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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 one year, 1,300 students. We have around sixty teaching staff, which is roughly one teacher to six students. Onomichi City University is a university where you feel at home, characterized by the intimacy between students and between students and teaching staff. You can quickly establish new relationships, which will surely increase your study motivation. We must mention the origin of our university. It was the sincere endeavors of volunteers in Onomichi to set up an advanced women’s school in 1946, in a state of chaos just after the war. They considered that the next leaders of the new Japan should be prominent and well-educated women. Their passionate spirits moved the city and the government. These forward-looking and unselfish contributions have supported Onomichi and Onomichi City University. One of the characteristics of our university is off-campus study. Students majoring in Japanese Literature collaborate closely with Arts students to produce Books Onomichi. Students majoring in Design work with businesses in town and contribute to making company logos and promotional videos. This year we have opened a new satellite studio in town, hoping they will stimulate students’ activities. Onomichi City University is full of freedom and creativity. Why don’t you come and join us with our pleasant and creative university life? Onomichi City University provides precise knowledge, specialized ability, enriched education, and broad intellectual horizons. It also fosters people who can contribute to local society as well as lead on a global scale. We maximize the advantage of the small-sized class structure, which is one of our unique characteristics. Furthermore, both students and faculty members learn together through sincere communications under the spirit of “Half of teaching is learning.” Onomichi City University firmly educates to cultivate curiosity, the spirit of the quest for “Wisdom and Beauty” solid foundation of academic work, excellent specialized knowledge, and enriched humanity. Onomichi City University provides unique studies to broaden the new horizon of “Wisdom and Beauty” based on the policy that enriched education needs continuous endeavor and academic foundation to produce the enlightened result. To do so, all of the university staff members cooperate and collaborate with different fields and outer organizations in a positive attitude and practice further academic studies for the creation of genuine “Wisdom and Beauty.” Onomichi City University responds to the trust and the expectation of the public. Therefore we continuously provide excellent education and studies for the cultivation and creation of “Wisdom and Beauty,” at the same time, we try to do our best to be useful to society. View full university