Schools buck coed trend to remain as women's universities in Japan

Amid a nationwide shift in which women's universities in Japan are either going coeducational or closing due to the country's shrinking student population, one school in Nagoya declared earlier this year that it will remain women-only, arguing that such institutions are still necessary."(Women's universities) foster students to become people who can overcome the invisible hurdles that exist in society," Yasuo Sugiyama, chairman of Sugiyama Jogakuen University, said in an interview in June.Sugiyama Jogakuen, which traces its roots to a sewing school founded in 1905, is the only of a trio of …READ FULL ARTICLE