Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin (東洋英和女学院, Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin) is a private girls academy founded on November 6, 1884, in Azabu, Minato, Tokyo by Martha J. Cartmell, a Methodist missionary from Canada.
[1] Toyo Eiwa Women's University, established as a four-year college in 1989, is attached to the school.
[1] The school expanded to include a kindergarten class in 1914, a dormitory, kindergarten building, and a house for the Methodist missionaries in 1932, and a brand new building for the school in 1933.
[2] Due to the anti-Western sentiment during World War II, the Ei (英) (meaning "English") in Eiwa (英和) was changed to Ei (永), meaning "eternal" or "eternity", in 1941.
In 1965, facilities were expanded to include a location at Oiwake, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture and camp was established in 1970 at Lake Nojiri.