Japan International Christian University Foundation.

Supported the International Christian University in Tokyo.

From the description of Records of the Japan International Christian University Foundation, Inc., 1948-1968 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152255

Discussions that led to the establishment of The International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan began only months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The discussions began with the board of trustees of Tokyo Woman's Christian College but soon included a larger group of Japanese Christian leaders. An American deputation sent to Japan in October, 1945 by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in North America and the Foreign Missions Conference of North America joined the discussions and returned to America with the vision of facilitating the creation of a new Christian university in Japan.

The Federal Council and the Foreign Missions Conference formed a "Joint Committee for a Christian University in Japan" in March, 1947. While planning for the establishment of the university went on in Japan, the American committee developed a structure to provide advice and financial support. In January, 1948 the International Christian University Research Institute, an embyro form of the University, was inaugurated. In November, 1948 the Joint Committee was dissolved into a legal foundation, the Japan Christian University Foundation, Incorporated (the word "International" was inserted later).

On June 15, 1949 the constitution of the International Christian University was adopted and four years later the first freshman class was admitted to its College of Liberal Arts. In 1957 the first graduate school of the ICU, the School of Education, was opened. By the 1990s, ICU was a highly distinguished university with more than 2,000 students.(A full history of the university is available in Charles W. Iglehart's Intrenational Christian University - An Adventure in Christian Hihger Education in Japan, Tokyo: ICU, 1964).)

The Japan International Christian University Foundation, Inc. provided significant early publicity and financial support for the university, as well as distributing academic materials, sponsoring Western faculty members, and coordinating alumni activities.

Notable leaders of the Foundation are as follows:

Presidents:

Executive Directors and Executive Secretaries:

The Foundation has its headquarters at 475 Riverside Drive in New York City.

From the guide to the Archives of the Japan International Christian University Foundation, Inc., 1911-1995, (Yale University Divinity School Library)