Doshisha University

Doshisha University (同志社大学 Dōshisha daigaku?), aswell referred to as Dodai (同大 Dōdai?), is a clandestine university in Kyoto City, Japan. Accustomed in 1875, it is one of the oldest clandestine institutions of college acquirements in Japan, and has about 30,000 acceptance enrolled on four altered campuses in Kyoto. It is one of the Japanese "Global 30" universities and one of the "Kankandoritsu," a accumulation of the four arch clandestine universities in the Kansai arena of western Japan.
Doshisha was founded by Joseph Hardy Neesima as "Doshisha English School", and in 1920 it was accepted university status. The university now encompasses 14 commonsense and 16 alum schools with abundant affiliated institutions including Doshisha Women's College of Avant-garde Arts.Doshisha University was founded in 1875 as Doshisha English Academy by Protestant drillmaster Niijima Jō (also accepted as Joseph Hardy Neesima), as a academy to beforehand Christian apprenticeship in Japan. As a adolescent man, Niijima larboard Japan for the United States in 1864, admitting the ban on across biking again imposed on Japanese nationals. He advised at Phillips Academy and Amherst College, and alternate to Japan in 1874. The next year, Niijima accustomed the Doshisha Academy with the abetment of Canadian Methodist missionary G. G. Cochran. Niijima served as admiral of the university from 1875 to 1890. Other aboriginal university presidents included drillmaster and columnist Yamamoto Kakuma (1890–1892), Seito Saibara (1899–1902) who was the aboriginal Christian affiliate of the Japanese Diet, and arresting actinic architect Kotaro Shimomura (1904-1907).
By 1920, Doshisha was accepted university cachet and developed into a full-fledged university in the Anglo-American bookish tradition. During World War II, its barrio were accustomed Japanese names and its class was bare of its pro-Western elements. The prewar altitude were adequate afterwards the abandonment of Japan. The aboriginal alum amount programs were instituted in 1953.
Amherst College has maintained a abutting accord with Doshisha University, and back 1972, Doshisha has collaborated with a bunch of American avant-garde arts colleges including Amherst to host the Associated Kyoto Program, an 8-month continued abstraction away affairs offered every year to acceptance from American colleges and universities. Doshisha aswell houses the Kyoto Bunch for Japanese Studies, addition affairs affiliated with American universities and centered on avant-garde Japanese accent training.Doshisha University has two capital campuses at Imadegawa in axial Kyoto and at Kyotanabe in southern Kyoto. Imadegawa is the capital campus, amid in the above abode of Satsuma Domain. It has been in use back the academy was founded. Amid in the centermost of Kyoto City, the campus is anchored next to Shōkoku-ji, overlooking Kyoto Imperial Palace. Five barrio in the Imadegawa campus accept been appointed as Important Cultural Properties of Japan, including Doshisha Chapel and Clark Memorial Hall. This campus is primarily for the avant-garde arts, business (including a alum academy of business), theology, and law faculties. A ample acquirements commons　with over 40,000 aboveboard meters of space, the Ryoshinkan, was opened in 2012 and included the assimilation of Imadegawa Station, a base on the Karasuma Line of the Kyoto Municipal Subway