, also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private

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, in

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. Rikkyo is one of the five

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universities, the group of private universities in the

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, together with

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, Aoyama Gakuin, Chuo, and Hosei. Rikkyo is known as one of the six leading universities in the field of sports in Tokyo ( "Big Six" — Rikkyo University,

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, and

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). A leading liberal arts teaching and research institution, the university is the largest

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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

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( St. Margaret's Junior College).

Boys' schools

* Rikkyo Primary School *

Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior and Senior High School is private boys' junior and senior high school in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo. History Bishop Channing Moore Williams established Rikkyo Junior High School in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1896. The original building was destroyed by the Great Kantō earthqua ...

* Rikkyo Niiza Junior and Senior High School

Girls' schools

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

The origins of the university date from the founding of St. Paul's School for boys in 1874 by

Channing Moore Williams Channing Moore Williams (July 17, 1829 – December 2, 1910) was an Episcopal Church missionary, later bishop, in China and Japan. Williams was a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japan. His commemoration in some Angl ...

, a missionary of the Episcopal Church and a leading figure in the establishment of the

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. The school's first classes were held in Williams' home in the

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, 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,

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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

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. 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

In 1909, 23 acres of land were purchased near

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 The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (, or ) was a major earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, 1 September 1923. It had an approximate magnitude of 8.0 on the mom ...

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

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Rikkyo's status as an

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

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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

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

. With the support of former faculty such as

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, 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

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100kW research reactor at

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contributing the development of

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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

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

* 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

* 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

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

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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

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Ikebukuro campus

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

Niiza Campus

* 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

* 2014

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Sports

Rikkyo's baseball team plays in the

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. They have won 12 league championships in their history. Rikkyo's

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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

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Alumni

* Jiro Akama: member of the

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(

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) *

Shinji Aoyama was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film '' Eureka''. Biography Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, ...

- Film director * Tetsuma Esaki: member of House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party) *

Mineyuki Fukuda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Overviews A native of Yokohama, Kanagawa and graduate of Rikkyo University , also known as Saint Paul's ...

: member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party) * Toshio Gotō - Film director *

Isuna Hasekura is a Japanese novelist. In 2005, Hasekura won the Silver Prize in the twelfth Dengeki Novel Prize with his debut novel '' Spice and Wolf''. He published the first volume of the manga the following year. Early life Hasekura studied at Rikkyo Un ...

- Author * Tomoko Honda - Television announcer *

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- musician, member of the

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Ryō Ikebe was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Rikkyō University and originally wanted to be a director, but ended up debuting as an actor at Tōhō in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s. H ...

- Actor * Tadashi Inuzuka: member of the

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in the Diet (

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) * Fukuzo Iwasaki: real estate entrepreneur *

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: member of the

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- Film director *

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- Radio and television announcer * Shinkichi Mitsumune - Composer *

Tatsuya Mori is a Japanese documentary filmmaker, TV director, and author. Career Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Mori graduated from Rikkyo University, where he appeared in the student films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After graduating, he tried acting and even a ...

- Documentary filmmaker *

Yuka Murayama (born 1964) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Subaru Literary Newcomer Prize, the Naoki Prize, and the Shibata Renzaburo Prize. Biography Born in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan, Murayama graduated from Rikkyo University and majored in Japanese liter ...

- Author *

Shigeo Nagashima was a Japanese professional baseball player and manager. Nicknamed "Mr. Pro Baseball" of Japan and "Mr. Giants", Nagashima first began playing baseball in elementary school, before playing at his high school in Chiba Prefecture before playing ...

- Baseball player and manager of the

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Rei Nakanishi was a Japanese novelist and songwriter. He won the 122nd Naoki Prize. Career Nakanishi was born Reizō Nakanishi () in Mudanjiang, Manchukuo. He graduated from Kudan High School in Tokyo and received a degree in French literature from Rikkyo ...

- Japanese novelist *

Yōko Nogiwa was a Japanese actress. Her acting career spanned from 1958 until 2017. Biography Nogiwa was born in Toyama, Toyama, and grew up in Suginami, Tokyo from the age of three. She graduated from Rikkyo University. In 1973, she married Sonny Chib ...

- Actress *

Toshio Ogawa is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). Ogawa is a former Minister of Justice. A native of Nerima, Tokyo, and a graduate of Rikkyo Universit ...

: former Senior Vice-Minister of Justice (Japan), member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (Democratic Party of Japan) *

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- Game producer *

Motoharu Sano , is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. A graduate of Rikkyo University, Sano is a frontman with a history of performing in several bands which feature music both in Japanese and occasionally, English, playing songs that often have a rock ...

- SongWriter, Musician * Makoto Shinozaki - Film director *

Akihiko Shiota (born 11 September 1961, Maizuru, Kyoto) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Shiota attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyama and began making 8mm fi ...

- Film director *

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Early life and education Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...

- Photographer *

Masayuki Suo is a Japanese people, Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize (film), Japan Academy Prize-winning films, ''Sumo Do, Sumo Don't'' (1992) and ''Shall We Dance? (1996 film), Shall We Dance?'' (1996). Life and caree ...

- Film director *

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- Baseball player of the

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, former Eiō title holder. *

Masami Tanabu (7 December 1934 – 26 March 2025) was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hachinohe, Aomori and graduate of Rikkyo University, he was elect ...

: former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan) * Ryosei Tanaka: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party) *

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- Poet *

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: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party) *

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- Author *

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(Zhou Shuren) *

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- 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) *

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- American economist (1963) *

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-born British academic and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobe ...

- economist and philosopher (1963) *

- Anglican lay missionary to Japan, founder of Camp Seisen Ryo (1965) *

Arthur Frank Burns Arthur Frank Burns (April 27, 1904 – June 26, 1987) was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight ...

- American economist (1965) *

Edwin O. Reischauer Edwin Oldfather Reischauer ( ; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and cu ...

- United States ambassador to Japan (1965) *

Joseph Kitagawa Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (March 8, 1915 – October 7, 1992) was an eminent Japanese American scholar in religious studies. He was professor emeritus and dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is considered one of the founders of the ...

- dean of University of Chicago Divinity School(1977) *

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- president of the University of Chicago (1979) *

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- Archbishop of Canterbury (1987) *

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- United States Ambassador to Japan (2000) *

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- American business magnate (2000) *

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- Prime Minister of Australia (2003) *

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- 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (2005) *

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- founder of the Grameen Bank (2007) *

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- Archbishop of Canterbury (2009) *

Fazle Hasan Abed Sir Fazle Hasan Abed (; 27 April 1936 – 20 December 2019) was the founder of BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations. Early life Abed was born on 27 April 1936 in the village of Baniachong, located in what is pres ...

- Founder and Chairman of

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BRAC University BRAC University (, also known as BRACU) is a private research university located in Merul Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 2001 as a branch of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's BRAC under the Private University Act 1992. History Sir ...

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** Panthéon-Assas University **

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** Sungkonghoe University **

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