High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tohoku Gakuin University is a private university in Sendai, Japan. It was founded under a Christian background (specifically the German Reformed Church, now they are merged into the United Church of Christ in the United States).The university was founded in 1886 (Meiji 19) by Protestants as Sendai Theological Seminary. The first president was Oshikawa Masayoshi, ex-samurai in Matsuyama and one of the first Protestants in Japan. In 1891, the school was renamed Tohoku Gakuin and a course for non-Christian students was added.