同志社大学
Doshisha University was founded by an ex-
samurai named
Niishima Jou. 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 English 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 everything returned to normal after Japan's surrender.
Today, Doshisha has 24,000 students on three campuses, in faculties of theology, letters, law, commerce, economics, 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.
www.doshisha.ac.jp