Nara Women's University (Japanese: 奈良女子大学 Nara joshi daigaku) , is one of two national women's universities in Japan, located in Nara. The other one is the Ochanomizu University. Nara Women's University was originally created in 1908 with the aim of training women teachers for ordinary schools, later to be reorganized and renamed with its current name in 1949. Until 1949 we had only two women's imperial quasi-universities in Japan, the Ochanomizu University and Nara Women's University. Nara Women's University was formerly called "Nara joshi kōtō shihan gakkō (奈良女子高等師範学校, Nara advanced teachers college for women) .