Tohoku Gakuin University

Tohoku Gakuin University

The Main Gate and the Main Building (Tsuchitoi Campus)
Motto	Life Light Love
Type	Private
Established	Founded 1886, Chartered 1949
President	Nozomu Hoshimiya
Undergraduates	12,414 (2007)
Postgraduates	242 (2007)
Location	Sendai , Miyagi , Japan
Campus	Urban
Mascot	None
Website	www.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp/en/index.html

Tohoku Gakuin University (東北学院大学, Tōhoku Gakuin Daigaku) is a

missionaries.

Times Higher Education places Tohoku Gakuin University in the 150+ bracket in its ranking of Japan's 200 best universities.^[1]

History

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The university was founded in 1886 (

became the seminary's first president. In 1891, the school was renamed Tohoku Gakuin (東北學院, Tōhoku gakuin) and a course for non-Christian students was added.

The first president Oshikawa resigned in 1901 and was succeeded by David Bowman Schneder (1857–1938). In 1904, college courses were added and authorized by the Specialized School Order. The college at first had two Departments: Letters, Theology. In 1918, Normal School and the Department of Commerce were added. In 1926, the main building (still used today) was built in Tsuchitoi Campus. Schneder left the college due to age, but even in his last days he had strong faith and gave the sermon titled "I am not ashamed of the gospel" (1936, the 50th anniversary of the school).

During World War II, the college was virtually forced to stop functioning and Tohoku Gakuin College of Aeronautical Engineering (東北學院航空工業專門學校, Tōhoku gakuin kōkū kōgyō senmon gakkō) was established instead (1944–1947).

After the war, following education reforms in Japan, it was reorganized into the Tohoku Gakuin University in 1949.

Undergraduate Faculties

• Letters (in Tsuchitoi Campus, Aoba-ku, Sendai)
• Economics (in Tsuchitoi Campus)
• Business Administration
  (in Tsuchitoi Campus)
• Law (in Tsuchitoi Campus)
• Tagajo
  Campus)
• Liberal Arts (in Izumi Campus, Izumi-ku
  , Sendai)

Graduate schools

• Letters
• Economics
• Business Administration
• Law (including Law School)
• Engineering
• Human Informatics (in Izumi Campus)

Notable alumni

• Tōru Doi (Member of the lower house)
• Takayuki Kishi (Professional baseball player)
• Takeshi Koike (Announcer for Aomori Broadcasting Corporation)
• Kazuko Kōri (Member of the lower house)
• Takeo Mabashi (Basketball coach)
• Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (Composer, singer)
• Masashi Nakano (Member of the lower house, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry cabinet minister)
• Shunrō Oshikawa (Science fiction author)
• Norio Sasaki (Composer)
• Kyōka Suzuki (Actress)
• Kenichi Takahashi (Professional basketball player)
• Yūji Takahashi (Announcer for Iwate Menkoi Television)
• Kōichi Yamadera (voice actor
  and actor)

References

External links

• Official Website

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