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Special Exhibition at the Women’s Archives Center 2008

　The Women’s Archives Center at NWEC holds its first special exhibition entitled "Dawn of Higher Education for Japanese Women : lives of women founders" from 10 October to 23 December 2008.
　The exhibition introduces five women founders of women’s universities and shows the early history of higher education for women in Japan.
　Five women, namely SHIMODA Utako (a founder of Jissen Women's University), TSUDA Umeko (Tsuda College）, YOSHIOKA Yayoi (Tokyo Women's Medical University), NIKAIDO Tokuyo (Japan Women’s College of Physical Education) and KAGAWA Aya (Kagawa Nutrition University) founded private institutions of higher education for women in the early twentieth century, when higher education for women was overwhelmingly regarded as premature or useless.
　The exhibition traces the lives and times of these women and tries to find out why and how they founded institutions of higher education for women.

  • Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00 from 10 October to 23 December 2008
  • Admission: Free
  • Exhibits (examples):

　　* Jissen Women’s University : Letter from ITO Hirobumi to Utako
　　* Tsuda College : Tsuda English Readers (English textbook)
　　* Tokyo Women's Medical University : Roentgen therapy at Tokyo Women’s
　　　 Medical　School (photograph)
　　* Japan Women’s College of Physical Education : Gymnastic class (photograph)
　　* Kagawa Nutrition University : Trial models of measuring cup and spoons
　　　 by Aya

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