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Palmore Institute (Palmore Gakuin) is a vocational college for English language located in Kobe, Japan. HistoryOn November 27, 1886, W. R. Lambuth, a Southern Methodist missionary dispatched from the United States, opened a reading room for young men in Kobe, Japan. The Reverend William Beverly Palmore of Springfield, Missouri visited Kobe and took a deep interest in Lambuth’s new library, which was open every night. The Reverend Palmore established an annual donation of $100 to the reading room. He also promised to send books and periodicals to the reading room. On January 4, 1887, the Japan Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, therefore resolved that the reading room would be named the Palmore Institute. A lecture or debate was held there every Saturday night. In the following years the institute considered closing many times. However, as a result of the efforts of female missionaries such as W.R. Lambuth’s wife, Mary, female students were accepted at the institute. Later, in 1910, J. S. Oxford was appointed as a missionary to the school. He broadened the school’s curriculum establishing departments of practical English, shorthand, and typing. As Kobe developed as an open Treaty Por In 1923 missionary C. G. Holland decided to branch Palmore Institute’s typing department off to form Keimei Jo Gakuin (now Keimei Gakuin junior and senior high schools). Palmore Institute was forced to virtually cease operations during World War II, but resumed educational activities as a senmon gakko (vocational school) for English education after the war with the aim of training advanced English professionals. Palmore Institute faced another crisis in the wake of the 1995 Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. The school, however, survived to celebrate its 120th anniversary in 2006 and moved the following year to its current location in front of JR Kobe station. Timeline
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