{"id":32217,"date":"2015-09-14T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=32217"},"modified":"2015-09-14T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:51:27","slug":"waseda-as-a-postwar-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/32217","title":{"rendered":"Waseda as a postwar university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Waseda University Archives<br \/>\nDaisuke Hoshihara<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasedaweekly.jp\/upload\/965\/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E2%91%A0%E3%80%80%E8%A2%AB%E7%81%BD%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E6%BC%94%E5%8A%87%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"176\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waseda University&#8217;s Theatre Museum following US bomb raids<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the war, US bomb raids destroyed approximately one third of Waseda University\u2019s buildings. Classes resumed one month after the war and a series of education, legal, and administrative reforms followed suit. The reforms integrated the University, high school, vocational schools, and instructor training schools and turned the University\u2019s academic programs into four-year curriculums. In 1949, the Japanese government recognized Waseda University as a \u201cnew university\u201d in accordance with postwar guidelines after the University met criteria established by education reforms.<\/p>\n<p>With Waseda\u2019s recognition as a postwar university came efforts to unify the traditions, independence, and spirit of the University. At an anniversary ceremony, sixth University President Koichi Shimada said, \u201cWhile acknowledging the mission of postwar universities, I would like to preserve the academic traditions of Waseda and its 70 year history, and promote the ideals and spirit of founder Shigenobu Okuma. For example, we have revised the university principles established in 1913, but the only phrase we removed was one that was incompatible with Japan\u2019s new constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eleven schools that resulted from the integration of Waseda\u2019s original undergraduate and graduate schools reflect the above sentiment. One example is \u201cThe School of Education,\u201d the only one of its kind among private universities at that time. The School of Education is the successor to Waseda\u2019s higher normal school, a prewar school that trained male teachers, and was established to train educators and education administrators. Another example is Waseda\u2019s night school. Amidst the economic and social instability of postwar Japan, Waseda strived to provide working students a place to pursue research and education. Waseda\u2019s long held principle of providing education opportunities to working students remains strong to this day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasedaweekly.jp\/upload\/965\/%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E2%91%A1%E3%80%80%E5%AD%A6%E8%8B%91%E3%81%AE%E6%A7%98%E5%AD%90%EF%BC%88%E6%98%AD%E5%92%8C28%E5%B9%B4%E9%A0%83%EF%BC%89.jpg\" width=\"810\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waseda in the Showa period<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Waseda University\u2019s legacy of undergoing various reforms to meet societal demands while preserving its principles and ideals extends to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University Archives Daisuke Hoshihara During the war, US bomb raids destroyed approximately one third o [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-32217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-history-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}