Doshisha University

Doshisha University (同志社大学 Dôshisha Daigaku) 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 Niishima Jou(Joseph Hardy Neesima). Niishima 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 Neeshima. After he returned to a Westernizing Japan in 1875, he founded the Doshisha Elite School 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 maintaned 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 Associated Kyoto Program, an 8-month long study abroad program offered every year to students at American colleges.

President of University

Famous Alumni

• Yuji Ijiri: 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.
• David Zoppetti:writer.
• Jeffrey L Bergland:Talent, Professor of Tezukayama Gakuin University.
• Chuck Wilson:Fitness coordinator.
• Hatsuo Ishida:Macromolecular Scientist, Professor of Case Western Reserve University ,Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institut fur Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany.
• Nagayoshi Nakano:Vice president and director in Gartner's Research organization, Associate editor for the Journal of Electronics and Engineering.
• Nobukatsu Abe:President, ITP Strategic.
• Hiroaki Sato: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, at Amherst.
• Toshu Fukami :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 Zhujiang University.
• Toshu Fukami :President, Piqua Technologies, Inc.
• Abe Iso : Christian socialist in Japan, Chairman of Shakaitaishuto.
• Glenn Horiuchi:The Japanese American pianist and shamisen player.
• Senei Ikenobo :President, Japan Ikebana Art Association.
• Harukiyo Hasegawa :Japanese business studies, the Director of the University of Sheffield's Centre for Japanese Studies.
• Hiromitsu Kaneda :Economist, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis.

Details

Addresses of campuses

• Imadegawa-Shinmachi Campus
  • Karasuma-Higashiiru Imadegawa-Dori Kamigyo Ward Kyoto City

External links

• http://www.doshisha.ac.jp
• http://www.associatedkyotoprogram.org