Religion: University of Tomorrow

As the Japanese Treaty went into effect, new tenants took up residence last week on the old Tokyo property of the Nakajima Aircraft Co., which turned out fighters during World War II. Seventy-five students (including 17 women) and a 15-man faculty (mostly Americans) began the first classes at Japan's International Christian University.

I.C.U. has been a longtime dream of Japanese Protestants and foreign missionaries. Japan has 37 Christian colleges and universities, but few of them have the resources to compete with the big private or state universities, which are aggressively secular.

After World War...

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