Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University

Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University offers student-centered, sensitive and thorough education, based on the founding spirit of our university ‘Education is love’ and the educational concept of ‘Gentleness, honesty, co-operation and team work’. With a deep sense of responsibility towards the students to help them find employment after graduation from the university, we aim to inculcate the basic skills together with applicable skills which are required in the local communities.

Our university focuses on contribution to local communities and aims to cultivate talent of students, who mainly find employment with local companies, and are employed as officers and teachers locally, after going through our educational program. A unique feature of our university is that students can study a wide range of subjects and satisfy many intellectual curiosities by undertaking courses, which are combinations of subjects drawn from the faculties of arts and sciences. This approach corresponds well with the recently emerging issues of globalization, information society and aging society.

We respect gentleness, honesty, co-operation and teamwork among our students in an educational system that we call ‘Integral Education involving Study with the Whole Body’. Students make use of our tutor system and small ability-based classes to refine their basic manners and etiquettes, basic social skills and communication abilities which lead to a successful assimilation in local communities. In addition, customized teaching arrangements for building various capacities and for obtaining licenses are also provided. Another unique characteristic of this university life is that each and every student can enjoy a ‘Bright and Fun-filled Joyous College Life’.

Torataro Tsuru, the founder of our institute. What drove the founder to dedicate himself to education appears to have been his profound caring and willingness to give everything he owned to the youth who were deprived of educational opportunities due to economic, physical, and various other reasons. It was this characteristic that helped his students. He made every effort for those who were poverty-stricken and never gave up on the young who gave in to temptation. The founder’s statue was erected in 1965 and has an inscription that reads “Education is Love.” Those who carried on the wishes of the founder later described the essence of his educational spirit in this message. The founder never publicly announced “Education is Love,” but yet, he was the one who put “Education is Love” into practice. The founding spirit of our university, “Education is Love,” was therefore created by the founder’s educational practice “Love can never exist without practicing it.” This is a message with deep significance. Our institute’s mission is to faithfully carry on the founder’s spirit.