Nagoya Women's University is a private women's university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan with campuses at Tempaku-ku and Mizuho-ku. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1915, and it was chartered as a junior college in 1950. "Nagoya Girls' School, the predecessor of Nagoya Women's University(NWU), was founded in 1915. Haruko Koshihara, the founder of the school, established ""Kindness"" as the guiding principle of the school and emphasized that women should devote themselves to their studies in order to become independent in society and contribute to cultural improvement. 　 The spiritual legacy of the school's founder lives on at Nagoya Women's Junior College (now NWU) which was established in 1950. Haruko advocated ""equality between men and women through women's own efforts"" and stressed that, to that end, women needed to acquire a high level of culture and vocational ability and attain economic independence."