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Ferris Girls' Junior & Senior High School (フェリス女学院中学校・高等学校 ''Ferisu Jogakuin Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō'') is a junior and senior high school for girls in Yokohama. It is a part of Ferris Jogakuin (学校法人フェリス女学院). ==History== The institution began in 1870,〔"(History of Ferris )" ((Archive )). Ferris University. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.〕 when the first unmarried female missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Japan,〔Ion, A. Hamish. ''The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant missionary movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865-1945: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1865-1945''. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, March 16, 1993. ISBN 0889202184, 9780889202184. p. (21 ).〕 Mary Eddy Kidder began teaching at a facility established by Clara Hepburn, wife of James Curtis Hepburn.〔Copeland, Rebecca (Washington University in St. Louis). "(3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan )" ((Archive )). In: Choi, Hyaeweol and Margaret Jolly (editors). ''(Divine Domesticities Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific )''. Australian National University Press, 2014. ISBN 9781925021943 (paperback) 9781925021950 (ebook). Retrieved on April 5, 2015. "The following September, after the Hepburns had left for Shanghai to attend to the publication of his dictionary and the translations of the Gospel of Mark, Mary limited the class to girls. And thus the inauguration of “Miss Kidder’s School for Girls,” known as the first school of higher learning for women in Japan. In October 1871 she had twelve girls:()"〕 The Hepburns had established their girls' school in 1862.〔 Kidder established her "Miss Kidder’s School for Girls" after the Hepburns left Japan.〔 This was Japan's first mission-sponsored school,〔Eder, Elizabeth K. ''Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan'' (Studies of Modern Japan). Lexington Books, January 1, 2003. ISBN 0739106406, 9780739106402. p. (179 ).〕 and the country's first higher learning institution for women.〔 Initially Kidder's classes had boys, but in September 1871 she restricted her classes to girls only.〔Ion, Hamish. ''American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73'' (Asian Religions and Society Series). UBC Press, July 1, 2010. ISBN 0774858990, 9780774858991. p. (221 ).〕 The school was named "Isaac Ferris Seminary" (フェリス･セミナリー ''Ferisu Seminarī''), after the head of the Reformed Church Board of Foreign Missions Isaac Ferris, in 1875.〔Mehl, Margaret. ''Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kangaku Juku'' (NIAS Monograph Series 第 第 92 号 巻, ISSN 1359-0421). NIAS Press, 2005. ISBN 8791114942, 9788791114946. p. (24 ).〕 That year, its school and residence facilities were built at 178 Yamate. It was renamed to Ferris Waei Jogakkō (フェリス和英女学校 ''Ferisu Waei Jogakkō''; "Ferris Japanese-English Girl's School") in 1889.〔 During the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 the headmistress, Mrs. Kuyper, died, and school buildings were destroyed. A building in the Yamate Campus named after Kuyper, Kuyper Memorial Hall, opened in 1929.〔 In 1941 the school was renamed Yokohama Yamate Girl's School (横浜山手女学院 ''Yokohama Yamate Gakuin'');〔 this temporary name change occurred during an anti-English language sentiment during World War II era Japan.〔Ishii, Hayato. "(Wartime naval cadet recalls the twisted history of English in Japan )" ((Archive )). Kyodo News at ''The Japan Times''. Retrieved on 5 April 2015.〕 It was renamed Ferris Girl's School in 1951.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferris Girls' Junior & Senior High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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