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Rikkyo University (立教大学, Rikkyō daigaku), also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan.
Rikkyo is one of the five MARCH universities, the group of private universities in the Kanto region, together with Meiji, Aoyama Gakuin, Chuo, and Hosei.
Rikkyo is known as one of the six leading universities in the field of sports in Tokyo (東京六大学 "Big Six" — Rikkyo University, University of Tokyo, Keio University, Waseda University, Meiji University, and Hosei University).
A leading liberal arts teaching and research institution, the university is the largest Anglican Christian affiliated university in Japan.
The university is internationally oriented and involved in numerous international programmes and projects. Rikkyo maintains contact with more than 140 educational institutions abroad for the purpose of exchanging lecturers, students and projects. With more than 700 students from outside Japan, the institution has 20,000 students, and 2,700 teachers and staff members.




Rikkyo Gakuin


The Rikkyo Gakuin is an educational institution, which includes Rikkyo University and several affiliated schools. They include three all-male schools and an international school, The Rikkyo School in England. Rikkyo Gakuin’s sister schools include three all-female schools and, formerly, a junior college (St. Margaret's Junior College).




= Boys' schools

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Rikkyo Primary School
Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior and Senior High School
Rikkyo Niiza Junior and Senior High School




= Girls' schools

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Rikkyo Jogakuin

St. Margaret's Elementary School, AKA Rikkyo Girls' Elementary School
St. Margaret's Junior & Senior High School, AKA Rikkyo Girls' Junior & Senior High School



Kouran Jogakuin

St. Hilda's Junior & Senior High School, AKA Kouran Girls' Junior & Senior High School




History






= Founding

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The origins of the university date from the founding of St. Paul's School for boys in 1874 by Channing Moore Williams, a missionary of the Episcopal Church and a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japan.
The school's first classes were held in Williams' home in the foreign settlement in Tsukiji, Tokyo. Initially five students came to study with the resident missionaries. By the end of the first year this number had grown to 55 with as many as 46 living in a dormitory rented by the school.
Fire devoured the first school buildings in 1876. With funding from the Domestic and Foreign Mission Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church and, in 1880, a new principal, James McDonald Gardiner to supervise, new three-story brick facilities with an imposing 60-foot spire were constructed.

In 1891, Gardiner resigned from the management of the school and was succeeded by Rev. Theodosius Stevens Tyng. Simultaneous with the appointment of Rev. Tyng, the school's name was changed from St. Paul's School to St. Paul's College; curriculum changes were introduced; and a formal application was made for a government license. Enrollment jumped, but the school buildings were in a poor state of repair and were condemned as unsafe by government inspectors. As president of the school Tyng immediately set off to the United States on a fundraising tour. Less than three weeks after his return to Tokyo an earthquake in 1894 leveled much of the original school facilities, highlighting the perils of building on reclaimed land next to the Sumida River. The college was temporarily housed in Trinity Parish House, and by 1896 new buildings including an academic hall and student dormitory were ready for occupation.
In 1897, the Rev. Arthur Lloyd became president of the university. The Rikkyo schools experienced a rapid rise in student enrollment by virtue of the granting of a government license exempting students from military service and granting them access to all government established schools of higher education. Lloyd navigated the school through a turbulent six years as the Japanese Ministry of Education sought to curtail any religious instruction in the curriculum of government-approved schools. As only in the dormitories at Rikkyo was any religious instruction given, the school was able to retain its license.
In 1903, the Rev. Henry St. George Tucker succeeded Rev. Lloyd as president. In 1905 the school reported a male student enrollment of 573 and the need for larger school classroom facilities was acute. After another successful fundraising appeal new classrooms, an assembly hall and an office building were opened in 1907. The Rev. Charles S. Reifsnider succeed Rev. Tucker in 1912 when the latter took up his new post as Bishop of Kyoto.




= New campus and elevation to university status

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In 1909, 23 acres of land were purchased near Ikebukuro for the construction of a larger dedicated campus and the university moved into new buildings at this site in 1919. The University Chapel was consecrated in 1920, and the university was officially chartered by the Ministry of Education in 1922.
The original, red-brick, campus buildings, designed by Murphy & Dana Architects of New York, suffered structural damage in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake but, due to the university's more suburban location, escaped the fires that destroyed much of the center of the city.
Until the 1920s almost all classes at Rikkyo were held in English; Japanese language textbooks were made more widely available toward the end of the decade.
In the late 1930s and during the Second World War Rikkyo's status as an Anglican Christian university came under severe pressure from the military authorities. In 1936, the president of the university, Shigeharu Kimura, was forced to resign over allegations of disrespect during a required public reading of the Imperial Rescript on Education in the University Chapel.
In September 1942, university trustees agreed to change the wording of the charter to sever all ties with Christianity. The majority of Christian faculty members lost their positions and the University All Saints Chapel was closed.




= Post-war period

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At the end of World War II in October 1945 the U.S. Occupation authorities moved swiftly to remove head officials associated with the teaching of militarism and the violation of the university's founding charter. The university re-established its links with the Anglican Church in Japan. With the support of former faculty such as Paul Rusch, they began to restart classes, re-hire faculty, and rebuild.
Women were admitted to degree programs in 1946.
A new library extension, designed by renowned Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, was completed in 1960.
With contributions from private donors, the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Japanese Ministry of Education, between 1961 and 2001 the university owned and operated a TRIGA 100kW research reactor at Yokosuka, Kanagawa contributing the development of neutron radiography and energy research in Japan.
A second suburban campus in Niiza, Saitama for first- and second-year students was established in 1990.
Building on existing undergraduate study programs, new graduate schools for Business Administration, Social Design Studies, and Intercultural Communication were opened in 2002.




= Recent developments

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In September 2014, the Japanese Ministry of Education announced that Rikkyo University had been selected as a “Global Hub” university and will now receive special strategic government funding to support its global education programs.




Organization






= Undergraduate colleges

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College of Arts
College of Intercultural Communications
College of Economics
College of Business
College of Science
College of Sociology
College of Law and Politics
College of Tourism
College of Community and Human Service
College of Contemporary Psychology
College of Sports and Wellness
Global Liberal Arts Program




= Graduate schools

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Graduate School of Christian Studies
Graduate School of Arts
Graduate School of Intercultural Communication
Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Business
Graduate School of Science
Graduate School of Sociology
Graduate School of Law and Politics
Graduate School of Tourism
Graduate School of Community and Human Service
Graduate School of Contemporary Psychology
Graduate School of Sport and Wellness
Graduate School of Business Administration
Graduate School of Social Design Studies
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and Science




= Research laboratories

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Center for Interdisciplinary Research institutes

Institute for American Studies
Institute for Leadership Studies
Centre for Asian Area Studies
Japan Institute of Christian Education (JICE)
Institute for Latin American Studies
Institute of Social Welfare
Institute of Tourism
St. Paul's Institute of English Language Education
Rikkyo Institute of Church Music
Rikkyo Economics Research Institute
Institute for Japanese Studies
Rikkyo Wellness Institute
Rikkyo Institute for Business Law Studies
Rikkyo Institute for Legal Practice Studies
Rikkyo Institute for Global Urban Studies



Other research institutes

Rikkyo Institute for Peace and Community Studies
Education for Sustainable Development Research institutes




Library



The Old Main Library, or Mather Library, in the group of historic red brick buildings at the university's main entrance, was built in 1918. The original building was named in memory of Samuel Mather an American industrialist and long-time sponsor of Episcopal Church overseas mission work. Funds for the original building were donated by Mather in memory of his father. Further funding was also provided by him in 1925 to finance the repairs to the building in the wake of the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake.
The university library buildings have been expanded over succeeding decades to include landmark buildings by Kenzo Tange and more modern structures to house collections containing over 1.7 million volumes of print and non-print materials. The university libraries house specialist collections of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Edogawa Rampo.




= Ikebukuro campus

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Main Library
Social Sciences Library
Humanities Library
Natural Sciences Library
Media Library




= Niiza Campus

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Niiza Library
Niiza Repository




Students


Rikkyo is a co-educational university. As of 2009, female students outnumber male students overall; male students outnumber female students at the graduate level.




Events


In common with most universities in Tokyo, Rikkyo holds an annual student-organized festival each autumn. Known as the St. Paul's festival, student clubs and societies provide entertainment, prepare food, organize sporting events and showcase academic work for the benefit of other students, prospective students, alumni, and the local community.




= World Congress

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2014 International Ornithological Congress




Sports


Rikkyo's baseball team plays in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. They have won 12 league championships in their history.
Rikkyo's American football team plays in Japan's division one in the Kanto B conference. Their record was 3–4 in 2009.
Rikkyo fields a strong program in women's lacrosse.




Alumni


Jiro Akama: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party)
Shinji Aoyama - Film director
Tetsuma Esaki: member of House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party)
Mineyuki Fukuda: member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
Toshio Gotō - Film director
Isuna Hasekura - Author
Tomoko Honda - Television announcer
Haruomi Hosono - musician, member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra
Ryō Ikebe - Actor
Tadashi Inuzuka: member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (Democratic Party of Japan)
Fukuzo Iwasaki: real estate entrepreneur
Tsutomu Kawabuchi: member of the IIHF Hall of Fame
Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Film director
Monta Mino - Radio and television announcer
Shinkichi Mitsumune - Composer
Tatsuya Mori - Documentary filmmaker
Yuka Murayama - Author
Shigeo Nagashima - Baseball player and manager of the Yomiuri Giants
Rei Nakanishi - Japanese novelist
Yōko Nogiwa - Actress
Toshio Ogawa: former Senior Vice-Minister of Justice (Japan), member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (Democratic Party of Japan)
Akira Sakuma - Game producer
Motoharu Sano - SongWriter, Musician
Makoto Shinozaki - Film director
Akihiko Shiota - Film director
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographer
Masayuki Suo - Film director
Kazuhito Tadano - Baseball player of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Taichi Takami - Professional shogi player, former Eiō title holder.
Masami Tanabu: former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
Ryosei Tanaka: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party)
Yun Dong-ju - Poet
Osamu Uno: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party)
Asako Yuzuki - Author
Zhou Zuoren - Chinese writer, the younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren)
Mafumafu - Singer-Songwriter




Recipients of honorary degrees


Henry St. George Tucker (bishop) - the 19th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1958)
Arthur C. Lichtenberger - bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (1959)
Milton Friedman - American economist (1963)
Friedrich Hayek - economist and philosopher (1963)
Paul Rusch - Anglican lay missionary to Japan, founder of Camp Seisen Ryo (1965)
Arthur Frank Burns - American economist (1965)
Edwin O. Reischauer - United States ambassador to Japan (1965)
Joseph Kitagawa - dean of University of Chicago Divinity School(1977)
Hanna Holborn Gray - president of the University of Chicago (1979)
Robert Runcie - Archbishop of Canterbury (1987)
Tom Foley - United States Ambassador to Japan (2000)
Bill Gates - American business magnate (2000)
Bob Hawke - Prime Minister of Australia (2003)
Frank Griswold - 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (2005)
Muhammad Yunus - founder of the Grameen Bank (2007)
Rowan Williams - Archbishop of Canterbury (2009)
Fazle Hasan Abed - Founder and Chairman of BRAC (NGO) (2009)




International exchanges


Augustana College (Illinois), United States
The University of Chicago, United States
Cornell University, United States
Kent State University, United States
Linfield College, United States
University of Maryland, United States
University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States
San Diego State University, United States
Vanderbilt University, United States
University of Virginia, United States
The University of the South, United States
Western Michigan University, United States
Saint Mary's University, Canada
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Canada
University of Waterloo, Canada
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
University of Turku, Finland
BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France
Panthéon-Assas University, France
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, France
Humboldt University, Germany
University of Tübingen, Germany
University of Bonn, Germany
University of Wuppertal, Germany
University of Marburg, Germany
Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Warsaw University, Poland
University of León, Spain
University of Seville, Spain
University of Essex, UK
University of Liverpool, UK
University of Sheffield, UK
BRAC University, Bangladesh
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Nankai University, China
Shanxi University, China
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
East China Normal University, China
Jilin University, China
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Korea University, South Korea
Yonsei University, South Korea
Sungkonghoe University, South Korea
Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Sogang University, South Korea
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Trinity University of Asia, Philippines
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
The Australian National University, Australia
Monash University, Australia
University of New South Wales, Australia
Murdoch University, Australia
Cuttington University, Liberia
Volda University College, Norway




See also


Anglican Church in Japan
Channing Moore Williams
Naoki Monna, emeritus professor




References






External links


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