Friends School (Japan)
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Friends School (Japan) is a women's junior and senior high school (7th - 12th grades), authorised by the Japanese Education Law, of Religious Society of Friends in Tokyo, Japan.
In 1887, Women Evangelical Friends from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA founded it for the purpose of education for women on the advice of Uchimura Kanzō and Nitobe Inazo. The School is still the only Friends' educational organisation in Japan. Whilst all the pupils are not Friends, they receive education about of Quakerism including about Inner light.
The School says that the name in Japanese (普連土) means "universal connection with all global places." This is derived from an idea of Tsuda Sen who is the father of Tsuda Umeko, the founder of Tsuda College.
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