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The International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) at Yamanashi Gakuin University is a four- year, liberal arts college in Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan. The language of instruction is English, with the exception of some Japanese language and cultural courses. International students study Japanese language alongside their degree studies, starting from any level, even complete beginner. Students can choose from a wide array of courses in various disciplines, learning from an intuitive and practical curriculum which incorporates one year studying abroad at one of our 70+ partner universities in more than 30 countries around the world. The innovative courses taught at iCLA lea…
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With the start of the 21st century, the international community entered an era where the growth of emerging economies, such as BRICS and Southeast Asian nations, holds the key to globalization. Latin American and African countries also look poised to enter a period of growth shortly. Yokohama National University (YNU) calls this era the "new global age." We seek sustainable development for the world and Japan by focusing our attention on emerging economies in Asia and beyond. To be successful in this new global age requires a thorough understanding of the cultures, religions, and systems of emerging economies. In this context, what will be critical is education and rese…
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With the westernization during the Meiji era, Yokohama began to change dramatically. Yokohama has always been a center of commerce. At the time, the city was the first location where a railroad was founded and was the birthplace of a daily newspaper and photographs. Even today, Yokohama never ceases to attract attention as a pioneer in business, design, and tourism due to development in the Minatomirai district. Our educational foundation is based on nurturing human beings who sincerely make relentless efforts in academics and research and devote themselves to their formation and growth as human beings. Our college opened in 1966 as the predecessor Yokohama Shoka Junior…
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YCU began incorporating global education ahead of other universities in FY2005, but going forward, I hope to boost the development of the university's distinctive attributes. I am confident that YCU's presence will grow by further reinforcing and sharing with as many people as possible our initiatives that leverage the characteristics unique to YCU, such as the Advanced Medical Research Center that conducts world-class research in medicine and life sciences, the Global Cooperation Institute for Sustainable Cities that strives to resolve urban issues concentrated in Asia, and the program to achieve a Center of Community (COC) program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, …
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Nishiyamato Gakuen High School was established about 30 years ago as the first educational institution operated by Nishiyamato Gakuen. The school started with nothing but the faculty's unrivaled passion, who used all their strength and effort to help the students make their dreams come true. Of course, the remarkable progress that Nishiyamato Gakuen achieved needs no explanation. Passion is the keyword in the running of every school operated by Nishiyamato Gakuen. We at Nishiyamato Gakuen strongly believe that education needs passion at any age, no matter how society changes. To achieve this dream, Nishiyamato Gakuen established Nishiyamato Academy of California about 2…
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Yamanashi Prefectural University welcomes the community and strives to contribute to vibrant advances through its "glocal" wisdom, which combines global and regional perspectives. As globalization expands rapidly, each local community today must tackle issues such as worsening environmental problems, diversifying market fundamentals, and deciphering technology's advantages and disadvantages from a global point of view. In a natural, industrial, and socially abundant environment like this, YPU is pursuing the university education "as a stronghold of glocal wisdom, can nurture future practical leaders, and is open to the community and faces local society," thereby trying …
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Yamanashi Eiwa College is a small private college that provides an exceptional education based on Christianity's spirit for undergraduate and graduate students. It originated from the Yamanashi Eiwa Girl's School, founded by Canadian Methodist missionaries in 1889. Now we provide learning and engagement opportunities that span the prefecture, the nation, and the world. Our campus is full of flowers and trees, comprised of European-style buildings in the foothills of mountains, which provide beautiful views of Kofu City, Mt. Fuji, and the Japan Southern Alps. This is a place of educational transformation. We keep a Christian spirit with three school mottoes of Respect fo…
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Yamaguchi University is the third oldest national comprehensive university in Japan, tracing its roots back to Yamaguchi Kodo, a private school established in 1815. It celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2015. The local area still holds the Meiji Restoration spirit, and the university challenges itself to stand up in the world. These values are reflected in the university motto: "Discover it. Nourish it. Realize it. A Place of Wisdom." The university administration works to adapt to the requirements of the times, continually pursuing innovation as it works to develop human resources and provide education and research that will contribute to the local community and interna…
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Yamaguchi Prefectural University (YPU) is located in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in the western part of Japan's main island between Hiroshima Prefecture and Fukuoka Prefecture. Yamaguchi Prefecture has easy access to Japan's main cities via bullet train, airplane, or car. It takes one and a half hours by plane or approximately five hours by bullet train from Tokyo to Yamaguchi. It is three hours from Kyoto/Osaka by bullet train. Yamaguchi is connected to Kyushu by a beautiful bridge crossing over the Kamon Straights and is only about half an hour from Fukuoka by bullet train. They are taught by 120 full-time teaching staff. The student-teacher ratio is low, …
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As one of the best national comprehensive universities in northern Japan, Yamagata University fosters human resources to solve problems and innovate new technologies for local and global societies. Offering various courses, we are dedicated to creating high-quality environments that meet their learning needs and interests. Yamagata University has produced many distinguished graduates, carrying on the tradition treasured since back in the five predecessor schools. Yamagata University has four campuses spread throughout Yamagata Prefecture. By networking and enhancing collaboration among these campuses, YU offers educational programs and research projects, making full …
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Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences (YPUHS) was initially founded in 1954 as Yamagata Prefectural Advanced Nursing School. In April 1997, the nursing school was reorganized to a 3-years system college for health professions, including registered nurses, public health nurses, midwives, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. The college was then expanded as a university of 4-years system consisting of the Department of Nursing, the Department of Physical Therapy, and the Department of Occupational Therapy in April 2000. A Graduate School of Health Sciences was also established in 2004. We will provide broad-based education, whole-hearted human…
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Founded in 1897, Wayo Women's University has a history of 115 years. From the start, we have upheld the philosophy of "Japanese Spirit with Western Techniques." We highly regard the adoption of advanced Western ideas while maintaining our rich traditions and cultural values. Since the Meiji era, Wayo has contributed to society's growth by sending forth many graduates who possess advanced skills and high moral standards. In the 21st century, we have seen the onset of a dramatic change in society's structure. This has created the necessity for people to live amid diverse values, and within this coexistence, discover new values. As a result, there has been a significant…
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Waseda's culture and traditions have evolved over more than a century, but its founding principles remain firm, and the Waseda spirit lives in the hearts of over 500,000 alumni. Here we present the changing, the unchanged, the little-known, and the lovable about Waseda. On Waseda University's 30th anniversary in October 1913, President Shigenobu Okuma proclaimed its newly adopted Mission Statement. As the introductory statement of its educational policy, the mission was drafted by Sanae Takata, Shoyo Tsubouchi, Kenkichi Ichijima, Kazutami Ukita, Yasukuni Matsudaira, and their colleagues, and approved by Okuma before its presentation at the anniversary celebration. I…
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WBS started as a business education program (non-degree program) at the Systems Science Institute of Waseda University in 1973. Since then, it has gone through some reorganization from being a Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies to offering an MBA Track at the Graduate School of Commerce. Waseda Business School (WBS) aims to support those who aspire to a step-up in their career and plan to start a new career by studying at a business school. Our society today is undergoing rapid change. The world is globalizing, new technologies are appearing successively, and the market is changing. In order to survive in the global competitive environment, management knowledge of …
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In April of this year, 2018, Wakayama Medical University will initiate its third interim plan setting concrete objectives for six years. As we work toward the significant milestone of the 80th anniversary of this university's founding in 2025, it is as if we were making a new start under the slogan "To be a university that spreads its wings to soar out into the world with the community." Wakayama Medical University aims to contribute to local development efforts and the health and welfare of the people in the world by conducting researches both in primary and general areas of medicine and in highly specialized areas, helping our students and staff become highly ethic…
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At Utsunomiya University (UDAI), we cherish the "3C Spirit." The 3 C's are "Challenge," "Change," and "Contribution." We are pioneering a bright future by actively challenging new things, constantly changing ourselves to adapt to these changing times, and generously contributing to our society. We firmly resolve to cultivate this spirit and make it a vital part of our University's culture. We, both students and faculty, working together, will be at the forefront of our future society. To reach this goal, we are improving our education system with new programs so that our students can develop "Active Intelligence." One of these new programs is the nationally-famous En…
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The University of Yamanashi respects an individual and the freedom of academic inquiry and the pursuit of truth. We proactively accept diverse cultures and values. The University of Yamanashi is a place where people with healthy minds are developed into individuals ready to respond to society's demands in pursuit of broad knowledge and deep expertise. Our graduates are prepared to become community leaders and contribute to global peace and everyone's welfare. At the University of Yamanashi, we aim to nurture students and teachers with a high level of culture and ethics and broad cultural experiences and deep expertise. Our graduates can become part of the commun…
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The radical transformation of global society has brought confusion and unrest to our lives. In our global society, problems such as pollution, infectious diseases, financial crisis, and terrorism have been spreading beyond national boundaries in no time. Solving problems concerning energy and the environment, or industrial and economic revitalization, needs to be shared globally. Solutions for the issues above will require innovation that surpasses contemporary convention. The University of Tsukuba was reborn in 1973 as a comprehensive university based on new educational concepts. It has inherited the traditions of its predecessors, starting with the Normal School, foun…
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The University of Toyama is located in Toyama City and Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, located on the West Coast, in Japan. Toyama Prefecture is a local district with changes of the seasons where the Tateyama mountain range is in the south and Toyama Bay, on the Sea of Japan, to the north. The University of Toyama is a university comprised of 3 former national universities Toyama University, Toyama Medical, Pharmaceutical University, and Takaoka National College were integrated in October 2005. This integrated University houses eight faculties, six graduate schools, the University Laboratory, Hospital, and Library, and 12 institutes such as the Center for Internat…
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The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national University in Japan. As a leading research university, UTokyo offers courses in virtually all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and researches the full spectrum of academic activity. The University aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills. The University of Tokyo aims to be a world-class platform for research and education, contributing to human knowledge in partnership with other leading global universities. The University of Tok…
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The University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, has maintained its commitment towards Liberal Arts education since it was founded six decades ago. The current changes in society, along with the surge of unpredictable events in which people are required to survive the times by supporting one another, calls for an urgent need to educate the people to broaden their scope to be more flexible in making responsible decisions, which is what a Liberal Arts education is set to offer. The strength of such a curriculum will be an asset for the students not merely in their professional careers but the very source of power to lead a full life. The University of the Sacred Heart bases …
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The founding philosophy of the University of the Ryukyus, established on May 22nd of 1950, is "Freedom and Equality, Peace and Tolerance," which reflects the principles of Abraham Lincoln. Based on this philosophy, the University of the Ryukyus has set as its guiding principles the "pursuit of truth," "contributions to society, locally as well as internationally," and the "pursuit of peace and coexistence." The University continues to endeavor to uphold its future vision as "an institution with both local and global features that functions as an outstanding education and research hub in the Asia-Pacific region," It has been making steady progress towards these goals. …
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The primary goal of the University of Teacher Education Fukuoka is to train teachers who are rich in knowledge and full of teaching practical skills at undergraduate and postgraduate schools. The RCTP has several roles, namely, leading Faculty Development at Fukuoka University of Education, supporting and implementing our students’ practice teaching (kyoikujisshu) as well as developing the teaching of and research about multi-disciplinary subjects such as Human Rights and Dowa Education, Life Environment Studies (Seikatsuka), hours for comprehensive studies (Sogotekina-gakushu-no-jikan) and the school librarians’ licensing course. Center for H…
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The University of Shizuoka was founded in 1987 in Yada, Shizuoka City, where majestic Mt. Fuji can be seen. As Shizuoka Prefecture's highest learning institution, the University has been a center for advanced education and research and has contributed to the local and global community ever since then. Thousands of people who graduated in the Shizuoka Prefectural University Corporation history have been active and out of the prefecture. From the Shizuoka Women's Pharmaceutical School as a source, the University has a history of women's higher education from the early stage. Also, there is a philosophy of the University that is proud of the people of Shizuoka prefectur…
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We keep a close eye on worker's health and the environment from a medical perspective. The University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, as an educational institution for the training of qualified occupational physicians and the promotion of occupational health, was established in 1978 under the enactment of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in 1972 for the securement of occupational physicians experienced in occupational health management. By this act, every company over a particular scale is obliged to appoint a physician for managing the healthcare of its workers. The purpose for which the university was established is twofold. The other is to contri…
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