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Musashino University is a comprehensive educational institute with a rich history and wealth of traditions. The school was established in 1924 by Dr. Junjiro Takakusu, a Buddhist scholar and winner of the Order of Culture, as a Buddhist school connected to the Jodo Shinshu Honganji denomination. In 2004, all departments became coeducational to nurture enlightened students, exhibit strength of character, carve out bright futures, and contribute to society at large. Musashino University is steeped in history and tradition and will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2024. At the center of the school's tradition is the spirit of Buddhism. Musashino Univer…
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Musashino Art University (MAU), located in Tokyo, marked the 80th anniversary of its foundation in 2009. MAU was founded as a private art school and was officially designated as a university in 1962. Currently, MAU is one of Japan's leading art institutes, with over 4,500 students and 2,000 correspondence students. To achieve this, the University is deeply mindful of the need to arm students with a combination of generalist and specialist skills and remain faithful to our founding spirit of providing art education that allows students to function with true freedom as human beings and producing artists of well-rounded erudition. Japanese tertiary education is currently…
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Muroran Institute of Technology (Muroran IT) is a technical institute which is composed of the Faculty of Engineering, a four-year course leading to a Bachelor’s degree, which consists of four departments a Graduate School, which has a two-year course in three divisions for the Master’s degree, and a three-year course in one division for a Doctor’s degree. Muroran IT was founded on the present site in 1949 by the Japanese Government, merging two schools founded in 1887 and 1939, respectively. Muroran IT occupies a 213,813 square-meter campus in Muroran, a city located at the entrance of Uchiura Bay in the southwestern part of Hokkaido. Muroran IT has about 3,300 stu…
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Education at Mukogawa Gakuin aims to nurture women to develop a combination of high intelligence, noble sentiment, and lofty virtues and become constructive members of a peaceful nation and society, following the ideals upon which our nation was founded. In particular, considering the characteristics of a women's public school, we should hold the policy of integrated education, respect the admirable traditional customs of Japanese women, and promote awareness of women's role in Japanese society. With such consciousnesses, Mukogawa Gakuin strives for a culture that fosters respect for individuality and the education of women capable of contributing to a new Japan's foundin…
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Momoyama Gakuin University was founded in 1959. Nearly 7,000 undergraduate students study at the Faculties of Economics, Sociology, Management, International Studies and Liberal Arts, and Law. Momoyama Gakuin University, which is just one part of the educational foundation known collectively as Momoyama Gakuin, has its roots in the Christian evangelizing activity begun in Japan in 1869 by the Church Missionary Society of England. The Rev. C. F. Warren and other missionaries who arrived in Japan in 1873 strongly felt the importance of education for the future of Japan, and in 1884 opened a school for boys in one of the Holy Trinity Church rooms, Osaka. Ever since, despit…
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We strive to educate prospective nurses who can explore the role of nursing and contribute to improving human health and welfare in a variety of settings in our modern society. Based on the dignity of life and the science and art of nursing, we intend to contribute to the development of nursing and its related disciplines. One primary goal of nursing is to help people achieve “a satisfying life in good health with a peaceful mind.” Our university hopes that our students may now lead their patients to live wholesome, healthy lives by sharing with them the joy of nursing from the heart. So, why not come and learn about nursing with us? That will make your happines…
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Miyazaki Municipal University, which has founded a school in 1993, makes "educational emphasis" the feature. The high operational capability of a foreign language and information and the education that grows the vast culture and deep specialty is practiced. I am working on sending of "chi" and production of qualified personnel from the center of Miyazaki-shi as an urban university. It is the mechanism to put a specialty of a language and 3, a cultural specialty, a communication specialty of media and an international politics financial specialty based on the comprehensive education called such liberal arts and learn fixed specialty by the specialty chosen from 3 years. …
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Miyazaki International College (MIC), founded in 1994, was established under the MIC credo, "Respect and Diligence," to cultivate genuinely international individuals. Miyazaki International College and Miyazaki Gakuen Junior College, Miyazaki Gakuen High School, and the Miyazaki Gakuen Junior College-Affiliated Midori Kindergarten and Kiyotake Midori Kindergarten, is sponsored by the Miyazaki Educational Institution (MEI), a chartered educational corporation established in 1939. Miyazaki International College (MIC) was founded to nurture young adults equipped with the fundamental academic skills that will enable them to communicate with others with confidence under a…
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We are dedicated to promoting "Hospitality and Amenity." The university has been a vibrant hub for learning and inspiring research. Its contributions to local communities have been recognized based on its mission and goal of focusing on fostering human resources with a hospitality consciousness, an amenity sensitiveness, and a mix of highly specialized expertise and practical skills. These have enabled the school to lead in the region's development and play an active role in the world. We determined to follow their path and run the university by applying far-sighted measures to meet society's requests in this new era. Mission: "Hospitality" as consideration a…
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The Miyagi University of Education is a teachers' college that has been educating teachers for more than 50 years. Besides having excellent pedagogical skills in their chosen fields, teachers need to possess the qualities required to appropriately consider the wide variety seen in students' academic abilities, behavioral management, stances on various issues, and learning difficulties that appear in the classroom. To attain such traits, it is imperative to receive an education that develops one's qualities as a human: an education our university has provided for more than half a century. Professors at our university offer a warm, friendly atmosphere in their classes in wh…
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Miyagi Gakuin Women's University has a history of over 130 years. It started as Miyagi Girls' School, founded by OSHIKAWA Masayoshi of the Church of Christ in Japan, with missionary William Edwin HOI's missionary. The Girls' School was expanded into a high school and chartered as a private university in 1949. Miyagi Gakuin today comprises a daycare preschool, junior high school, senior high school, university, and graduate school. Today, the university has four faculties (Faculty of Contemporary Business, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Faculty of Arts) with nine departments, and two graduate schools (Research School in the Humanities, Research Sch…
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Let us change the world, beginning from a small community, to create a peaceful and affluent society by thinking of real happiness. In an environment surrounded by abundant nature and mild climate in Southern Kyushu, the Minami Kyushu University provides the students with the education to be a person with creativity, humanity, and good social skills. As well, the university is engaged in the primary and applied study for "food," "green," and "people" to develop human resources that will contribute to society in the specialized fields. We are now facing diversified problems attributed to human beings' existence, such as environmental issues, expanded social gaps, an incr…
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Mie University is located in a beautiful natural environment. It is an environment-friendly University encircled by three green "Sansui," referring to the brilliant green waves in Ise Bay, the fresh greens in the Suzuka and Nunobiki mountains, and the clear green sky with white clouds. In this privileged environment, we foster global human resources to be future leaders in society and conduct research activities based on creative and freewheeling thinking actively. Also, we play a role as a community center of "knowledge," sending vital personnel to society and distributing outstanding research results. Mie University has five faculties of Humanities, Law and Economics …
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This college opened as the first Nursing College (Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing) in Mie Prefecture in 1997, to serve as a base for nursing education and research in the prefecture. Furthermore, in April 2001, we opened the first nursing-related Graduate School (master's course in nursing studies) in Mie Prefecture, putting in place the foundation of an institution for higher nursing education. This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening, during which time we have produced more than 1,500 graduates as nurses, public health nurses, and midwives. A nursing university conducts research activities to establish new knowledge about nursing science…
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Mejiro University was established in 1994 as the fourth institution of learning in the Mejiro Gakuen Educational Foundation. Since that time, it has undergone rapid growth and bold changes. It has evolved into a comprehensive university featuring six faculties and 16 departments and a graduate school composed of seven research schools. The university has two campuses, the "humanities-oriented Shinjuku campus" and the "health science and nursing-oriented Saitama Iwatsuki campus," each of which provides an outstanding education. With a constant grasp on the needs of the times and striving to "educate and send out" people which the world needs, Mejiro University continues to…
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Meisei University was established in 1964 with a mission of "fostering students to achieve self-realization and become people dedicated to society," as a higher education institution of Meisei Gakuen whose philosophy from its establishment was "to foster students to become people dedicated to the world under a philosophy of harmony." This kind of person cannot just be fostered by knowledge through studying alone. It is also necessary to gain the ability to get things done, and the judgment to find, address, and solve problems. These abilities will be fostered when you face the actual issues. To help students to achieve this, Meisei University follows the three educational…
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Meio University was established in 1994 with public funds from Nago City and eleven other townships in northern Okinawa. It then became a public university on April 1, 2010. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the foundation and the university's 5th anniversary of becoming a public university in 2014. Meio University remains dedicated to its founding principles of "Peace, Freedom, and Progress" and its mission of contributing to Okinawa through education and research. Also, our educational goals from the beginning have included preparing our students to play active roles in international communities. In responding to these questions and to meet the needs of the times,…
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The idea of a shared future on this earth is now untenable without environmental consideration of how to wisely use the earth’s limited natural resources. For all the economic developments that have taken place in many countries across the globe, a significant number of problems remain to be dealt with. We see problems to do with unemployment, aging populations, and sluggish economies. Developing nations face social and economic problems. To confront these and help move humankind toward universal prosperity, Meikai University is dedicated to producing well-rounded and open-minded citizens who will work towards a harmonious society and contribute to the public good. As s…
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Meijo University has over 90 years of history that can be traced back to establishing the Nagoya Science and Technology Course in 1926. As one of the largest universities in the Chubu region, Meijo University is a comprehensive learning institution that supports a wide range of academic fields, from the humanities to physical sciences. To foster the next generation's human resources, the university continues to tackle ongoing challenges by further enhancing its campus and creating new faculties. The total number of students (both undergraduate students and graduate students) is 15000, and over 190000 graduates have been serving on the front line in various fields of soc…
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Meiji University was founded in January 1881 as the Meiji Law School by a group of young lawyers barely in their 30's: Tatsuo Kishimoto, Kozo Miyagi, and Misao Yashiro. It was an era characterized by Japan's urgent need to develop as a modern independent nation. The three founded the Meiji Law School in their fervent hope to "foster bright, capable youths who would lead a modern civil society in Japan". Although confronted with countless obstacles and hardships along the way, Meiji University was born as a learning and education site. Continuing its growth without ever ceasing to ring the chimes of liberty, Meiji University has expanded as one of Japan's prominent pr…
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The Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, with the spirit of harmony, aims at developing truly commendable health care staff capable of contributing to medical services with a holistic viewpoint. The Meiji University of Integrative Medicine came into being as part of the parent organization, the educational corporation of Meiji Institute of Oriental Medicine, as Japan’s first three-year college of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in the central district of Kyoto Prefecture, rich in the natural environment, in 1978. In 1983, the college became a four-year University with its present name to meet the demands of society. Cultivating the humane health care workers of the patie…
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Meij Pharmaceutical university has a long history and tradition over 100 years since Shigenobu Onda founded it in 1902. Our University has produced competent and distinguished experts with leadership skills in a wide range of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. We have offered excellent faculty, and distinctive curriculum, and state-of-the-art educational facilities as well. The faculty includes several alumni who work with students very closely and provide a great deal of support. We wish our students to study and spend their college life in our beautiful, spacious campus located in Tokyo's suburb, which brings a quiet and relaxing atmosphere. Newly graduates…
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Meiji Gakuin University traces its origins to the Hepburn School, which was established in the Edo era's closing days. Over its history of more than 150 years, Meiji Gakuin University has supported Japan's globalization by playing a pioneering role in education. The four years you spend as a college undergraduate will be the most memorable time in your life. What awaits you after your experiences among the six faculties and 15 departments is your new self. Meiji Gakuin University places a strong emphasis on international education and exchanges. Meiji Gakuin University provides many opportunities to develop links to the world, through its overseas study program, as a pl…
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Since the University's founding, the school's three precepts of "Truthful," "Useful," and "Faithful" have been carried on without a break in a liberal academic environment. Matsuyama University is engaged in the development of extensive educational initiatives aimed at creating talented individuals who will be able to contribute to society. It does so by implementing a curriculum which is ahead of the times while also responding to the needs of the times, a curriculum which considers the cultivation of a comprehensive vision and in which students come in contact not only with specialized knowledge but also diverse ways of thinking through close communication with fellow s…
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The term "modern democracy" is included in the founding principles of this University. Therefore, strength, persistence, and cooperation become essential competencies. Societal needs and demands now require the "globalization of Universities." This means that we must increase international competitiveness, build a foundation for enhanced international relations between countries, and develop human resources to play a leading part globally. To do this, people must enrich their understandings of the various cultures upon which languages, customs, and values are based. As part of the need for such adaptation, we at MDU are actively recruiting international students to prov…
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