Fukuyama City University

Fukuyama City University (FCU) is a brand-new university which was inaugurated on April 1st, 2011 as the 81st public university of Japan. The primary missions of FCU are to foster qualified professionals in the fields of school education and urban management and to create new knowledge and skills relevant to developing the sustainable community and society.

"Learn for the Future, Our Town is Our Campus" is the beacon which our FCU community, students, faculty and administration, share.

Fukuyama City University is a four-year coeducational university which was inaugurated in April 2011 as the 81st public university in Japan. Our university consists of two faculties and two departments: Department of Childhood Education of the Faculty of Education and Department of Urban Management of the Faculty of Urban Management. The education system with a small number of students (250 students per academic year) is divided into four quarters. This system provides tiered/focused short-term study, as well as fully enriched personal experience/participation for the fields studied all over the Fukuyama City area, in line with our motto that states, "The city is our campus." All of these features make Fukuyama City University a new type of public university.

As a university in our rapidly changing society, our mission is to create human resources capable of supporting the continuous development of society through persistent intellectual creative endeavors, and to create new forms of learning that meet the demands of the era. Three pillars of Fukuyama City University to fulfill our mission are as follows.

• FCU's first pillar is to foster human resources that are able to contribute to the development of sustainable society as a public university in Fukuyama.
• FCU's second pillar is to extend new knowledge which is useful to solve problems in society and community by encouraging practical and interdisciplinary academic researches.
• FCU's third pillar is the contribution to the local community. As an academic center open to the community, we shall assist cultural development and the development of the local society in keeping with the internationalized era.

Fukuyama City University implements education and research based on the following philosophy in order to achieve the mission of our university. In cultivating a wide range of perspectives and a rich sense of humanity, our university shall cultivate human resources capable of identifying and resolving issues in order to develop a sustainable society in harmony with the environment and with others. Our university implements interdisciplinary education and research, and aims to extend new "Knowledge" through the fusion of specialty fields to correspond with the myriad of issues that are difficult to resolve in modern society by an individual specialty.

By using the strengths of a public university, our university promotes practical education and research that is linked to local childcare centers, schools and other institutions in order to improve the local educational capabilities. By also forging links with industry and administrative organizations, our university takes on the functions of being a "think tank of Fukuyama City", as well as providing lifelong learning and similar opportunities for local residents to enrich the regional culture.