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Rikkyo University (Japan)

立教大学

image by Shunsuke Omachi, 30 June 2023

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Sport flags

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The Flag

Located in Toshima City Tokyo and established in 1922. It is also known as Saint Paul's University. The university flag has purple (DIC 226) background with a white cross and gold (DIC 86) kanji initial立 at the canton. It has the ratios of 5:7 or 2:3. The color purple is derived from "Murasaki," a typical plant of Musashino, which is also used in the school's song, "Murasaki Nioeru Musashinohara," and is also the color of champions. The white color symbolizes purity and justice, the cross represents Jesus Christ and his love, and the gold color of "立" symbolizes true values to be pursued through research and education. The university flag was designed and adopted in 1924 by former university presidents Bishop Raiffeisen Snyder and Teijiro Sugiura.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 30 June 2023 and Zachary Harden, 29 August 2023

Sport flags

image by Shunsuke Omachi, 14 November 2023

Kendo club; The club flag has purple background with a white cross and yellow kanji ? at the canton and horizontally written kanji university and club name in white.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 November 2023