Sophia University

Sophia University (Joachim Daigaku?) might be a non-open Jesuit investigation college in Japan, with its principle field arranged close Yotsuya station, in a some portion of Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. It's stratified mutually of the most elevated non-state funded colleges in Japan. It takes its name from the Greek Sophia which signifies "knowledge". The Japanese name, Jōchi Daigaku, for all intents and purposes recommends that "College of upper Wisdom".

It has a trade program with a few colleges all through the globe, together with Yale University, So pack University and the University of Urban Focus. The college was a men's college inside of the past, however as of now concedes young ladies; the extent of men to ladies is right now extra or less equivalent. Sophia's graduated class are raised as "Sophia's"; they encapsulate the 79th Japanese Prime Minister of Japan, Morihiro Hosokawa, assortment of legislators diagrammatic inside of the Diet of Japan, and teachers at various foundations.

History

Sophia University was upheld by Jesuits in 1913. It opened with divisions of German Literature, Philosophy and Commerce, headed by its organizer Hermann Hoffmann (1864–1937) as its beginning authority president.

In 1932, smooth low bunch of Sophia understudies declined to salute the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine inside of the vicinity of a Japanese attaché, dialect it degraded their otherworldly convictions. The attaché was pulled back from Sophia as aftereffects of this occurrence, harming the college's name. The diocesan of Redo interceded inside of the standoff by permitting Catholic understudies to salute the war dead, once that few Sophia understudies, also as Hermann Hoffmann himself, took part in ceremonies at Yasukuni. The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples later issued the Purees Instanterque in 1936, that propelled Catholics to go to Shinto places of worship as a ultra-nationalistic motion; the Vatican re-issued this archive once the war in 1951.

Sophia University increasing so as to keep on developing the quantities of divisions, school individuals and understudies, moreover to propelling its worldwide center by building up A trade program. A few of its understudies learned at Georgetown University inside of the u. s. as right on time as 1935. Sophia's school was built up in 1973, trailed by the crevice of Sophia junior school in 1976. With the start of the school of subject in 2006, Sophia University in a matter of seconds holds twenty seven offices in its eight universities. Its present president is Yoshiaki Ishizawa. Toshiaki Kobo is leader of its leading body of directors. Subsequent to 2008, the world Leadership Program was begun for undergrads from four Jesuit colleges in East Asia: Atone Diamond State Manila University in the Philippines, Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, So group University in Republic of Korea, and Sophia University in Japan.

Remarkable school

• Gregory Clark, previous scholastic of financial matters; in the blink of an eye a Japan Times patron

• Kuniko Inoguchi, previous scholastic of law, and Permanent Representative of Japan to the Conference on incapacitating in Geneva

• Father Peter Millard, SJ, resigned scholastic of English Literature

• Adak Ogata, previous scholastic of sociology, and previous UN ambassador for Refugees; shortly serving as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)