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

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

, in

Ikebukuro is a commercial and entertainment district in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. Toshima ward offices, Ikebukuro station, and several shops, restaurants, and enormous department stores are located within city limits. It is considered the second larges ...

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, Japan. 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 , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endow ...

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

Meiji University , abbreviated as Meiji (明治) or Meidai (明大'')'', is a private research university located in Chiyoda City, the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1881 as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, ''Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō'') by three Meij ...

, and

Hosei University is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan. The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of l ...

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

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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 University's deviation value is in the top 10 in the ranking of private universities in Japan.

Rikkyo Gakuin

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 1923 Great Kantō eart ...

, and

Rikkyo Niiza Junior and Senior High School is a private boys' junior and senior high school in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, in the Tokyo metropolitan area. It is affiliated with Rikkyo University. First established at Ikebukuro in 1948, Rikkyo Senior High School moved to a new camp ...

are affiliated with Rikkyo Gakuin. They are all-male schools. The Rikkyo Gakuin is an educational institution, which includes Rikkyo University and other affiliated schools. The

Rikkyo School in England is a Japanese boarding primary and secondary school in Rudgwick, Horsham District, West Sussex. The school uses the Japanese curriculum,St. Margaret's Elementary School, St. Margaret's Junior & Senior High School, and St. Hilda's Junior & Senior High School are affiliated with the Rikkyo Gakuin. St. Margaret's Schools, also known as Rikkyo Girls' Schools, are all-female academic institutions, as is St. Hilda's.

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 (United States), Episcopal Church missionary, later bishop, in China and Japan. Williams was a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japa ...

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

Anglican Church in Japan The ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'' ( ja, 日本聖公会, translit=Nippon Seikōkai, lit=Japanese Holy Catholic Church), abbreviated as NSKK, sometimes referred to in English as the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan, is the national Christianity, Christi ...

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

foreign settlement A foreign settlement ({{Lang-ja, 外国人居留地, pronounced "Gaikokujin kyoryūchi") was a special area in a treaty port, designated by the Japanese government in the second half of the nineteenth century, to allow foreigners to live and work. ...

Tsukiji Tsukiji (築地) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Literally meaning "reclaimed land", it lies near the Sumida River on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the 18th century during the Edo period. The eponymous Tsukiji fish market opened in ...

, 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 James McDonald Gardiner (May 22, 1857 – November 25, 1925) was an American architect, lay Anglican church missionary and educator who lived and worked in Japan during the Meiji period. Early life and education Born May 22, 1857 in St. Loui ...

to supervise, new three-story brick facilities with an imposing 60-foot spire were constructed. Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tsukiji

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 is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi (in Kita-ku) and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers. It passes through the Kita, Adachi, Araka ...

. 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.

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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 Henry St. George Tucker may refer to: * Henry St George Tucker (financier) (1771–1851), Bermudian financier and official of the East India Company * Henry St. George Tucker Sr. (1780–1848), U.S. representative from Virginia * Henry St. George T ...

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 Charles Shriver Reifsnider (November 27, 1875 – March 16, 1958) was the Anglican bishop of North Tokyo in the Anglican Church in Japan, Nippon Sei Ko Kai from 1935 to 1940. During his mission years in Japan from 1904 to 1941 he also serv ...

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 struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive firestorms an ...

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 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

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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

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, 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

Yokosuka, Kanagawa is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of . The total area is . Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region. The c ...

contributing the development of

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and energy research in Japan. A second suburban campus in

Niiza is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 166,208 in 76,639 households and a population density of 7300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Niiza is located at the southernmost tip ...

, 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

Faculties

* Law and Politics * Arts * Intercultural Communication * Business * Science * Sociology * Economics * Tourism * Community and Human Services * Contemporary Psychology * Global Liberal Arts Program

Graduate schools

* Business * International Business (

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) * 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 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 Samuel Livingston Mather (July 13, 1851 – October 18, 1931) was an American industrialist and philanthropist from Cleveland, Ohio. He co-founded Pickands Mather and Company, a shipping and iron mining company which dominated these two Great ...

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

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 , better known by the pen name was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the le ...

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

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: member of the

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( Liberal Democratic Party) *

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, F ...

- Film director *

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

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

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- 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 is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a former Senator in the House of Councillors of the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Rikkyo University and received a master's degree from the Universit ...

: member of the

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in the Diet (

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) *

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: real estate entrepreneur *

Tsutomu Kawabuchi Tsutomu Kawabuchi ( ja, 河渕務; 16 May 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a Japanese ice hockey player, coach and administrator. He won Japanese hockey championships as a player and as a coach with Iwakura, and later coached the Japan men's natio ...

: member of the

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- Film director *

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- Radio and television announcer *

Shinkichi Mitsumune Shinkichi Mitsumune (光宗信吉 Mitsumune Shinkichi) (born October 8, 1963) is a Japanese composer who writes music primarily for anime. Biography Mitsumune is a native of Fukuoka City in Fukuoka Prefecture and a graduate of Rikkyo University ...

- 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 app ...

- 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 is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager. Biography Nagashima played baseball at his local high school, and on the Rikkyo University baseball team from 1954–1957. He joined the Yomiuri Giants in 1958. His jersey number ( ...

- 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. 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 Chiba, with whom she co-starred in the TV series '' Key Hunter'' ...

- 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 University, he ...

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

Akira Sakuma (also known by the abbreviated name ''Momotetsu'') is a long-running board game-style video game series in Japan; in which players travel by rail, ship, and airplane; attempting to acquire wealth through business transactions buying properties; ...

- 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 ro ...

- SongWriter, Musician *

Makoto Shinozaki (born 1963 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Tokyo, Shinozaki attended Rikkyo University, where he studied under Shigehiko Hasumi, made 8mm films, and appeared in the then amateur works of other Rikkyo graduates such as K ...

- 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 fil ...

- 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 *

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- Film director *

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- Baseball player of the

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, former Eiō title holder. *

Masami Tanabu is 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 elected to the House of Councillors for t ...

: former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan) *

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

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- Poet *

Osamu Uno thumb is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Rubeshibe, Hokkaido, raised in Tokyo and graduate of Rikkyo University, he was elected to ...

: member of the House of Representatives (Liberal Democratic Party) * Asako Yuzuki - Author *

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- Chinese writer, the younger brother of

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(Zhou Shuren) *

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- Singer-Songwriter

Recipients of honorary degrees

Henry St. George Tucker (bishop) Henry St. George Tucker (July 16, 1874 – August 8, 1959) was the 19th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Early life and career Tucker's parents were Episcopal priest, and later Bishop of Southern Virgin ...

- the 19th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1958) *

Arthur C. Lichtenberger Arthur Carl Lichtenberger (January 8, 1900 – September 3, 1968) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He served as Bishop of Missouri from 1952 to 1959, and as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1958 to 1964. ...

- bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (1959) *

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...

- American economist (1963) *

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek ...

- 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 cul ...

- United States ambassador to Japan (1965) * Joseph Kitagawa - dean of University of Chicago Divinity School(1977) *

Hanna Holborn Gray Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930) is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History ''Emerita'' at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the University of Chicago, from 197 ...

- president of the University of Chicago (1979) *

Robert Runcie Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, (2 October 1921 – 11 July 2000) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely ...

- Archbishop of Canterbury (1987) *

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- United States Ambassador to Japan (2000) *

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

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Rikkyo University
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Rikkyo Gakuin

History

Founding

New campus and elevation to university status

Post-war period

Recent developments

Organization

Faculties

Graduate schools

Research laboratories

Center for Interdisciplinary Research institutes

Other research institutes

Library

Ikebukuro campus

Niiza Campus

Students

Events

World Congress

Sports

Alumni

Recipients of honorary degrees

International exchanges

See also

References

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