Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University is a new university for women which opened on April 1st, 1994. We take an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to education, based on the underlying principles of Christian humanism. This four year university has two faculties: the Faculty of International Human Studies and the Faculty of Nursing and Nutrition. Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University is located in Satsuma-Sendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture, which is situated in the southernmost part of Kyushu, one of the four main islands that make up Japan. Kagoshima Prefecture has long been a doorway for the intake of innovation from overseas. The people of Kagoshima are well known for their enterprising spirit.
Inspired by the Christian belief that each person has an irreplaceable value and role in this world, Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University wishes to be an academic community where staff and students work together to discover each person's intellectual potential and develop it into a well-trained and mature personality.
The Faculty of International Human Studies tries to do this in two different fields; language and culture studies and an interdisciplinary study of childhood and youth, which are both fundamental in dealing with the problems of the modern world. Nursing and Nutrition are vital to the enhancement of the quality of life for all people, whatever their physical condition.
Recent incidents throughout the world convince us of the urgent need for mutual understanding and tolerance between peoples of different racial and cultural backgrounds. The best and most natural way to achieve this is of course direct contact taking place in conducive circumstances. Study overseas at Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University provides this opportunity in a most suitable environment.
Kagoshima has a long tradition of positive attitudes towards other cultures and the overseas students of our university are well received by the local people here in Sendai.
The Sendai campus is the main campus of our university, but the students of the Faculty of International Human Studies spend their first two years at the Kagoshima campus, where we have a junior college and high school with a much longer history and tradition.
Knowledge should lead to love through understanding. Our university is dedicated to Our Lady's immaculate heart, which is full of love of God and humankind. Let us prepare ourselves, under her graceful guidance, to play whatever role is expected of us in the present society to restore peace and harmony in our world.