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As the only national University located in Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima University, for over 50 years, has centered its curriculum on issues faced by virtual communities in the prefecture. Unlike the sample problems you might find in a high school textbook, real-life issues are seldom straightforward or confined within the ambit of a single discipline. For this reason, Fukushima University utilizes its small class sizes and high teacher-to-student ratios to enable its programs to incorporate a variety of fieldwork and internship opportunities. Some examples of past projects include establishing student-led corporations in the community, implementing local-production for local-consumption business models, and selling local produce with farmers while dispelling negative impressions of radioactive contamination. These projects build bridges between our university resources and the community and provide excellent opportunities for our students to engage in mutually helpful ways with real people in difficult circumstances. Fukushima University believes the local community is an excellent learning resource. Join us, and witness for yourself the immediate impact of your studies on the lives of others and their lives on you. We believe a crucial difference between study at high school and study at University is that at University, your studies have a far more profound connection to the local community. This spring, many of the students who sat the Fukushima University entrance examinations did so because they wished to do voluntary work in the region. What prompted them to come here was that voluntary activities could form the practical component of their studies. Since immediately after the earthquake, students have participated in a wide range of volunteer activities, including helping at evacuation centers, removing debris and mud, cleaning up disaster-affected homes, and collecting donations. In recognition of their efforts, the University decided to offer academic credit for volunteer activities under the Self-Study Program, an existing subject offering one credit for 45 hours and two credits for 90 hours spent in volunteer activities during the academic year. The University believes that encouraging students to participate in volunteer activities will lead to their much-needed support for disaster-affected areas and the cultivation of greater student autonomy, initiative, and social awareness - the original objectives of the Self-Study Program. Fukushima University wants its students to be able to use their imagination under challenging circumstances. Do not hold back just because you are a student. You will be pleasantly surprised at how the outcomes you have thought about and announced impact the world. In the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima University took full advantage of its human and intellectual networks to create an academic model of post-disaster reconstruction, unlike any other university in the world. As the only national University in the prefecture, Fukushima University was quick to cooperate with the prefectural government and various localities, organizations, and NPOs to offer a variety of supports such as volunteer work for evacuees and victims, radiation measurements in areas polluted by radioactive substances, and conducting in-depth surveys on actual damage to farm and fishery production. In order to effectively run long-term support and collaborative activities, the University created the Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization (FURE) in April 2011 to support communities via research projects aimed at recovery and revitalization efforts in the prefecture. View full university

Fukushima Medical University was founded to nurture medical professionals who will contribute to the promotion of health, medical care, and welfare of the citizens of Fukushima Prefecture. It is also a research institute to contribute to the community and humanity's welfare through advances made in medicine, nursing, and related areas. Medical care is the collaboration of medicine, nursing, and allied health professionals. Fukushima Medical University promotes education, research, and medicine based on the following principles: We respect human life and nurture medical professionals with high ethical standards. We pursue advanced medicine and nursing. We provide holistically and integrated medical care as the core medical institution in the prefecture. More than three years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Nuclear Power Plant accident. With the start of full-scale revitalization, we pledge never to forget, never to allow the memories to fade, and to explore a future full of hope with the people of Fukushima. Fukushima Medical University has always seen its mission as lying in the education of first-rate medical professionals, in the furtherance of medical and nursing research, and providing high quality and advanced medical care. It is now time for us to take a fresh look at this original mission to ensure that we are indeed fulfilling it while also being alive to the significance of the historical mission that destiny has given us in the form of the unprecedented disaster. This new mission calls on us to become the powerhouse in achieving a revitalized Fukushima while overseeing and protecting the people of Fukushima's physical and mental well-being. To this end, we present our new vision as the expression of our University's determination. We are committed to making the "Fukushima Global Medical Science Center" the hub of concerted efforts to achieve a revitalized Fukushima underpinned by a reliable and safe infrastructure to support our citizens' daily lives. Initiatives to this end will include long-term provisions for promoting every one of our citizens' physical and mental well-being, the creation of new healthcare-related industries, and support for community-based healthcare. No matter how long it takes, we swear to provide ongoing support to Fukushima residents until every one of them feels that revitalization has been achieved. Returning to the principles that inspired our foundation, we are determined to continue our efforts to educate and foster medical professionals equipped with the advanced knowledge and skills, coupled with high ethical principles, that will enable them to assume a vital role in the revitalization of Fukushima. We are committed to the continual enrichment of our educational capacity and curricula of our School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Graduate School of Medicine in order to send out into the world medical professionals with proven competence in terms of knowledge, skills, and professional bearing. At Fukushima University Hospital and Aizu Medical Center, we bring to bear the on-site provision of reasonable medical care in enhancing our capacities as a provider of education and healthcare. We provide attractive training programs and perform career-long education to nurture medical professionals with the right balance of specialist and general skills. Besides, as a mark of our appreciation to those who sent warm messages, offered assistance, and helping hands. With all the humanitarian responses from all over the world after the disaster, we are actively engaged in developing medical professionals prepared for a possible future complex disaster: well-versed in disaster medicine and radiation medicine and equipped with the necessary social communication skills. View full university