Nagasaki International University

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Respect for humanity is the founding principle of Nagasaki International University, from which we strive for better human relations and hospitality. We wish to contribute to a society that values health and culture through our educational and research endeavors.
Under the basic philosophy of "respect for human beings", NIU was founded in 2000 through a "public-private partnership" among our parent organization, an educational foundation Kyushu Bunka Gakuen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Sasebo City, and the local business community.
Since its foundation, NIU established the Faculty of Health Management in 2002, the Graduate School of Human and Social Studies in 2004, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Graduate School of Health Management in 2006 and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2014 and has grown into a comprehensive university with four departments in three faculties and five courses (master or doctoral) in three graduate schools.
In such professional education curriculums related to "life, health, and livelihood," we support students in acquiring the various specialized knowledge and skills to obtain national qualifications and licenses and provide various career support so that students can play an active role as key personnel in the local community after graduation based on the consistent policy from enrollment to graduation. In recent years, we promote cooperation with the local municipalities and industries and other domestic universities to become a regional intellectual base in an effort toward regional revitalization. Therefore students can access many opportunities to learn from social engagement.
Moreover, just like our university name, which includes the term "international," we promote human resources with a global perspective. We actively conduct study abroad programs to study at sister universities in Asia, Europe, and the United States. We also actively accept international students, mainly from Asia, to create an environment to learn about multicultural coexistence.
Furthermore, one of the characteristics of the university is the practice of cultural education. We adopt the "culture of tea ceremony" to embody our "founding principles" of hospitality. It is also the basis of the human education our parent organization, Kyushu Bunka Gakuen, has developed for 60 years since its foundation. The term "tea ceremony" means more than just an art form. It is a philosophy. It is also the history of ideas as well as culture. It is because tea (ceremony) is closely tied to Zen (Buddhism).
The tea ceremony is based on the idea of the "seat." The person who serves the tea and drinks it both sit and share the same space. In the context of a university, it encompasses the concepts of teacher and student and junior and senior, both standing on the same footing and supporting each other with mutual respect. One could say that the graceful carriages, dignity, and "hospitality" acquired from it are the spirit of NIU. We believe that students can use the spirit in the future no matter which departments they are in or what field they are going into.
In addition to acquiring specialized knowledge and skills, the cultivation of lasting personality is one of the significant implications of what we learn at university in our social and occupational life and our long life.
Many universities are founded based on the principles of Christianity or Buddhism. One could say that the equivalent of such religion or religious principles that support universities' philosophies is the "culture of the tea ceremony" at NIU. We intend to cultivate cultured human resources with a rich sense of humanity through the tea ceremony's culture as comprehensive art.
At Nagasaki International University, our founding principle is respect for humanity. We hope to realize a more compassionate society through an understanding of human nature. For that reason, the concept of hospitality is at the heart of our efforts to train specialists capable of significant advances in their respective fields.

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