The University of the Sacred Heart (聖心女子大学, Seishin Joshi Daigaku) is a Japanese private women's university located in Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo.
It was established in 1916 as a special school (senmon gakkō) by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a French Roman Catholic religious order for women. It became a university in 1948 and is one of the oldest women's universities in Japan.
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Departments
The university has one faculty of Liberal Arts, with the following departments:
Department of English Language and Literature
Department of Japanese Language and Literature
Department of History and Social Sciences
Department of Philosophy
Department of Education
It also has a graduate school of arts offering master's degrees and doctorates in these subjects.
Affiliated schools
Sacred Heart School in Tokyo in Shirokane, Minato, Tokyo
International School of the Sacred Heart in Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo
Sapporo Sacred Heart Junior & Senior High School in Chūō-ku, Sapporo
Fuji Sacred Heart Junior & Senior High School in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture
Obayashi Sacred Heart School in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture
Notable alumnae
Eriko Yamatani, politician
Makiko Fujino, politician
Empress Michiko
Sadako Ogata, scholar, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mariko Ōhara, author
Ayako Sono, author
Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Miss International 2012 (first Japanese to do so)
Momoko Abe, Miss Universe Japan 2017