About Us

Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts was founded in 1876 in Kyoto by the founders of Doshisha, Joseph Hardy Neesima, his wife Yae, and the American missionary A.J. Starkweather. With a tradition based on Christianity, Internationalism, and Liberal Arts, as well as a flexible, transformative history, today, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts is a comprehensive women's university with 6,100 students in 6 faculties, 11 departments, 1 advanced course and 5 graduate schools on the Kyotanabe and Imadegawa campuses.