With the Japanese people's agreement and following the Fundamental Law of Education, Kochi University shall promote the development of opportunities for learning and research and the production of human resources.
Kochi University, located between the Shikoku Mountains and the Nankai Trough, is a comprehensive university offering education and research under the slogan From Regionality to Globality and from Globality to Regionality. Based on a philosophy of local, relevant decision-making and regional community collaboration, we aim to help develop a safe, sustainable society where people live in harmony with the environment.
We strengthen our comprehensive education principle through regional collaboration and by producing professionals who boast profound problem-solving capabilities. Based on the Kuroshio Region's noteworthy features, our international education and published research contribute to regional communities and international society.
Our special responsibility as the only national university in Kochi Prefecture is to provide multidisciplinary education in regionality, ocean studies, disaster risk management, and medicine, thereby developing individuals who can contribute to regional communities and activities.
Our research will be centered around human society, the ocean, the environment, and life science, providing benefits to regional communities, including practical disaster risk management.
We also aim to promote academic exchanges, including multidisciplinary exchanges, within and across universities, especially among those in the Kuroshio region.
This is in keeping with our responsibility as an indispensable resource for the regional communities here.
We prioritize our relations with countries in the Asia-Pacific region, utilizing our unique regional resources throughout our international education and research collaborations.
We have library and information sections in the new Kochi University Integrated Information Center. We aim to unify the two functions and manage all kinds of information in a unified way and support high-level information activities at our university. Furthermore, the Kochi University Integrated Information Center not only collectively manages both material information, such as books, journals and magazines, and electronic information that can be distributed through computers, but also contributes to supporting residents' life long learning as a local resident-oriented facility through information technology support and information sharing with local libraries.
The Library Section consists of the Main Library on the Asakura Campus, the Medical Library on the Oko Campus, and the Agriculture Library on the Monobe Campus. The University Libraries have over 740,000 books and 18,000 academic journals, and users can have direct access to these materials. All the materials can also be retrieved on-line.
The center provides a high-speed calculation and filing system, in addition to the internet. It also supports information-oriented education, a remote learning system, a digital library system, and a standard information system for campus use. Specifically, the center is used for information classes, as well as for e-Learning. Graphic software services are distributed throughout the center on each computer. The facilities may be used for self-studies out of class.
