is a Christian-affiliated private

Private university

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 junior college

Junior college

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 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa

Sagamihara, Kanagawa

is a city located in north central Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Tokyo, Japan. It is the third most populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of Greater Tokyo. Its northern neighbor is Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been...

, Japan

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Founded as a school for kindergarten

Kindergarten

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teachers in 1960, it was located in Setagaya, Tokyo. It changed its name to Izumi Junior College in 1965. In 1974, it relocated to its present location in Sagamihara. Formerly a women's junior college, in 2001, it became coeducational.

External links

• Official website