Sophia University

Sophia University

Sophia University is a private Jesuit exploration college in Japan, with its primary grounds situated close Yotsuya station, in a region of Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. It is positioned as one of the top private colleges in Japan. It takes its name from the Greek Sophia signifying "astuteness". The Japanese name, Jōchi Daigaku, actually signifies "College of Higher Wisdom". 

It has a trade program with numerous colleges all through the world, including Yale University, Sogang University and the University of Hong Kong. The college was a men's college before, yet at present concedes ladies; the extent of men to ladies is currently pretty much equivalent. Sophia's graduated class are alluded to as "Sophians"; they incorporate the 79th Japanese Prime Minister of Japan, Morihiro Hosokawa, various government officials spoke to in the Diet of Japan, and educators at different organizations. 

History 

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

In 1932, a little gathering of Sophia understudies declined to salute the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in the nearness of a Japanese military attache, saying it damaged their religious convictions. The military attache was pulled back from Sophia as a consequence of this episode, harming the college's notoriety. The Archbishop of Tokyo mediated in the standoff by allowing Catholic understudies to salute the war dead, after which numerous Sophia understudies, and in addition Hermann Hoffmann himself, partook in rituals at Yasukuni. The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples later issued the Pluries Instanterque in 1936, which urged Catholics to go to Shinto places of worship as an enthusiastic motion; the Vatican re-issued this archive after the war in 1951. 

Sophia University kept on developing by expanding the quantities of divisions, employees and understudies, notwithstanding propelling its worldwide center by setting up a trade program. A number of its understudies learned at Georgetown University in the United States as ahead of schedule as 1935. Sophia's lesser school was set up in 1973, trailed by the opening of Sophia Community College in 1976. With the establishing of the Faculty of Liberal Arts in 2006, Sophia University in a matter of seconds holds 27 offices in its eight resources. Its present president is Yoshiaki Ishizawa. Toshiaki Koso serves as leader of its top managerial staff. Since 2008, the Global Leadership Program was begun for understudies from four Jesuit colleges in East Asia: Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, Sogang University in South Korea, and Sophia University in Japan. 

Grounds 

Sophia's fundamental grounds, at Yotsuya, is urban, comprising of approximately 25 huge, present day structures in the focal point of Tokyo, the world's biggest city. The lion's share of Sophia's 10,000 college understudies invest about all their energy here. The resources of Humanities, Law, Foreign Studies, Economics, Liberal Arts, and Science and Technology have their home here, as do the principle library, cafeteria, exercise room, church, book shop, and workplaces. In April 2006, the Faculty of Comparative Culture (FCC), which had been situated at the littler Ichigaya grounds, moved to the fundamental Yotsuya grounds and changed its name to the Faculty of Liberal Arts. About the greater part of Sophia's remote trade understudies learn at FLA. 

The Tokyo office of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), the understudy trade association, which administers generally 50% of the global understudies, is likewise taking into account the primary Yotsuya Campus. The Shakujii (Tokyo) grounds houses the Faculty of Theology. The Hadano grounds in Kanagawa Prefecture is home to the Sophia Junior College, and in addition various workshop corridors and sports edifices.