6-1-1-3Hiroshima, a City of Learning

Hiroshima Higher Normal School presented as an attraction in a picture postcard
Meiji to Taisho periods Courtesy of Kazuyo Mizukami

In 1902, a Higher Normal School opened in Hiroshima to train teachers. The only other such school in Japan was in Tokyo. The Hiroshima University of Literature and Science opened in 1929. Hiroshima became a leading city of learning, with numerous private schools and institutions of higher education, including a technical college and women’s colleges.