academic studies.We hope our university system will be known throughout the world as one of the most excellent women's educational institutions.