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Otsuma Women's University

東京都, Italy

Otsuma Women's University

Otsuma Women's University (大妻女子大学, Ōtsuma-joshi-daigaku) is a private university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1949, it is located in Sanbanchō, near the Imperial Palace in the Chiyoda City. It began as a sewing school opened by Otsuma Kotaka (1884–1970) in 1908. From this grew the Otsuma Gir

ls' High School (1935) and the Otsuma Women's Vocational School (1942). Otsuma Kotaka (大妻コタカ) was a pioneer of traditional women's education, emphasizing scientific training in homemaking skills. For almost twenty years the university specialized in home economics and became synonymous with the education of 'good wives and wise mothers' (良妻賢母, ryōsai-kenbo). An adjacent two-year junior college was established in 1950. In 1967 the university expanded with establishment of a Faculty of Language and Literature and construction of a second campus in Sayamadai, Saitama. Two hitherto independent girls' middle and high schools (Otsuma Nakano and Otsuma Ranzan) were also affiliated. In 1990 a third campus and a fourth affiliated high school were opened in Tama, Tokyo. Like many other women's universities in Japan, Otsuma has faced the challenge of a rapidly changing job market for women. In the...

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