Sophia University

Sophia University, known as 上智大学 (jōchi daigaku) in Japanese, is a private university, with its main campus located in Yotsuya, an area of Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. It was officially established in 1913 as a special school by the Society of Jesus, and has since grown into a large, and well-reputed university, with over 10,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students across four campuses in the Tokyo area. It takes the name Sophia from the Greek sophus meaning "wisdom." The Japanese name, jōchi daigaku literally means "University of Higher Wisdom."

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Japanese - Yotsuya - Tokyo - Chiyoda Ward - 1913 - Society of Jesus

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The school was first recognized as a university in 1928, but it traces its history all the way back to the arrival of St. Francis Xavier to Japan in 1549. Xavier expressed his interest at the time in his hopes to found a university in the Japanese capital. A statue of Xavier still stands in front of the main building of the Ichigaya campus.

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1928 - St. Francis Xavier - Japan - 1549

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