Rikkyo University

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Rikkyo University
立教大学
Motto	Pro Deo et Patria- "For God and Country"
Established	Founded 1874, Chartered 1922
Type	Private
President	Hideitsu Ohashi[1]
Academic staff	510 full-time,[2] 1,432 part-time[2]
Undergraduates	18,500[3]
Postgraduates	1500[3]
Location	Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban
Endowment	US$435.1 million (JP¥50.3 billion)
Mascot	None
Website	rikkyo.ac.jp

Rikkyo University (立教大学, Rikkyō daigaku^?), also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, based on Christian precepts, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. There is a suburban campus in Niiza in nearby Saitama.It is known for its liberal climate symbolized by the motto "academy of freedom" (自由の学府, jiyuu-no-gakufu^?)

History

The university was founded in 1874 by Channing Moore Williams, who was a missionary of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Now it is the largest Anglican university in Japan. Faculties of social and natural science have been also established.

Rikkyo University

Organization

Faculties

• Law and Politics
• Arts
• Intercultural Communication
• Business
• Science
• Sociology
• Economics
• Tourism
• Community and Human Services
• Contemporary Psychology

Graduate schools

• Business
• Law School
• Law and Politics
• Economics
• Arts
• Science
• Sociology
• Tourism
• Community and Human Services
• Contemporary Psychology
• Christian Studies
• Business Administration (MBA)
• Social Design Studies
• Intercultural Communication

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 Main Library or Mather Library was built in 1918. The collection contains over 1.7 million volumes of print and non-print materials, including the Protestant Episcopal Church collection and Edogawa Rampo collection.^[4]

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; however, male students outnumber female students at the graduate level.^[5]

Events

Every year around November, this university hosts its St. Paul's festival. Students prepare food and entertainment for other students, alumni as well as local community. University bands play and famous singers sometimes attend. During this 3-day event, a Miss Rikkyo & Mr. Rikkyo contest takes place.

World Congress

• 2014 International Ornithological Congress

Sports

Rikkyo's baseball team plays in the Tokyo Big Six 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.^[6]
• Rikkyo University also fields a strong program in women's lacrosse.

Alumni

The following are famous alumni of St. Pauls:

• Masami Tanabu - former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
• Jiro Akama - member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
• Osamu Uno - member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
• Tetsuma Esaki - member of House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
• Ryosei Tanaka - member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
• Mineyuki Fukuda - member of the House of Representatives (the Liberal Democratic Party)
• Tadashi Inuzuka - member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (Democratic Party of Japan)
• Toshio Ogawa - former Senior Vice-Minister of Justice (Japan), member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (Democratic Party of Japan)
• Masao Ishii - Chairman of the Joint Staff Council of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
• Mineo Miyawaki - former vice-Director of National Diet Library in Japan
• Yūsuke Hatano - President with the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
• Tadashi Nagano - President with the Keio Corporation
• Jyunji Narita - President with the Hakuhodo
• Toyohiko Yamauchi - President with the Kyodo News
• Fukuzo Iwasaki - Real estate entrepreneur
• Mitsuo Matsushita - Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo, Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO
• Yasuhiro Omori - Professor Emeritus of National Museum of Ethnology, Professor Emeritus of Graduate University for Advanced Studies
• Suguru Sasaki - Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
• Hiroto Tahara - former President of Utsunomiya University
• Yasuhide Nakagawa - former President of Hokkaido University of Education, former President of International Christian University, Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University
• Joseph M. Kitagawa - Professor of The University of Chicago
• Minoru Sanada - Professor of University of Wales
• Ryō Ikebe - Actor
• Yuka Murayama - Author
• Yōko Nogiwa - Actress
• Akira Sakuma - Game producer
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Film director
• Shinji Aoyama - Film director
• Toshio Gotō - Film director
• Makoto Shinozaki - Film director
• Akihiko Shiota - Film director
• Masayuki Suō - Film director
• Tatsuya Mori - Documentary filmmaker
• Shigeo Nagashima - Baseball player and manager of the Yomiuri Giants
• Kazuhito Tadano - Baseball player of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
• Tomoko Honda - Television announcer
• Youka Konno - Idol and talent
• Monta Mino - Radio and television announcer
• Shinkichi Mitsumune - Composer
• Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographer
• Rei Nakanishi - Japanese novelist
• Yun Tong-ju* - Poet
• Zhou Zuoren* - Chinese writer, the younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren)

* Did not graduate.

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)
• 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)
• Muhammad Yunus - founder of the Grameen Bank (2007)

International exchanges

• The University of Chicago,  United States
• Cornell University,  United States
• Kent State University,  United States
• Linfield College,  United States
• University of Maryland,  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^{[disambiguation needed ]},  Canada
• Université de Sherbrooke,  Canada
• University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science,  Canada
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium
• Jean Moulin University Lyon 3,  France
• Pantheon-Assas Paris II University,  France
• Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales,  France
• Humboldt University,  Germany
• University of Tübingen,  Germany
• University of Bonn,  Germany
• 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 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
• Padjadjaran University,  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
• University of New South Wales,  Australia
• Murdoch University,  Australia
• Cuttington University,  Liberia

References

1. ^ "Message from the President" (accessed 6 July 2009).
2. ^ ^{a b} "Rikkyo Data" (accessed 6 July 2009).
3. ^ ^{a b} After rounding to the nearest hundred. "Rikkyo Data" (accessed 10 February 2010).
4. ^ http://english.rikkyo.ac.jp/research/library/ (accessed 10 February 2010)
5. ^ http://english.rikkyo.ac.jp/aboutus/profile/data/. (accessed 10 February 2010)
6. ^ http://www.koshienbowl.jp/2009/info/kantob.html (accessed 10 February 2010)

External links

• Rikkyo University

Coordinates: 35°43′50″N 139°42′14″E / 35.7305178556°N 139.703953°E / 35.7305178556; 139.703953