Nara Women’s University

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Nara Women's University provides students with a relaxed home environment. The relatively small size of our university means that students and professors alike can get to know each other personally and support is readily at hand when needed. On top of this, Nara Women's University offers modern university's facilities only minutes away from Nara Station and yet surrounded by Nara's cultural heritage's picturesque tranquility. It is even common to see deer wandering through the university grounds. Located at the Easternmost tip of the Silk Road, Nara has a long history of cultural exchange with Asia and the rest of the world. As a result of this history, students can relax after a hard day's study by taking a walk through the nearby Nara Park or even visiting one of Nara's many World Heritage sites such as Todaiji Temple or Kasuga Taisha Shrine.
Nara Women's University has a unique trait: It offers a range of education programs for girls from 3 to 27 (from kindergarten children to graduate students). Considering that a significant portion of life is spent at school, it can be said that humans are creatures that love to study. The university comprises the Faculty of Letters, a staple of the women's college, the Faculty of Science, which is unusual for a women's college, and the Faculty of Human Life and Environment, which is the only one found at a women's college.
Nara Women's Higher Normal School, the predecessor of Nara Women's University, opened in 1909. The Imperial Diet assembly voted in 1907 to determine where in the Kansai region to establish a second women's higher regular school. As it was a 131–131 draw between Kyoto and Nara, the chairman decided to establish it in Nara. While Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School was placed in the urban capital city, Nara Women's Higher School was placed in the ancient capital. It seems to have produced a very fateful role for us to play.
After defeat in World War II, our forefathers launched and devoted themselves to a campaign to upgrade the school to a university. Due to the basic rule for establishing universities, the "one university per prefecture" rule, the school had to be approved as an exception. The difficulties involved in this task were unimaginable, and we experienced several teething troubles during the school's rebirth.
The doctoral program was launched in 1980. However, this took four years from the planning stage. It had been a strong desire for the university to have the capability to train its doctoral candidates. Today, even though the university has had to experience the troubles of starting fresh for the third time, more than 500 graduate students devote themselves to studies in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences.
Japan's population has been decreasing since 2007. As the trend changes, conventional thinking falls short, and the opposite of common sense becomes true in many ways. In the past, values were drastically turned upside down during the Meiji Restoration and World War II. According to the Science Council of Japan, a leading science organization in Japan, a movement to give "science for the sake of society" the same status as "science for the sake of science" is occurring today. At the same time, the voices that seek female leaders are becoming strong.
Nara Women's University is located in Nara's ancient capital, a place where nature is all around. Students come from all over the country to enjoy Nara and then return home. Studying in Nara is unlike studying in a metropolitan city; it is more appropriate to learn how to walk at the forefront than running at the forefront. With this in mind, we would like to take on the future with the same passion that our forefathers displayed.

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