is a

private university Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money ...

Mitaka, Tokyo 260px, Inokashira Park in Mitaka is a city in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 190,403, and a population density of 12,000 persons per km². The total area of the city was . Geography Mit ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1930, and it was chartered as a university in 1949. Tokyo Union Theological Seminary is a

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of the

United Church of Christ in Japan The United Church of Christ in Japan (UCCJ; ja, 日本基督教団 ''Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan'', or ''Kyōdan'' for short) is the largest Protestant denomination in Japan. It is a union of thirty-three diverse Protestant denominations forcibly mer ...

Faculty

Kazoh Kitamori was a Japanese theologian, pastor, author, professor, and churchman. His most famous work in the West is ''The Theology of the Pain of God'', which was published in 1946 in Japan and in the United States in 1965. He was a longtime professor at Tok ...

, author of ''Theology of the Pain of God''

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