In a corner of St. Luke's College of Nursing, which has the first four-year nursing department and a graduate school doctorate in Japan, is located in a corner of St. Luke's International Hospital. This university became a university in 1964, but was originally founded in 1920 (Daisho 9) as a high school nurse attached to St. Luke International Hospital. If 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 here in 1858 (Ansei 5). There is the Nakatsu clan residence on the site, and the translation of dismantled Shinsho is also performed around here.
In 1869 (Meiji 2), foreign settlements were opened in the gunshot, and many missionary halls and churches were built here until the abolition of exotic rights in 1899 (Meiji 32). And the missionaries began teaching as part of missionary work. Among them, there are the following schools.
Women's Academy in 1870 (Meiji 3), Rikkyo Gakuin in 1874 (Meiji 7), the predecessor of Meiji Gakuin in 1877 (Meiji 10), one of the predecessors of Tokyo Matching Shin School and Aoyama Gakuin, Kaigan Girls' School was established near Akashicho. In 1879 (Meiji 12), Rikkyo Jogakuin relocated 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), Women's Seigakuin and many other schools still remain here.
There were many naval schools in Tsukiji and Akashicho. In 1857 (Ansei 4), a warship training center was established. As a result, a naval military dormitory was built around the current National Cancer Center Hospital in 1876 (Meiji 9), and in 1908 (Meiji 41), the Naval Medical School was established in the same place. In Naval Seki, the Naval Accounting School was opened in 1874 (Meiji 7), and the later Naval Accounting School was also opened in Tsukiji.
Except for St. Luke's College of Nursing, schools at that time moved from Tsukiji to various places due to the effects of the Great Kanto Earthquake. If the school remained as it was at that time, it would be interesting to think that the area around Tsukiji and Akashicho would have become a school city that surpassed the Tsukuba Gakuen City.
