[2] It is a Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (私立在外教育施設) or an overseas branch of a Japanese private school.

[1] The school is an affiliated educational institution of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (the Anglican Church in Japan) and shares its name with Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

Initially the school used Pallinghurst House, constructed in 1902 as its classrooms, dining hall, dormitories, chapel, and staff room.

It was the only Japanese high school outside Japan until the 1986 opening of the Lycée Seijo in France.

[7] At one time the school had proposed some staff residences that the planning committee of the Hambledon Rural Council did not approve of.