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Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, an institution surrounded by the rich natural scenery of the Katsuragi mountain range and Kansai International Airport, provides a convenient connection point to the international community. With an admission policy of "cultivating mind, virtue, and body through ceaseless effort in order to serve society" and a goal of cultivating human resources with expertise and knowledge in the fields of physical and general education, sport, health, and welfare, our university was established as the first institution of higher learning of physical education in the Kansai region in the year following the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. This year w…
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Founded in 1971 by Dr. Naoyoshi Kanazawa, Osaka University of Economics and Law (OUEL) is nestled against the mountains in Yao, Osaka. OUEL is a social science university consisting of the Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Law. In 2012, `The Oval', OUEL's new campus completed. The Oval is located at the center of Yao city, a five-minute walk from Kintetsu Yao station. The founder foresaw a universal stage for Japanese higher education in the future, and he also wished to eliminate elitism. Dr. Kanazawa also believed that economics and law were the twin pillars of society and believed that a student could build a praiseworthy character by mastering economics and law. T…
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Osaka University of Commerce aims to offer comprehensive education towards our primary objective of "Nurturing Individuals Whom Will Benefit the World", and "Fostering a Spirit of Venture". After WWII, many new businesses sprang up in the Osaka area, and the most developed city amongst them was Higashi-Osaka. Established at its center, Osaka University of Commerce began from the desire to nurture talented individuals who will take up new challenges and benefit the world. OUC is based on the following four pillars: "Kindness and courtesy", "Fundamental practical learning", "Flexible thinking", and "Enjoyment of life". Among these, it is the last one, "Enjoyment of life…
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Osaka University was founded in 1931 as the sixth imperial university of Japan through strong demand from the business and government sectors of Osaka and the people of Osaka City and Prefecture. The roots of Osaka University can be found in Kaitokudo and Tekijuku of the Edo period. The academic culture and spirit of these two places of scholarship are inherited even today. The spirit of innovation and a restless spirit of challenge serve as the cornerstone for our education and research endeavors. And after a considerable undertaking merging Osaka University with Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 2007, the university has shown that it will continue to develop as one…
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Our university has a starting base on the training school for veterinary sciences founded in 1883. Since then, the number of students had increased and increased. Integrating three public universities in Osaka (old Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka Women's University, and Osaka Prefectural College of Nursing), we initiated a new OPU as a public university corporation in 2005. We have three campuses (Nakamozu campus, Habikino campus, and Rinku campus) and one downtown satellite office (I-site Namba). Nakamoto campus is the main campus which is located in Sakai-city. It takes one hour from Kansai International Airport. We have four colleges with thirteen schools for un…
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Osaka Ohtani University welcomed its 50th year of the inauguration in 2016. In its fifty-year history, the university has emphasized education based on the founding principle of "repaying gratitude." As a university that places importance on "people" and the "heart," it has continued to raise people to approach others with a sense of mutual respect and a feeling of gratitude. From this tradition, feeling a sense of closeness between student and teacher or between students themselves is a unique feature of this university. The university also provides an education that responds to present-day needs. When the university was for women only, the university offered broad oppor…
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Osaka Medical College was founded in 1927 as a five-year higher school of medicine. Our College is the oldest of all medical schools among the private colleges and universities of western Japan. When our College was founded, Japan was in the midst of the Showa Great Depression, and large numbers of Japanese citizens immigrated to foreign countries, including China and Brazil. In response to this trend, Mr. Wataru Yoshizu, a member of the House of Representatives, founded our College to send groups of physicians to those countries as immigrants. This is why our college song contains lyrics about the Gobi Desert and flowers in the Amazon. This spirit was passed on to succee…
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Osaka Kyoiku University (OKU) was founded in 1949 by consolidating three traditional schools in the area, which date to the 1870s. Today, OKU has two major campuses, one in Kashiwara City (670,000 square meters) and the other in mid-town Osaka City (50,000 square meters). OKU provides twenty-two day-time programs and one night-time program in Teacher Training, and fifteen day-time programs in the Department of Arts and Sciences at the undergraduate level. The OKU graduate school offers eighteen programs for a Master's degree in Education, Arts and Sciences, and Art. The primary mission of OKU is to foster qualified professionals in the field of school education and to d…
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Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) was founded in 1922 to develop specialists with science-based practical skills that play an essential role in the world, the people, and the community. OIT has three faculties Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, and Faculty of Intellectual Property, the last of which is the only one of its discipline in Japan. OIT also has its graduate schools, which include doctoral courses. As of May 2016, OIT has 6,745 undergraduate students, 354 graduate students, 287 faculty staff, 149 full-time administrative staff, and more than 100,000 alumni. OIT has three campuses: Omiya Campus, Umeda Campus, and Hirakata C…
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Founder Taneo Shirai stated that Osaka Gakuin University should, through education and research, seek to develop individuals of both practical ability and broad vision, who can serve society at large and contribute to the peace and welfare of humankind, Osaka Gakuin University's history began in 1940 with the establishment of Kansai Accounting Institute, the forerunner of Kansai College of Accounting, now the oldest professional accounting school in Osaka. This institution has since developed into a full-scale general educational foundation comprising Osaka Gakuin University Graduate School, covering six disciplines (Graduate Schools of Commerce, Economics, Internationa…
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The origin of Osaka Electro-Communication University (O.E.C.U.) was the East Asian Telecommunications Engineering School, which was established in 1941. As a university, it is directly descended from Osaka Electro-Communication University Junior College, which was established in 1958. Osaka Electro-Communication University Junior College's Electronic Engineering Department was created simultaneously as the Electronic Engineering Departments at the University of Tokyo and Osaka University, making it the first such department private school in Japan. At the time, it was understood that manufacturing, based on electronic engineering, would help build the nation. The industri…
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Established in 1911, Osaka Dental University has a long history of education in the field of dentistry. The year 2011 will mark the 100th anniversary of our institution. In response to new trends in dental education, Osaka Dental University will change. More opportunities will be provided to potential students. Further improvements will be made in student education and faculty development. Greater emphasis will be placed on nurturing a rich sense of humanity, so crucial for medical practitioners. With these changes, we will continue our endeavors in providing oral health care specialists to the community. By the time of graduation, students are expected to have acqui…
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Osaka City University celebrated its 135th anniversary in 2015. It is now the largest public university in Japan, with eight faculties and ten graduate schools, offering bachelor, master, and doctoral courses in a wide variety of disciplines. At the time of its establishment, the mayor of Osaka, Hajime Seki, gave us a special mission: "The new university should not be an imitation of the national universities it should serve the needs of the citizens conduct original research on the culture, economy, and society of the city of Osaka and communicate the results to the people of the city." His vision is still kept in honor by us to this very day. The problems facing Osaka…
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Onomichi city has been a center of economic and cultural development in the Seto Inland Sea area since ancient times. Onomichi City University shows the originality of its academic design and improved academic and cultural perspectives in it is of “Wisdom and Beauty.” Onomichi City University has three departments in two faculties: Economics, Management, and Information Science, Japanese Literature, and Arts and Design. Japanese Literature and Art are two icons to express that Onomichi city aims to be the ideal artistic and cultural city filled with vitality and sensitivity. Onomichi City University is relatively small in scale, with about three hundred students in on…
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Our university was founded on the principle of the relentless pursuit of beauty： both the distinctive beauty created by Okinawan culture and humankind's universal beauty. By that principle, we are a comprehensive arts school consisting of a Faculty of Arts and Crafts, a Faculty of Music, graduate schools, a Research Institute, and a University Library and Arts Museum. The year 2016 marked our 30th anniversary. Thus far, approximately 3,400 graduates have completed their studies and flown the nest. They are now actively engaged in creative endeavors, some working as musicians and performers, artists, and much more. The elemental spirit underlying the Prefectural Universi…
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Students, graduates, and faculty are susceptible to local health needs and community expectations. They participate actively in redefining governmental and community health services. OPCN graduate students redefine communication with governments for localities, which results in highly responsive, well-coordinated health services the populations served. Faculty are building an excellent record of obtaining competitive funding from national sources for research and student support. Contributing to local, national, and international society is uppermost, as is interdisciplinary cooperation. International inquiry with the United States, Australia, New Zealand, China…
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Okinawa University and International University, private universities located in Okinawa, have decided to merge and establish a new university, based on an agreement between them. As private universities, both naturally possess unique philosophies of establishment following their founders. They also have concepts for executing those philosophies and their irreplaceable histories and traditions of value. However, while the unique rationales of both Okinawa University and International University to exist as private universities and their traditions will be respected, from today, the decision has been made to reexamine the issue of being "a private university in Okinawa" fr…
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OIST is one of the most exciting initiatives in world scientific research and education. It has very high ambitions to become established as one of the great research universities. The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary graduate school offering a 5-year Ph.D. program in Science. Over half of the faculty and students are recruited from outside Japan, and all education and research are conducted entirely in English. We must hire the best people in the world. Ultimately, a university's reputation is created by the excellence of its faculty, its students, its staff, and management. These professors must form research units that are r…
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Through God's extraordinary providence, Okinawa, once an orphan in the Pacific ocean, is being transformed today into an international island in terms of politics, economy, culture, and in many other ways. But ours is a complex society full of strife. We believe that history taught us this truthful lesson that Christian culture will have to provide a social foundation if Okinawa is to become a peaceful island open to the world. This institute was founded on the firm conviction that it is vital to develop human resources endowed with Christian spirits to build a new Okinawa. Following Japan's Fundamental Law of Education and the School Education Law, Okinawa Christian…
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Okayama University of Science (OUS) has 6 Faculties as Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Management and 4 Graduate Programs as Graduate Program of Sciences, Graduate Program of Engineering, Graduate Program of Informatics and Graduate Program of Biosphere-Geosphere Science. And the university has about 6,000 students. Our necessary scholastic policies are “a unique and compelling research” and “an uplifting, stimulating educational experience.” State-of-the-art research is conducted daily in all fields at our research facilities, laboratories, and off-campus sit…
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Sixty-eight years ago, Okayama University was founded as a comprehensive university by a group of higher education institutions that have played historical roles, including the Okayama-Han(domain) Medical Training School dating from the days of the Tokugawa shogunate. In 2020, our university's Medical School will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. During its long history, Okayama University has developed on a grand scale, with 11 Faculties, 7 Graduate schools, 3 Authorized Research Institutes, a University Hospital, and Attached Schools. Our university has a broad, richly verdant campus in the heart of Okayama City, which has such a mild climate called "Th…
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Okayama Prefectural University is located in Okayama Prefecture, founded in 1993. Okayama Prefecture boasts several nationally renowned tourism assets against a backdrop of its temperate climate, nature, and history. Countless tourists visit the many sites within the prefecture utilizing its extensive public transportation network. Furthermore, thanks to its temperate climate, Okayama is known as a fruit kingdom, with many fruit varieties known nationwide harvested within the prefecture. Okayama Prefectural University develops and supports the career formulation of professionals engaged in society and possesses deep educational cultivation, high specialization, and a…
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Oita was once the center of Japan's inter-cultural exchange. We hope to continue and build on this tradition of the initiative. Oita University will foster people rich in creativity, social abilities, and humanity through education and research in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students are drawn from a variety of academic backgrounds. Therefore, it is essential to establish a system for their education that will effectively answer individual needs. It will help students to develop their moral sense, their creativity, and their practical abilities. At the same time, the university must encourage advanced research in many fields. Our pr…
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In our increasingly aging society, the role of nursing colleges and universities in health and welfare has become a matter of increasing importance. Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences was established as one of these institutions in 1998 by the government of Oita Prefecture. Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences's mission is to assume a central role in the advancement of excellence in education, research, and community service in the field of nursing. The university is dedicated to assisting its students in becoming compassionate health care providers capable of understanding the thoughts, feelings, and desires of those under their care who are suffe…
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Ochanomizu University was founded on November 29, 1875, as Tokyo Women's Normal School, Japan's first higher education institution. In the over 141 years since the university has forged a new path in education for women. Even when it was difficult for women to play a significant role in the workforce, many graduates pursued careers. They became strong performers in various fields, including academic research, education, industry, government, and the media. They continue to earn the deep respect of their peers and have opened up doors to new opportunities for the women who follow. We continue to foster women who embrace the future by adopting a broad perspective and stro…
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