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Our institution, Shoken Gakuen, has to motto the four virtues of sober earnestness, piety, sincerity, and kindness, coupled with Confucian Jen or humanity. We aim to develop character education from the Confucian central virtues of humaneness, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faithfulness. With this Jen, we get the total of all virtues as the founding philosophy. From the turn of the century through the Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei era, a significant change has been required of welfare education in line with developments in politics and the economy. The university is positive in offering intellectual and human resources to local communities, and in turn, in engaging with special lecturers and experts in their respective fields to conduct educational exchanges with the community. The university also offers a lifelong education as an open school for learning, free from the formalized sense of values. The university systematizes welfare, education, and health scientifically and theoretically while organizing a welfare and health center for research and counseling for people of all ages to be on visiting terms with the university. The university is also eager to cultivate a sense of international awareness through international exchanges with China and other Asian countries, Europe and America. The university's founding philosophy is based on Jen or humanity, the central basis of Confucian moral philosophy. Our institution aims to cultivate humanity developed from the "five constant virtues" of humaneness, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faithfulness. The university lays stress on its education designed to develop abilities and to strengthen character. The university upholds Oyomei's (Wang Yang-ming's) doctrine of "the unity of knowledge and conduct": knowledge is not complete until it becomes conduct, and conduct is not complete unless it is knowledge itself at work. Therefore, our university aims to instill into the mind of the student the importance of promoting the practical utilization of knowledge and of cultivating rich human nature in the spirit of Confucianism. View full university

Gunma University has continued to respond to the needs that have evolved over the ages of Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei, an institution of higher education, playing a significant role in educational reform. Gunma University continues to function upon a base that has been born from this history and the various traditions that have evolved within, leading us to where we find ourselves today. In March 2011, the Gunma University Hospital became the first institution in Japan to establish and utilize a sober ion therapy facility. Since June of the same year, it has carried out state-of-the-art medical care by initiating full-fledged heavy ion cancer treatments. Through the management and support of this epoch-making therapeutic device, the School of Medicine has been turning out approximately 10% of the nation's radiotherapists. Furthermore, the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation and the Graduate School of Medicine are currently undergoing a cooperative management program with Akita University called the Global COE Program, and the "Signal Transduction in the Regulatory System and Its Disorders" is carrying out advanced research in the field of thyroid disorders among patients with iodine deficiencies. This problem is relatively common in Gunma Prefecture, as a tradition of endocrinological research has begun to flower. Research in the various engineering fields includes themes such as the realization of a low-carbon society, the development of new materials, and disaster prevention research such as minimizing damage from catastrophes. We are also working vigorously on a wide range of other projects dealing with advanced technological developments and social contributions. Our Faculty of Education has a long tradition that includes establishing the Graduate School of Education (Professional Degree Course) in 2008. The goal of establishing this course was to provide a program of educational seminars at a substantially high level to enhance further and support our teacher training activities and elevate our success in the licensing of new teachers. Our Faculty of Social Information and Studies continues to proceed towards an ever-advancing "information society." This faculty strives to encourage students as they confront an increasingly broader perspective on this society by promoting personnel capable of achieving the ability to realize solutions within a broad range of activities. Our Graduate School of Health Science, programs dealing with world-class team medical education and research group programs continue to expand. In the future, we hope to see team medicine develop as a viable form capable of bearing the burden of the development of further advanced human resources. In this manner, as a national university seeking to establish roots within a wide area, and in total accord with the demands of the times, by fostering the sprouts of academic research that will lead to more incredible things throughout Japan and throughout the entire world, Gunma University accepts as its highest mission the education, development, and dispatch of excellent human resources capable of achieving top-level research results. Furthermore, the university continues to strive to become a trustworthy academic institution of the highest standards. Gunma University (GU) is located near the northern boundary of the Kanto Plain, approximately 100 km northwest of Tokyo. The three majestic peaks, Mts, surround GU. Akagi, Haruna, and Myogi, whose shapes are incorporated in the school emblem. Gunma University was founded in 1949 as a member of the new system of national universities on a pristine campus located in a bright and abundant natural environment surrounded by the "Three Mountains of Jomo" (Akagi, Haruna, and Myogi). Since that time, through its efforts to foster useful human resources, search for truth and peace, and investigate a wide range of profound scientific principles and their practical applications through research, the university has strived to fulfill its social mandate as a representative university of the Northern Kanto region in order to contribute to world prosperity and human welfare. The latter half of the 20th century was an era that has come to be symbolized by the rapid progress of scientific technology and economic prosperity. At the same time, it had also become an age forced to deal with the actualization on a global scale of several complicated issues deeply concerned with humanity's very existence and the core elements of prosperity. Herein, the university has continued to respond sincerely to educational and research activities in the individual academic disciplines of education, medicine, engineering, and social information studies. As a result, from a multifaceted and comprehensive perspective, and as a leader in the new era of education and research in the 21st century, Gunma University at this moment declares the following as the fundamental principles of its mission in order to respond to a diversified range of needs on a global scale. View full university

Gunma Prefectural Women's University was founded to provide students with a broad cultural background and specialized knowledge to enable them to make an active contribution at every level of society at every level both here in Japan and throughout the world. Gunma Prefectural Women's University is one of only four public women's universities in Japan and is the only one located in eastern Japan. Since its foundation, its mission has been to make full use of its unique status as a women's University to develop women who can be leaders in their communities and internationally in a new era of internationalization. At its foundation in 1980, the University consisted of one department with three faculties: Japanese literature, English literature (now English language, British and American Cultures), and Aesthetics and Art History. In 2005 the faculty of International Communication was created to develop women who would flourish in the international world. In 2009 the faculty of Liberal Arts was established to produce women with a broad vision and culture. The University now has two departments and four faculties. In 1994 a graduate course in the Humanities was added, followed in 2009 by a graduate course in International Communication. These graduate courses show our University's strong commitment to developing students who possess high research skills and specialist knowledge. As part of its remit to make a substantial contribution to the whole of society, the Foreign Language Research Institute was created in 2001 to act as a catalyst to improve English education in Gunma prefecture. In 2004 a series of symposia under the title of 'Gunma Studies' was created to foster a more comprehensive and diverse understanding of Gunma. In April 2009, the Center for Gunma Studies was set up. In 2012 the Center for Japanese Language Education was created to help foreign residents gain the Japanese skills to play a full role in the community. Our University has shown itself firmly committed to meeting the challenges presented by our changing society and has continued to make an essential contribution to society both in humanities and social studies. Beginning in April 2018, the University will become a public corporation. It will continue to raise the next generation of female leaders and to be a resource to help Gunma develop and cope with the rapidly changing world. We will strive to ensure that the knowledge and experiences that students gain here will help them make a smooth transition into society and constitute a rich resource for their whole lives. The University is currently host to international exchange students from universities (including Huron University and Soochow University), which have student exchange agreements with GPWU. These students play a full and active role in the academic and social life of the University. Each exchange student is assigned two home students ('tutors') to help them with their Japanese and any problems that may arise in their daily lives. In 2007, a new Japanese language course for exchange students was established. View full university

Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences opened in April 2005 through a reorganization of the Gunma Prefectural Medical Junior College with high hopes that it would “achieve the dream of a healthy lifestyle” for the residents of Gunma Prefecture. The school aims to foster nurses, public health nurses, and radiology technicians who will serve as health and medical care professionals capable of maintaining and improving the residents of Gunma Prefecture and the people who live in different regions throughout their lives. As such, it established graduate school master’s courses in April 2009. The College of Health Sciences cultivates health and medical care professionals furnished with well-rounded characters and advanced knowledge and skills who respect human dignity, consider health and medical care from various aspects, and make decisions and act independently. Also, it contributes to further improving the health, medical care, and welfare environments for prefectural residents by having the research results contribute to the local community. Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences fosters nursing personnel and radiology technicians as health and medical care professionals who strive to provide medical practices that are grounded in scientific evidence-based on advanced, systematized, and specialized knowledge and techniques while preserving the human dignity of the patients, as well as work always to achieve optimal health conditions. It also produces research results that can be used in the future within Gunma Prefecture and internationally. What is more, the college takes part in the creation, development, and dissemination of evidence-based practice (EBP) of the highest caliber within Japan. It lays a foundation of human resources that can contribute to technological innovations in health, medical care, and welfare settings. The educational objectives of Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences are to have its students learn how to contribute to maintaining and raising the level of health of the various people who live in different regions throughout their lifetimes through the lifestyles and cultures of the residents of Gunma Prefecture, where the college is located. Through this process, it cultivates in them a well-rounded character. It has them undertake their roles within a changing society and deepen their understanding of and interest in the people who live their own lives while coexisting with nature and fostering a distinctive culture, It also instills in them specialized knowledge and skills that are backed by scientific evidence and excellent faculties for logical judgment. Our teaching faculty possess both an abundance of practical experience and strong research capabilities. In line with our “next generation-oriented curriculum,” which aims to educate every one of our students so that they are capable of adapting to changes in society, our teaching faculty provide instruction that consolidates a scientific basis for nursing and radiological technology studies to support the systematic study of specialized knowledge and skills. What is more, the school offers specialized foundational courses that underpin scholarship in these fields and standard courses that cultivate the ability to work together as a team, which is indispensable for the health and medical services that contribute to society. Thus the school provides an education that is consistent with the real world in which there is no divergence between theory and practice. Moreover, regarding liberal arts education, the school offers academic foundational education courses with unique individual character. It prepares every one of our students to set up plans for taking courses following their intellectual pursuits or academic interests as independent scholars. One goal that we aim for about our college students is that you all can think and make decisions with a sense of autonomy. Until yesterday, you were taught the basic knowledge for getting by in life, whereas now in college, you have become students who will learn independently. You are students who learn by thinking on your own. My heartfelt desire to see you refine your sensibilities and craft a productive student life here with us in Gunma, which is filled with ponds and greenery that are suffused with scenic beauty. View full university