Wisdom university renamed St. Thomas University to "Japan International University" was renamed again

A Catholic university in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture "St. Thomas University"But"Japan International University"It was revealed that we renamed it.

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According to reports by Sankei Shimbun,Judgment that it is difficult to continue management with quorumThe university of St. Thomas in Amagasaki City, Hyogo prefecture, which had stopped recruiting students from the university, announced that it will change the name of the university to "Japan International University" in April 2012.

The university was a college only with "Faculty of Human Culture and Symbiosis" which was reorganized from the Faculty of Letters until March 2008 and the Faculty of Letters from April 2008, but the university's "Comparative Culture and Business" Undergraduate "and plan to set up" health science department "to study nursing.

St. Thomas University is known for "Grief (grief)" research, and in April 2009, "Japan Grief Care Research Institute" was established. The institute was transferred to Sophia University of the same Catholic style in April 2010, but the institute itself does not move to Tokyo and is still installed in the campus.

In addition, St. Thomas University avoids confusion with "Wisdom (Eiichi) University" that the word sense of the school name is close to "etch" and that "advertisement magazines such as" Della Beppin "was published In the meanwhile there is also a meaning meaningfully changed in May 2007, it will change the name of the school in only five years.