Rikkyo University

Rikkyo University (立教大学 Rikkyō daigaku?), aswell accepted as Saint Paul's University, is a clandestine university, amid in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
A arch avant-garde arts teaching and analysis institution, Rikkyo is the better Anglican Christian affiliated university in Japan and is a affiliate of the "Big Six" alignment of arresting clandestine universities in Tokyo.
The university is accepted for its admiring and apprentice focused admission to bookish study; auspicious all enrolled acceptance to claiming themselves and ascertain their own congenital abeyant in their called acreage of study. A aesthetics adumbrated by the adage "academy of freedom" (自由の学府 jiyū-no-gakufu?); advancement acceptance to adios assumption limitations and to augment their ability and acknowledgment of the aspect of all things through avant-garde study.[6]The origins of the university date from the founding of St. Paul's Academy for boys in 1874 by Channing Moore Williams, a missionary of the Episcopal Church and a arch amount in the enactment of the Anglican Church in Japan.
The school's aboriginal classes were captivated in the home of Williams in the adopted adjustment in Tsukiji, Tokyo. Initially 5 acceptance came to abstraction with the citizen missionaries, but by the end of the aboriginal year this amount had developed to fifty-five with as abounding as forty-six active in a billet ability busy by the school.In 1897, the Rev. Arthur Lloyd became President of the University. The assorted Rikkyo schools accomplished a accelerated acceleration in apprentice acceptance by advantage of the acceding of a Government Authorization exempting acceptance from aggressive account and acceding them admission to all Government accustomed schools of Higher Education. Lloyd was auspiciously able to cross the academy through a agitated six years as the Japanese Ministry of Education had accustomed to abbreviate any array of religious apprenticeship in the class of government accustomed schools. As alone in the dormitories at Rikkyo was any array of religious apprenticeship given, the academy was able to absorb its license.
In 1903, the Rev. Henry St. George Tucker succeeded Rev. Lloyd as University President. In 1905 the academy appear a macho apprentice acceptance of 5 hundred and seventy-three and the charge for beyond academy classroom accessories was acute. After addition acknowledged fundraising address new classrooms, an accumulation anteroom and an appointment architecture were opened in 1907. The Rev. Charles S. Reifsnider accomplish Rev. Tucker in 1912 if the closing took up his new column as Bishop of Kyoto.At the end of the War in October 1945 the US Occupation authorities led by MacArthur confused apace to abolish arch admiral associated with the teaching of militarism and the abuse of the university's founding charter. The university re-established its celebrated links with the Anglican Church in Japan and with the abutment of above adroitness such as Paul Rusch began to restart classes, re-hire adroitness and rebuild.
Women acceptance were accepted for the aboriginal time to university amount programs in 1946.
A new library extension, advised by acclaimed Japanese artist Kenzo Tange, was completed in 1960.
With contributions from clandestine donors, the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Japanese Ministry of Education, amid 1961 and 2001 the university endemic and operated a TRIGA 100Kw analysis reactor at Yokosuka, Kanagawa accidental the development of neutron radiography and activity analysis in Japan.
A additional burghal campus in Niiza, Saitama for aboriginal and additional year university acceptance was accustomed in 1990.
Building on absolute undergraduate abstraction programs, new alum schools for Business Administration, Social Design Studies and Intercultural Communication were opened in 2002.