T HE plans for the New International Christian University of Japan are progressing. A campus of 350 acres has been purchased at Mitaka near Tokyo. It was the site of a Japanese airplane factory and the buildings are being remodeled to serve the new university. The funds for this beginning, $450,000, 96 per cent of which was given by Japanese who are not adherents of any Christian church, have been gathered in Japan. A campaign to raise $IO,OOO,ooo to supplement these gifts is now under way in the United States and Canada. The University will open on April i, i952. In the meantime, the plan of organization and the program are being formulated. The inclusive purpose of the New International Christian University will be to educate Japanese students who may serve their countrymen as leaders in the transition from authoritarianism to democratic procedures. The program of higher education is to be based on the complementary values of the Christian religion and democratic philosophy. Academic knowledge and skill will be considered not as ends in themselves but as tools in working toward a social order holding sacred the integrity and welfare of the individual, and toward group processes of thought providing the basis for enlightened decision and responsible action. The hopes of the founders aspire to the eventual development of a university which will serve not only Japan but the Orient and will include a graduate school of arts and sciences as well as schools of medicine, engineering, law, business, journalism, and theology. The projected program is now limited to an undergraduate college of liberal arts and three graduate programs leading to Masters' and Doctors' degrees in education, government, and social studies. The College of Liberal Arts has two major purposes. The first is to develop a program of general education appropriate to the needs of students in all walks of life in Japan. In the past, specialization, without general and liberal education, started in pre-college training within the rigid confines of nationalism. What is now most urgently needed and intended is general education which will give students a broad cultural foundation and training in free and independent thinking for responsible citizenship. It is the belief of many leaders in Japan that the existing educational institutions will find it a difficult task and a slow process to rise above the restrictions of tradition. They believe, however, that this new university, unfettered