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Ochanomizu University is a Women's university in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan."Ochanomizu" is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded, and resides.HistoryThe university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood. It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School."The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; in December, 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo. It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a national university corporation under Japan's National University Corporation Law in 2004.Affiliated institutionsThe following institutions, colleagues, and schools are associated with Ochanomizu University, and located on campus : Nursery Elementary School Junior High High School, the above entities are all located on the University's campus.