Ferris Girls' Junior & Senior High School

Ferris Girls' Junior & Senior High School (フェリス女学院中学校・高等学校 Ferisu Jogakuin Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō) is a junior and senior high school for girls in Yokohama.

The institution began in 1870,[1] when the first unmarried female missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Japan,[2] Mary Eddy Kidder began teaching at a facility established by Clara Hepburn, wife of James Curtis Hepburn.

[3] This was Japan's first mission-sponsored school,[4] and the country's first higher learning institution for women.

[7] During the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 the headmistress, Miss Kuyper, died, and school buildings were destroyed.

[1] In 1941 the school was renamed Yokohama Yamate Girls' School (横浜山手女学院 Yokohama Yamate Jogakuin);[1] this temporary name change occurred during an anti-English language sentiment during World War II era Japan.