is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. History The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the Reformed Church in the United States in Japan with the assistance of missionaries Masayoshi Oshikawa and William Edwin Hoy in 1886. It was expanded into a high school in 1911, and chartered as a university in 1946. Organization Undergraduate Faculty of Arts Department of English Japanese Literature Department Department of Human Culture Psychology Department of Behavioral Sciences Music department Food and Nutrition Department Life and Culture Department of Design Department of clinical development International Culture Department Children's Department of Education Graduate Humanities Graduate School of Humanities English, Department of English and American Literature Japanese Language and Literature Department Human Culture Department Life and Culture Design Department Health and Nutrition Studies Alumni Toshiko Abe - politician Sayaka Ando - gravure idol References External links Official website Educational institutions established in 1886 Christian universities and colleges in Japan Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Miyagi Prefecture Women's universities and colleges in Japan Buildings and structures in Sendai 1886 establishments in Japan