page_title: Saniku Gakuin College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saniku Gakuin College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The cafeteria (left) and the Dormitory "Myrte" (right) at Saniku Gakuin College, located in Otaki, Chiba, Japan. 日本語: 千葉県大多喜町、三育学院大学 食堂（左）・ミルテ寮（右）。学園祭（三育祭）で入構。
context_page_description: Saniku Gakuin College is a co-educational, Christian, private university in Japan. The main campus is located in Ōtaki, Chiba, Japan. The college is a part of the world-wide network of Seventh-day Adventist institutions of higher education, the world's second largest Christian school system.
context_section_description: The history of the college began in 1898 when William C. Grainger, an SDA missionary, founded Shiba Bible School (芝和英聖書学校, Shiba waei seisho gakkō) in Azabu, Tokyo. In 1914 the school was moved to Suginami and renamed Amanuma Gakuin. In 1926 the school was moved to Sodegaura, Chiba and renamed Nihon San’iku Gakuin. The name San’iku (三育), combination of 三 (san, "three") and 育 (iku, "to nourish, to bring up"), means "to make people whole" in physical (corpus), intellectual (mens) and spiritual (spiritus) attributes.
  In 1943, during World War II, the school was forcibly closed. The school was resumed in 1947 after the war. In 1971 the school foundation established Saniku Gakuin Junior College with one department (Department of English Language). In 1978 the college was moved to the present Otaki Campus. In 1987 the college added the Department of Nursing, which became a four-year college in 2008.
caption: Cafeteria
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