Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Tokyo Woman's Christian University (TWCU) was founded in 1918 when an inauguration ceremony was held accepting seventy-six　women. Since then, TWCU has consistently provided Japanese female students with precious opportunities for higher education based on Christianity putting stress on liberal-arts studies. More than sixty thousand students have graduated and their activities in various fields have made TWCU's reputation solid as one of the leading women's universities in Japan.

On the occasion of university's centenary, we would like to appreciate again the ambitious vision of committed people to establish this prestigious institute of higher education　and to express our deep gratitude for their generous supports and devoted works.

In the next one hundred years, we will remain faithful to the original mission and make efforts to promote it more in accordance with ever changing society and environment surrounding women. Under the principles indicated in TWCU Grand Vision, our undergraduate studies have been developed into "one-faculty and five-department system", which have started from April 2018, the year of our centenary anniversary. To enrich our liberal-arts studies, we have introduced new types of academic contents and education methods in our system, such as problem-based-learning, fieldwork researches, research projects with professional alumnae, and intensive English training courses. TWCU believes that the liberal-arts studies are essential for women to be positive and independent to play significant roles in the twenty-first century. We are always eager to pioneer new frontiers of liberal?arts studies.

TWCU will sincerely and energetically pursue the quest of" Whatever things are true" and keep up the spirit of "Service and Sacrifice".

Tokyo Woman's Christian University's Grand Vision' has been created in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the university as an institute of learning deeply rooted in the spirit of Christianity, and for the purpose of nurturing women who, as cultivated people with professional expertise, are able to make a constructive contribution to society and to humankind as a whole in the 21st century.

TWCU's Grand Vision is:

• To nurture women who, in the spirit of Christianity, can make a constructive contribution towards solving the problems faced by society and humankind as a whole.
• To educate women able to make their way in the globalized, information society of the 21st century, and play a positive role on the international stage.
• To devote great effort to reforming the content and methods of education offered by the university, such as will generate in our students the independent will to learn, and the desire to continue to learn throughout their lives.
• To develop and expand the university's liberal arts education, a field essential for fostering cultivated people with professional expertise, in such a way that it relates to contemporary society.
• To offer support in the field of career designing, in order that our students might establish themselves as women in careers which will sustain them for their entire future.
• To strengthen relationships with stakeholders and society in general, and to become a university which has the approval and support of society as a whole.
• To maintain a good learning environment, and to offer facilities and equipment appropriate for an institute of higher education in contemporary society.
• To strengthen financial support, and expand opportunities for further educational and research programs.