Among universities offering four-year courses and specializing in social welfare, Nihon Fukushi University has the longest history, having celebrated the 60th anniversary of its foundation in 2017, and since then, various reforms have been carried out within the university. In 2017, the Faculty of Sports Science was newly established on the Mihama Campus, as a result of which we now have 8 faculties and 10 departments. After this faculty was newly established, the Center for Sports and Sciences was renovated and improved so as to have facilities for experiments, exercises and practices related to sports to be carried out in various ways. Also, the Faculty of Social Welfare was reformed by introducing four special courses and a scholarship entrance exam system. In 2018, we opened a research institute that enables us to cultivate humanity, and develop and realize independent, collaborative and inquisitive learning with local teachers, while collaborating with local elementary, junior and senior high schools and facilities for preschool education and childcare in and around the Chita Peninsula.
In the current academic year (2019), we are going to work on full-scale recurrent education business in order to help those who have already been working in society to acquire a new professional career at our university. While improving their expertise through the programs offered by the faculties, departments and centers, students learning at our university aim to acquire the Nippon Fukushi University Standard, which represents five strengths related to fukushi (well-being for ALL). They also aim to become leaders, or fukushi meisters, who can contribute to the realization of a collaborative society where all people support each other and actually feel the benefit of fukushi (happiness in normal living), while maintaining the dignity of human beings in their community. Our sincere desire is for our students to grow into unique characters as meisters who will create a community-inclusive and multi-cultural society through studying at our university.