Kobe College
| 神戸女学院大学 | |
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| Motto | Love thy God, love thy neighbor |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1875 |
| President | Ken Ii |
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Academic staff
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84 full-time, 321 part-time |
| Undergraduates | 2,635 |
| Postgraduates | 96 |
| Location | Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan |
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Suburban, 35 acres (0.1 km²) |
| Mascot | None |
| Website | www.kobe-c.ac.jp |
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Kobe College (神戸女学院大学 Kōbe jogakuin daigaku?), abbreviated to KC, is a private non-sectarian liberal arts college located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. Chartered in 1948, it is the first women's college with university status in West Japan.
Since its foundation in 1875, Kobe College continues to provide a well-balanced education for women based on Christian principles. This is expressed in the school badge and color designed in 1885 by E.M. Brown, the third college president. The motif of the school badge is the honewort which expresses harmony of "body," "spirit," and "soul." The school color is dark blue which expresses "peace" and "truth."
The College was originally located on Yamamoto Street in Kōbe, Japan. It is now located in Okadayama Town in Nishinomiya City on the Hankyu Train Line. The property was previously owned by the Sakurai family of the Matsudaira clan, a branch to the Shogun family.
The original main buildings managed to withstand the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 with far less damage than many recently built structures.
When the College was relocated to the present Okadayama campus in 1933, Dr. William Merrell Vories, the leader of the Omi Mission and renowned architect, designed the original buildings in accordance with the key principle: an architect's happiness lies in building beautiful buildings and bringing happiness to their users. The architectural design on campus reflects this belief. The southern Mediterranean style buildings with ivory colored walls and bronze-colored tile roofs were reputed to be the most magnificent in the country.
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