Friends Girls Junior & Senior High School
35°38′46.16″N 139°44′30.45″E / 35.6461556°N 139.7417917°E
Friends Girls Junior & Senior High School (普連土学園中学校・高等学校, Furendo Gakuen Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō), also known as Friends School (普連土学園, Furendo Gakuen), is a girls' junior and senior high school (7th - 12th grades), authorized by the Japanese Education Law, of Religious Society of Friends in Mita, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
In 1887, Women Evangelical Friends from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA founded it for the purpose of education for women on the advice of Uchimura Kanzō and Nitobe Inazō. The School is still the only Friends' educational organization in Japan. Whilst all the pupils are not Friends, they receive education about Quakerism including about Inner light.
The School states that the characters used to transliterate 'Friend' in Japanese mean "universal connection with all global places". This is derived from an idea of Tsuda Sen, who was the father of Tsuda Umeko, the founder of Tsuda College.
Notable alumni
- Michiyo Aratama, actress
- Asami Kobayashi, singer & actress
- Marie Kondo, organizing consultant
- Yasuko Namba, mountaineer
- Chiyako Sato, singer
External links
- Friends School (Japan) in Japanese & English
- English language map showing both the Friends School and the Friends Meeting with respect to a train station
