Sophia University
S.J. House7-1 Kioichō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan, International
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The Educational Ideals of Sophia University Based on Christian principles of education, Sophia University attests to the four-hundred-year-old interest of the Jesuit Order in Japan. Its aim is to prepare men and women coming from different countries to recognize in the different cultural traditions of the world the fundamental unity of the human race and to work for the concrete achievement of that unity. The roots of the university go back to 1549, when St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit, landed in Kagoshima with the hope of starting a Catholic university which would introduce Western culture to Japan. In 1908, nearly 360 years later, three members of the Society of Jesus-the German Father Joseph Dahlmann, the French Father Henri Boucher, and th