Doshisha University

Doshisha University (同志社大学, Dōshisha Daigaku) is a private university in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 1875 by the Protestant educator Niijima Jō as the Doshisha English School, which makes it one of the country's oldest private institutions of higher learning.同志社大学（Dōshisha Daigaku）是日本京都的一所私立大学，由新教教育家新岛襄于 1875 年以同志社英学校之名创办，是日本历史最悠久的私立高等教育机构之一。

It teaches about 30,000 students in 14 undergraduate faculties and 16 graduate schools across the Imadegawa campus facing the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Kyotanabe campus opened in 1986 and the Karasuma campus opened in 2012.该校在 14 个本科学部与 16 个研究生院中培养约 3 万名学生，校区包括面对京都御所的今出川校区、1986 年启用的京田边校区和 2012 年启用的乌丸校区。

Rooted in Congregationalist Protestantism and guided by the principles of Christianity, liberalism and internationalism, it belongs to the Kankandōritsu group of leading private universities in Kansai, was chosen for the Global 30 programme and sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校根植于公理会新教传统，以基督教主义、自由主义与国际主义为办学原则，是关西著名私立大学群「关关同立」成员，曾入选日本政府 Global 30 国际化项目，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间。

History

• Niijima Jō left Japan in 1864 in defiance of the Tokugawa ban on overseas travel, studied at Phillips Academy and Amherst College in Massachusetts, and returned home in 1874 convinced that Japan needed Christian higher education.新岛襄于 1864 年无视德川幕府的海外旅行禁令离开日本，在马萨诸塞州的菲利普斯学院与阿默斯特学院求学，1874 年归国时已确信日本需要基督教高等教育。

• In 1875 he opened the Doshisha English School in a rented house on Teramachi street in Kyoto with two teachers and eight students, giving the institution the name by which its alumni are still known.1875 年，他在京都寺町通的一处租借房屋中开办同志社英学校，仅有教师 2 人、学生 8 人，这所学校赋予其校友沿用至今的「同志社」之名。

• In 1876 the school moved to the former residence of the Satsuma domain at Imadegawa, where it added a preparatory course and enrolled 35 students, and that site has remained the heart of the university ever since.1876 年，学校迁至今出川的旧萨摩藩邸，增设预科并招入 35 名学生，此后该址一直是大学的核心所在。

• A theological school followed in 1882, and in 1887 Niijima opened the Doshisha Hospital as part of a plan for a medical school, together with a preparatory school.1882 年同志社神学校成立，1887 年新岛襄又创办同志社医院与同志社预备校，前者是其医学教育构想的一部分。

• In 1888 the English school and the preparatory school were merged into Doshisha College, organised into preparatory, general and theological divisions.1888 年，同志社英学校与同志社预备校合并为同志社学院，下设预备学部、普通学部与神学部。

• Niijima died in 1890, the same year that the Harris School of Physical and Chemical Science opened, the ancestor of the present Faculty of Science and Engineering.新岛襄于 1890 年逝世，同年波理须理化学校开办，它成为今日理工学部的前身。

• A school of political science was added in 1891 with departments of politics and finance, from which the modern faculties of law and economics descend.1891 年同志社政法学校设立，开设政治科与理财科，今日的法学部与经济学部即由此发端。

• Under the Vocational School Ordinance of 1904 the theological, liberal arts and science schools were combined into the Doshisha Vocational School, while the political science school was closed.依据 1904 年颁布的《专门学校令》，同志社神学校、高等学部文科学校与波理须理科学校合并为同志社专门学校，政法学校则被废止。

• In 1912 Doshisha University was established under the same ordinance with departments of theology, political economy and English, and in 1919 these were renamed the departments of literature and law.1912 年，同志社大学依同一法令设立，开设神学科、政治经济科与英文科，1919 年英文科改称文学部、政治经济部改称法学部。

• The University Ordinance of 1920 elevated Doshisha to full university status, the first such elevation in the Kansai region, with faculties of letters and law, a graduate school and a preparatory course.1920 年《大学令》使同志社升格为正式大学，成为关西地区第一所依该令升格的大学，设文学部、法学部、研究生院与预科。

• The vocational school was reorganised in 1922, a law department was added in 1923, and from that year women from Doshisha Women's Vocational School were admitted to university lectures.1922 年同志社专门学校改组，1923 年法学部增设法律学科，同年起同志社女子专门学校的学生获准进入大学听课。

• During the Second World War the authorities forced the university to give its buildings Japanese names and to strip the curriculum of pro-Western content, and in 1944 its faculties were compressed into a single Faculty of Law and Letters.第二次世界大战期间，当局强迫学校将校舍改用日式名称并删除课程中的亲西方内容，1944 年各学部更被压缩为单一的法文学部。

• The same wartime reorganisation created the Doshisha Industrial Vocational School, which taught electrical communication, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering and would later feed the engineering faculty.同一场战时改组还创办了同志社工业专门学校，开设电气通信科、机械科与化学工业科，战后成为工学部的重要来源。

• Pre-war structures were restored after Japan's surrender in 1945, and in 1948 Doshisha reopened as a new-system university with faculties of theology, letters, law and economics.1945 年日本投降后，战前体制得以恢复，1948 年同志社作为新制大学重新开学，设神学、文学、法学与经济学四个学部。

• Commerce and engineering were added in 1949, producing a six-faculty structure, and in the same year the university introduced Japan's first Braille entrance examination.1949 年学校增设商学部与工学部，形成六学部体制，同年还实施了日本首次大学盲文入学考试。

• Master's programmes began in 1950 and doctoral programmes in 1953, while a two-year junior college operated from 1950 to 1958.硕士课程于 1950 年开设，博士课程于 1953 年开设，两年制短期大学部则于 1950 年至 1958 年间存在。

• The Associated Kyoto Program, run since 1972 with Amherst College and a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, brings students from the United States to study in Kyoto each year.自 1972 年起，同志社与阿默斯特学院及美国多所文理学院合办京都联合项目，每年把美国学生送到京都学习。

• The Kyotanabe campus opened in 1986 in Kansai Science City, and the engineering faculty moved there in 1994, freeing the Imadegawa site for the humanities and social sciences.京田边校区于 1986 年在关西文化学术研究都市启用，工学部于 1994 年整体迁入，今出川校区由此让位于人文与社会科学。

• Doshisha created Japan's first independent graduate course in American studies in 1991, followed by a graduate school of comprehensive policy science in 1995.1991 年同志社开设日本首个独立设置的研究生院研究科美国研究科，1995 年又设立综合政策科学研究科。

• The Faculty of Policy Studies, the law school and the business school were all founded in 2004, and the Faculty of Sociology and the Faculty of Culture and Information Science followed in 2005.政策学部、法科研究生院与商务研究生院均于 2004 年创设，社会学部与文化情报学部则于 2005 年相继成立。

• In 2008 the engineering faculty became the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and the Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences and the Faculty of Health and Sports Science were created, with psychology gaining faculty status in 2009.2008 年工学部改组为理工学部，生命医学科学部与运动健康科学部同年设立，心理学部则于 2009 年独立成部。

• The Karasuma campus opened in 2012 about 300 metres from Imadegawa, and in 2013 the faculties of letters, law, economics and commerce were consolidated on the Imadegawa side.乌丸校区于 2012 年在距今出川约 300 米处启用，2013 年文学部、法学部、经济学部与商学部全部整合至今出川一带。

• Doshisha marked its 150th anniversary in 2025, having grown from a school of eight pupils into a university of some 30,000 students.2025 年同志社迎来建校 150 周年，从仅有 8 名学生的学校发展为拥有约 3 万名学生的大学。

Academics

• Doshisha is organised into 14 undergraduate faculties: Theology, Letters, Psychology, Sociology, Law, Economics, Commerce, Policy Studies, Culture and Information Science, Science and Engineering, Life and Medical Sciences, Health and Sports Science, International Communication and Global and Regional Studies.同志社下设 14 个本科学部，即神学、文学、心理、社会、法、经济、商、政策、文化情报、理工、生命医学科学、运动健康科学、国际交流与国际地域文化。

• Its 16 graduate schools include theology, letters, psychology, sociology, law, economics, commerce, science and engineering, culture and information science, policy and management, life and medical sciences, health and sports science, global studies, brain science and international communication.其 16 个研究生院涵盖神学、文学、心理学、社会学、法学、经济学、商学、理工学、文化情报学、政策与管理、生命医学科学、运动健康科学、全球研究、脑科学与国际交流等领域。

• The Faculty of Theology, descended from the 1882 theological school, is one of the few in Japan to teach Judaism and Islam alongside Christianity and does not train ministers for a single denomination.神学部源自 1882 年的同志社神学校，是日本少数在基督教之外同时讲授犹太教与伊斯兰教的神学院系，并不以培养单一教派牧师为目标。

• The law faculty traces its origins to the political science department of 1891, and its professional law school, opened in 2004, recorded a 35.0 per cent pass rate in the 2007 national bar examination, with 57 of 161 candidates succeeding and ninth place nationwide.法学部可追溯至 1891 年的政治科，2004 年开设的法科研究生院在 2007 年日本新司法考试中合格率为 35.0%，161 名考生中 57 人合格，合格人数居全国第九。

• The economics and commerce faculties descend from the finance department of 1891 and the higher commercial department of 1922, and the business school added an all-English Global MBA in 2009.经济学部与商学部分别源自 1891 年的理财科和 1922 年的高等商业部，商务研究生院于 2009 年增设全英文授课的全球 MBA 项目。

• The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Kyotanabe offers programmes in intelligent information engineering, information systems design, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical systems, energy mechanical engineering, functional molecular and life chemistry, chemical systems engineering, environmental systems and mathematical systems.京田边校区的理工学部开设智能信息工学、信息系统设计、电气电子工学、机械系统工学、能源机械工学、机能分子与生命化学、化学系统创成工学、环境系统学与数理系统学等专业。

• The Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, created in 2008, combines medical engineering, medical information and medical life systems in an interdisciplinary programme taught at Kyotanabe.2008 年设立的生命医学科学部把医工学、医情报学与医生命系统学结合起来，在京田边校区开展跨学科教学。

• The Faculty of Health and Sports Science, also founded in 2008, offers a single department of health and sports science and operates the university's anti-ageing research centre.同样成立于 2008 年的运动健康科学部仅设运动健康科学科，并运营学校的防老化研究中心。

• The Faculty of Culture and Information Science, opened in 2005, studies the collection and analysis of information about culture and invited former prime minister Yukio Hatoyama as a guest professor.2005 年开设的文化情报学部研究文化信息的采集与分析，曾聘请前首相鸠山由纪夫担任客座教授。

• Psychology became an independent faculty in 2009 when the former department in the Faculty of Letters was reorganised and moved to the Kyotanabe campus.心理学部于 2009 年由文学部心理学科改组独立，并整体迁至京田边校区。

• The Imadegawa and Kyotanabe libraries together hold more than 2.5 million volumes, and the Kyotanabe campus also houses the Learned Memorial Library.今出川与京田边两处图书馆合计藏书逾 250 万册，京田边校区还设有李尔纳德纪念图书馆。

• As of 2013 the university employed 777 full-time and 1,411 part-time faculty members, and it ranked 36th in Japan by number of patents filed.截至 2013 年，全校有专任教师 777 人、兼任教师 1,411 人，专利申请数位居日本第 36 位。

• The Associated Kyoto Program, founded in 1972, brings about 40 students from 15 American liberal arts colleges to Doshisha each September for a year of study, and the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies is also based there.1972 年创立的京都联合项目每年 9 月从美国 15 所文理学院送来约 40 名学生，在同志社进行为期一年的学习，京都日本研究联盟也设于该校。

• Doshisha was selected in 2009 for the Global 30 project, a Japanese government initiative to internationalise leading universities, and it has since expanded the number of courses taught in English.同志社于 2009 年入选日本政府推动顶尖大学国际化的 Global 30 项目，此后不断扩大英语授课课程的数量。

• Graduate education began with master's courses in 1950 and doctoral courses in 1953, and the American studies graduate school of 1991 was the first independent graduate course in Japan.研究生教育始于 1950 年的硕士课程与 1953 年的博士课程，1991 年设立的美国研究科是日本首个独立设置的研究生院研究科。

• Research is supported by the Humanities Research Institute, founded in 1944 and renamed in 1957, the Research Center for Worldwide Business, the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions and the Anti-Ageing Research Centre.科研平台包括 1944 年设立并于 1957 年改名的人文科学研究所、全球商务研究中心、一神教跨学科研究中心与防老化研究中心。

Campus

• The Imadegawa campus occupies the former residence of the Satsuma domain in Kamigyō ward, next to Shōkoku-ji and directly opposite the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and has been in use since 1876.今出川校区位于上京区旧萨摩藩邸旧址，毗邻相国寺并正对京都御所，自 1876 年起一直使用至今。

• Five buildings on the Imadegawa campus, including the Doshisha Chapel and Clark Memorial Hall, are designated Important Cultural Properties of Japan, and the red-brick ensemble is a symbol of the university.今出川校区的同志社礼拜堂、克拉克纪念馆等五座建筑被列为日本重要文化财，红砖建筑群已成为大学的象征。

• The Ryoshinkan, a learning commons of more than 40,000 square metres opened in 2012, incorporates Imadegawa Station on the Karasuma Line of the Kyoto Municipal Subway.2012 年启用的良书馆是一座逾 4 万平方米的学习共享空间，并直接与京都市营地铁乌丸线今出川站相连。

• The Kyotanabe campus opened in 1986 on about 195 acres in Kansai Science City, south of Kyoto, and serves the science, engineering, life sciences and sports faculties.京田边校区于 1986 年在京都南部的关西文化学术研究都市启用，占地约 195 英亩，主要供理工、生命科学与运动科学各学部使用。

• The Karasuma campus, opened in 2012 some 300 metres from Imadegawa, houses the International Education Institute, the Graduate School of Global Studies and the Faculty of Global and Regional Studies.乌丸校区于 2012 年启用，距今出川约 300 米，设国际教育研究所、全球研究研究生院与国际地域文化学部。

• The university's Kyoto footprint includes the Imadegawa, Shinmachi, Karasuma and Muromachi sites, while the Kyotanabe area includes the Kyotanabe, Kansai Science City and Tatara sites.该校在京都的校地包括今出川、新町、乌丸与室町四处，京田边一带则包括京田边、学研都市与多多罗三处。

• The Doshisha Chapel, a red-brick Protestant chapel on the Imadegawa campus, is among the oldest surviving church buildings in Japan and remains the setting for university ceremonies.今出川校区的同志社礼拜堂是一座红砖新教教堂，为日本现存最古老的教堂建筑之一，至今仍是大学仪式的举行场所。

• The Kyotanabe campus contains the Learned Memorial Library and the Mukokukan, and its landscaped grounds adjoin the research institutes of Kansai Science City.京田边校区建有李尔纳德纪念图书馆与向光馆，园林式校园与关西文化学术研究都市的各研究机构相邻。

• The main campus is a short walk from Imadegawa Station and the Imperial Palace park, while the business school keeps a satellite campus in Umeda, Osaka, about 30 minutes away by train.主校区步行即可到达今出川站与御苑公园，商务研究生院则在约 30 分钟车程外的大阪梅田设有卫星校区。

Reputation

• Doshisha is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the tied final segment of the table rather than a single numbered position.同志社在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端的并列区间而非单独名次。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it appears in the 2001+ band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 2001+ 区间。

• It did not enter the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking, and it is likewise absent from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

• Doshisha is one of the four Kankandōritsu universities of Kansai, alongside Kansai University, Kwansei Gakuin University and Ritsumeikan University, a grouping long used by employers and newspapers in western Japan.同志社是关西「关关同立」四校之一，与关西大学、关西学院大学、立命馆大学并列，这一组合长期被西日本的企业与媒体用作择校参照。

• A 2011 ranking by Toyo Keizai counted 533 Doshisha alumni serving as executives of listed companies, and in 2013 about 25.5 per cent of its undergraduates entered one of Japan's top 400 companies.东洋经济 2011 年的统计显示，同志社校友中有 533 人担任上市公司高管，2013 年约 25.5% 的本科毕业生进入日本前 400 强企业。

• That 25.5 per cent employment rate ranked eighth among all private universities in Japan and first among private universities in Kansai.这一 25.5% 的就业比例在日本全部私立大学中排名第八，在关西私立大学中位居第一。

• Doshisha was chosen for the Global 30 project in 2009 and remains one of the Japanese universities most active in hosting American liberal arts students through the Associated Kyoto Program.同志社于 2009 年入选 Global 30 项目，至今仍是接收美国文理学院学生最活跃的日本大学之一，京都联合项目即其代表。

• The university ranked 36th nationally in patent filings, according to the faculty profile published in 2013, reflecting a research profile weighted towards engineering and the applied sciences.根据 2013 年公布的教师概况，该校专利申请数居全国第 36 位，反映出以工程与应用科学为重心的科研结构。

• Within Japan Doshisha is generally grouped with the leading private universities of the Kansai region, and its 1875 foundation date gives it a longer history than most of its domestic peers.在日本国内，同志社通常被归入关西顶尖私立大学之列，其 1875 年的创校年份使其历史长于多数国内同类院校。

Student life

• Doshisha has no formal Latin motto, and its founding creed is the ideal of conscience (良心), expressed in Niijima's inscription calling for men whose whole being is filled with conscience, carved on monuments at both main campuses.同志社没有正式的拉丁文校训，其创校信条是「良心」理念，新岛襄「期待全身充满良心的青年出现」的碑文刻在两处主校区。

• The Doshisha College Song, written by William Merrell Vories and set to a melody by Carl Wilhelm derived from Die Wacht am Rhein, was compiled in 1908, and the university song has lyrics by Kitahara Hakushū and music by Yamada Kōsaku.《同志社学院歌》由威廉·梅雷尔·瓦里斯作词、卡尔·威廉以《守望莱茵》旋律谱曲，于 1908 年编定，另有北原白秋作词、山田耕筰作曲的《同志社大学歌》。

• The university colours are indigo and white, chosen to match those of Phillips Academy, Niijima's American school.该校校色为靛蓝与白色，与新岛襄留美母校菲利普斯学院的校色相同。

• More than 400 clubs and organisations operate across the campuses, ranging from the orchestra and the a cappella group One Voices to religious and sports societies.全校有 400 多个社团与组织，涵盖管弦乐团、无伴奏合唱团 One Voices 以及宗教与体育类社团。

• Doshisha Eve, the Kyotanabe Festival and the Sports Festival are the three main annual student events, and the Christmas gathering at Imadegawa is the best known of them.同志社 EVE、京田边祭与体育祭是三大年度学生活动，其中在今出川举行的圣诞集会最为知名。

• The baseball team competes in the Kansai Big Six Baseball League and maintains a fierce rivalry with Ritsumeikan University.棒球队参加关西六大学棒球联盟，并与立命馆大学长期保持激烈竞争。

• The rugby team won the All-Japan University Rugby Championship four times between 1980 and 1984.橄榄球队在 1980 年至 1984 年间四度夺得全日本大学橄榄球锦标赛冠军。

• The men's basketball team appears regularly at the All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship, and the university cheer, composed by Frank A. Lombard in 1903, is still performed at fixtures along with the chant Doshisha Heroes.男子篮球队常年在全日本大学篮球锦标赛中亮相，弗兰克·隆巴德 1903 年创作的助威曲至今仍在赛场演奏，短曲《同志社英雄》则是最常用的呐喊。

• The mascot Ben-K, created in 2009 for the 165th anniversary of Niijima's birth, borrows the founder's beard and suit from his beagle Benkei, and the Yae-san mascot followed in 2011 when Niijima's wife became the subject of the NHK drama Yae no Sakura.吉祥物 Ben-K 于 2009 年新岛襄诞辰 165 周年时创作，以创始人饲养的比格犬「辨庆」为原型并加上他的胡须与西装，2011 年新岛八重成为 NHK 大河剧《八重之樱》主角后又诞生了「八重小姐」吉祥物。

Notable people

• Niijima Jō, the founder, served as president from 1875 until his death in 1890 and is remembered as one of the six great educators of the Meiji era.创办人新岛襄自 1875 年起担任校长直至 1890 年去世，被视为明治六大教育家之一。

• Yamamoto Kakuma, an educator and author, became the second president in 1890 and led the school until 1892 during the difficult years after Niijima's death.教育家与作家山本觉马于 1890 年出任第二任校长，在新岛襄去世后的艰难时期执掌学校至 1892 年。

• Seito Saibara, president from 1899 to 1902, was the first Christian member of the Japanese Diet and later emigrated to Texas to grow rice.西原清东于 1899 年至 1902 年任校长，是日本国会首位基督教议员，后移居美国得克萨斯州种植水稻。

• Kotaro Shimomura, a chemical engineer who studied in Germany, served as president from 1904 to 1907 and helped shape the university's early science curriculum.曾在德国留学的化学工程师下村孝太郎于 1904 年至 1907 年任校长，对大学早期理科课程的形成有所贡献。

• Takako Doi, a Doshisha graduate, became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1993 and led the Japan Socialist Party.同志社校友土井多贺子于 1993 年成为日本首位女性众议院议长，并曾担任日本社会党党首。

• Abe Isoo, a Christian socialist, pacifist and feminist who sat in the Diet, is counted among the university's alumni and early intellectual circle.基督教社会主义者、和平主义者与女权运动者安部矶雄曾任国会议员，被视为该校校友与早期知识圈成员。

• Uchida Kōsai, a statesman who twice served as acting prime minister of Japan, studied at Doshisha in its early years.曾两度代理日本首相的政党内阁政治家内田康哉早年曾在同志社求学。

• Yun Dong-ju, the Korean poet whose collection Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry became a classic of modern Korean literature, studied English literature at Doshisha in the early 1940s.韩国诗人尹东柱著有诗集《天空、风、星星与诗》，是韩国现代文学经典，他于 1940 年代初在同志社学习英国文学。

• Gunpei Yokoi, the Nintendo engineer who created the Game Boy and the Game & Watch series, graduated from Doshisha's engineering faculty.任天堂工程师横井军平创造了 Game Boy 与 Game & Watch 系列，毕业于同志社工学部。

• Hansō Sōshitsu, the fifteenth head of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony, studied at Doshisha and has represented Japanese tea culture abroad.里千家第十五代家元千宗室曾在同志社求学，并长期在海外推广日本茶道文化。

• David Zoppetti, the Swiss-Italian author who wrote the novel Ichigen-san about a foreign employee in a Japanese company, is a Doshisha alumnus.瑞士意大利裔作家大卫·佐佩蒂以日本企业中的外籍职员为题材创作小说《一言先生》，是同志社校友。