In one corner of St. Luke's International Hospital is the St. Luke's College of Nursing, which is Japan's first four-year nursing department and a graduate doctoral program. The university became a university in 1964, but was originally established in 1920 as the High School of Nursing at St. Luke International Hospital. When you walk around that area, you can see many monuments to the birthplace of many existing universities and schools throughout the Kanto region.
In the old one, Keio Gijuku was opened in this area in 1858. There is the Nakatsu clan residence on the site, and translations of the new book of dismantling are carried out around here.
In 1869, a foreign settlement was opened in the Gunsho, and many missionaries and churches were built there until the abolition of the extraterritorial law in 1899. And the missionaries began teaching as part of their missionary work. Among them are the following schools.
Shojo Gakuin in 1870, Rikkyo Gakuin in 1874, Meiji Gakuin in 1877, the predecessor of Meiji Gakuin in 1877, and one of the predecessors of Aoyama Gakuin in 1877, Kaigan Girls' School was established near Akashicho. In 1879, Rikkyo Jogakuin moved from Yushima. In 1895 (Meiji 28), Kanto Junior High School, which can be said to be the headwater of Kanto Gakuin, and in 1905 (Meiji 38), Shogakusei Gakuin, and many schools that still remain, left footprints in this area.
Tsukiji and Akashicho also had a variety of naval schools. In 1857, a warship training station was established. Because of this, the Naval Military School was established in 1876 around the present Central Hospital of the National Cancer Center, and in 1908, the Naval Medical School was established in the same place. In 1874, Naval Accounting School and later Naval Accounting School were also established in Tsukiji.
Except for St. Luke's College of Nursing, schools at that time later moved from Tsukiji to various places due to the effects of the Great Kanto Earthquake. It would be interesting to think that if the school remained as it was at that time, the area around Tsukiji and Akashicho would have become a school city that surpassed Tsukuba Gakuen City.
