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A university has several vital missions. One of them is to conduct research and apply the results for the benefit of society. Another is to help people grow by educating them. Yet another is to serve as a cornerstone for building peace in the surrounding community and the world as a whole. The founding ideal of all of J. F. Oberlin University is to foster global citizens based on Christian values. This educational ideal aims not merely to impart book knowledge to students while they are in school but at helping them acquire a broad liberal arts education and the ability to make their own decisions. We seek to nurture individuals who will understand others and deal wi…
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Iwate University is located in Morioka City, the capital of Iwate Prefecture. It is one of the principal cities in the Tohoku region. The population of Morioka is approximately 300,000. Three rivers, the Kitakami River, the Nakatsu River, and the Shizukuishi River, merge in the city center. Morioka is a city surrounded by historical sights and unspoiled nature. Established in 1949 as a national university, Iwate University was inaugurated into a national university corporation and 86 other national universities in 2005. The university is composed of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Science and Engineering, and Agriculture. There are currently …
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Iwate Prefectural University is located on magnificent land with a view of Mt. Iwate and Mt. Himekami as well as Kitakami River flows alongside. In hopes of creating a new era of harmony among men, nature, and science, we provide an education that fosters independence, knowledge, and highly specialized skills which contribute to the enrichment of humanity and society. It was established in 1998 with "In the hope of creating a new era of harmony among nature, science, and mankind, we provide an education that fosters independence, sound knowledge, rich sensibility, and highly specialized skills which contribute to the enrichment of humanity and society." as its foundin…
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For 114 years, Iwate Medical University has progressed with the local community and fulfilled its responsibility as the hub of community medicine. Today, a large-scale relocation project is in the works: the faculties, the Interdepartmental Equipment Center, laboratories, and the University Hospital will be relocated to a large new campus, Uchimaru of central Morioka, where the current campus is located, a Medical Center will be established. The University's mission is to nurture real and good human beings through medical, dental, and pharmacological sciences. Students will deepen their understanding of the humanities, gain sufficient knowledge and skills, pursue specia…
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Iwaki Meisei University (IMU) has been aiming to engage in education and research as an academic institution that contributes to local communities, based on the school motto of its founder, the school corporation Meisei Gakuen: "Healthiness, Sincerity, and Devotedness," since it is the foundation in 1987 in response to an invitation by Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. The university is currently offering a multifaceted and thorough education to develop human resources beneficial to local communities through the best use of the diversity of its teaching staff and their research fields, including the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and engineering, life sc…
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Ishikawa Prefectural University is still a relatively young university nine years since its establishment. Nevertheless, it has already been making considerable achievements on both the educational and research fronts. This is also evident in the university website, which has become even further improved this academic year following its redesign in November last year. It contains information on the teaching staff, including lists of accomplishments reflecting their research activities. Ishikawa Prefectural University consists of a single faculty known as the Faculty of Bioresources and Environmental Sciences. We are conducting education and research to develop applied t…
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International University of Japan (IUJ) was founded in 1982, with the extensive support of Japan's industrial, educational and local communities, to train professionals who can actively contribute to the international society with a high interdisciplinary and specialized knowledge level. As the nature of IUJ is very different from other Japanese graduate schools that mainly nurture scholars for academia, before stipulating its founding principles, IUJ was extensively discussed at the IUJ Advisory Committee, comprising eminent persons from industry and educational society, and at the Drafting Committee. The following are the Founding Principles of IUJ that have been m…
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Since its establishment in 2000, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University (IPNU) has enjoyed an increasing reputation for excellence in education and research activities. It is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and is also one of the top national recipients of research funding from the Ministry. In concert with our recent foundation of the Graduate School of Nursing and our long-lasting and unique contributions to the community through various educational programs, we are becoming an outstanding center for the advancement of nursing science. Our University is located near Kanazawa, a historical old city full of tradi…
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The International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW) was founded in 1995 as the first comprehensive university of health and welfare in Japan, to develop health and welfare specialists and raise their status. We foster professionals who can become leaders in their respective specialties and adapt to the advancement and specialization of the medical, health care, and welfare fields. We are now a university with around 8,300 students in 10 schools and 24 departments, as well as a graduate school, across six campuses, located in Ohtawara City in Tochigi Prefecture, Narita City in Chiba Prefecture, Minato City in Tokyo, Odawara City in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Fukuoka Ci…
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The International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies was founded in 1996 by Professor Akira Hirakawa as an institution dedicated to furthering research into Buddhism and educating new Buddhist scholars. Currently, the college has two affiliated institutes, i.e., the International Institute for Buddhist Studies and the Research Institute for Old Japanese Manuscripts of Buddhist Scriptures. A library whose collection amounts to more than 140,000 volumes of Buddhist studies and related areas. These facilities make possible fulfilling our duty of conducting Buddhist research and educating capable specialists in the field. It is well known that Buddhism was born 2,500…
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International Christian University holds as its mission the establishment of an academic tradition of freedom and reverence based on Christian ideals and the cultivation of internationally-minded citizens who perform service to God and humankind and contribute to lasting peace. ICU was founded with a mission to pursue truth, defend academic freedom, and enrich inner freedom. To attain the best results in the pursuit and conveyance of truth, it is essential to maintain the highest academic standards and the highest levels of academic freedom. We have the responsibility to defend our academic community from external constraints and coercion so that we can reach our lofty …
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IBU is a single-department college of physical education. Universities of physical education used to be places of higher education for selected students with excellent athletic talents and academic abilities. Today, they have become places where students with various intentions get together. The mission of IBU is to foster socially significant human resources. To achieve this mission, we have changed the curriculum drastically along with the faculties and departments in the school's 30th anniversary. In short, this new curriculum has been established with a strong sense of cooperation with society. We aim to nurture human resources who can respond flexibly to various circ…
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The prosperity of our country depends on industrial development based on Monotsukuri--Production. To realize this goal, it is essential to nurture and expand educational environments where next-generation aspirants can dedicate their creative passion and ideals to creating products. With the support of the central government, local governments, and industrial circles, "Institute of technologists" was founded in April 2001 to realize the ideal of nurturing aspiring creators with "skills," "wisdom," and "spirit" for technologists and developing the industry. Basic Ideas: Practical education that directly helps industry and craftsmanship. Education and res…
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We develop human resources to be able to create a future of trusted information security. We live in the age of information. As various forms of information are spreading across the world, many diverse forms of businesses and activities are springing up to use them. We have encountered different types of information security problems in recent years, including targeted attacks against specific corporate organizations, phishing, information leakage, and cyberattacks against interested nations. It is challenging to see IT progress without solutions to these problems. To cope with this situation, we need various specialized human resources such as engineers, practitioners,…
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The Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences is often referred to by its abbreviation "IAMAS." A graduate-level educational institution founded to explore the fusion of technological innovation and artistic creation, IAMAS strives to transmit new forms of culture and to serve as a hub for the cultivation of new creators for our information society. Since its establishment, many talented people have honed their skills at IAMAS and gone on to work in a wide array of fields related to media culture and industry, garnering high esteem both in Japan and abroad. IAMAS's diverse programs have evolved with the changing times: with interactive design and media projects that…
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Hoshi University's drug research and development prowess are preeminent among the pharmaceutical universities in Japan. Hoshi University has its origin in the staff education division of Hoshi Pharmaceutical Company and is a "university specializing in research and education" supported by over 100 years of tradition. The university consists of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and 1,800 students are currently enrolled. It is an educational institute for developing highly skilled pharmacists and drug discovery researchers and a research institute for developing advanced pharmaceutics. We are striving to s…
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Ibaraki University has a 65-year history dating back to May 1949, when it started as a national university under Japan's new educational system. It was formed by integrating the former educational system's Mito High School, Ibaraki Normal School, Ibaraki National School for Youth, and Taga Technical College. Today, the university has developed into a mid-size national university with five undergraduate and four graduate schools. Approximately 8,400 students are studying at the university. In addition to cultivating human beings who are generous, highly ethical, and sociable and seek after truth, Ibaraki University strives to achieve the creation, accumulation, systemati…
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Modern-day medical settings witness a wide variety of health professionals working together as teams. These situations are often described using terms such as inter-professional collaboration, inter-professional cooperation, and team-based medicine. But a common requirement of all professionals in such settings is advanced skills, and such skills and professional knowledge are learned by students in the Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Radiological Science departments of our School of Health Sciences. A thorough grounding in science is also a prerequisite to building this professionalism, combined with understanding and communicating with professionals…
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Ibaraki Christian Education Community, based on Christian principles, was established in 1947. The following year Ibaraki Christian Junior College was formed. With the same spirit of Christian liberal arts education, Ibaraki Christian College of Literature was established in 1967. In 2000 the College of Life Science was added, then in 2004, the College of Nursing, and in 2011 the College of Business Administration was added. Since that time, we have made every effort to strengthen our overall university programs. Graduate schools were also established. In 1995 the College of Literature set up two graduate programs, then in 2011, the College of Life Sciences and the Nursin…
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The Hyogo University of Teacher Education is a front-runner in both practice of and research into teacher education in Japan. As a university specializing in this area, we have an excellent faculty of teacher education, as well as one of Japan's largest Master's and professional degree programs and Ph.D. programs. The intention was to promote comprehensive research into the theory and application of a wide range of scientific matters related to school education and future foster teachers, with creativity, intelligence, and humanity, who can play an essential role in culture and society. Many in-service teachers are enrolled as graduate students in the Master's a…
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In 2007 at Port Island in Kobe, Hyogo University of Health Sciences (HUHS) has started its activity with three faculties simultaneously, School of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, and School of Rehabilitation as a member of Hyogo College of Medicine Group, which has over 40 years of history as medical college and teaching hospitals at Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. Our mission is to bring up health-care professionals who can serve the patients and society with reliable and warmhearted medical and related care and contribute to the interdisciplinary medical care supported by a high level of knowledge and skills. Under the borderless and collaborative educational circ…
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Hyogo University was founded in 1995. It is located in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, and is a public university with four faculties and six departments. The campus is spacious and lushly green and shared with the Hyogo University Junior College (established in 1955). Here we provide attentive education in small classes and develop human service professionals in nursing, childhood education, economics, and many other fields. The parent body of Hyogo University, the Mutsumi School Foundation, was founded in 1921 to guide children through the spirit of harmony. It currently has three campuses in Hyogo Prefecture. The Kakogawa campus is home to Hyogo University (the Graduate …
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Along the Mukogawa River in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo College of Medicine was founded by Dr. Shigeki Morimura in 1972. With Dr. Morimura's three founding principles of our school "Service for the Welfare of Society," "Deep Love toward Humankind," and "Profound Scientific Understanding of Human Beings," we have trained and produced 3978 finest clinicians, medical researchers, and medical policy experts. They are currently active as professional medical staff in core positions in community health care and contribute significantly to improving health, medical services, and welfare in the surrounding areas—Kobe, Nishinomiya, and Osaka. Also, 1111 Doctors of Medicine have gradua…
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A group of ambitious young men founded Hosni University at the beginning of the modern era in Japan for ordinary citizens who had become aware of human rights and sought law knowledge. Hosei University has embraced the spirit of freedom and Progress throughout its long history. However, the times may change; this spirit never diminishes in value. In any era, individuals and organizations must preserve their freedom and independence from the powers that they may continually question the status quo and work toward creating a new society, undeterred by the difficult challenges and constraints of their time. The builders of a new era are those with the ability to forge ne…
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In 2012, Hokusei Gakuen University celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding. It was founded in April 1962 as a small institution with only a School of Humanities, which consisted of a Department of English and a Department of Social Welfare, each with an enrollment capacity of 50 students. Despite its initial small scale, over the past 50 years, Hokusei has developed into a large university with a student body of more than 4,000. We believe the driving force behind this development has been the expectations and trust invested in the university's education by countless students. The substantial achievements resulting from the students' expectations and trust also he…
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