Kochi University

With the agreement of the Japanese people and in accordance with 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 principle of comprehensive education through regional collaboration and by producing professionals who boast profound problem-solving capabilities. Based on the special features of the Kuroshio Region, our international education and published research contribute both to regional communities and international society.

We aim to realize comprehensive general education by helping students to acquire both specialized knowledge in their diploma area and diversified ways of thinking in multi-disciplinary fields, thereby producing individuals who can contribute to the development of society with flexible, transferable skills.

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 at the promotion of academic exchanges, including multidisciplinary exchanges, within and across universities, especially among those in the Kuroshio Region.

We strengthen our system of regional research collaboration, so as to solve regional problems both systematically and flexibly. 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 special regional resources throughout our international education and research collaborations.

Our overarching principle is to develop GLOCAL Education and Research, offering to the world our regionally generated research products and in turn applying the benefits of global trends to our regional communities.

We have library and information sections in 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. In addition, we plan to activate our learning, education, and research activities and promote the effectiveness of university operating process, which will result in the support of local information activities, and will contribute to offering data-warehouse academic information to the local society. 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 local 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 highspeed 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 common 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. he facilities may be used for self studies out of class.