Message from the President
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’.
Tsunetaka Sumomogi，President
Founding Spirit
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.
History
| 1927 |
Torataro Tsuru founded Hiroshima Technical Preparatory School. |
| 1930 |
Hiroshima Technical Academy was established as an affiliate of Hiroshima Technical Preparatory School. |
| 1945 |
The entire school was destroyed by the atomic bomb. |
| 1951 |
Permission was granted to establish Hiroshima Denki Gakuen. |
| 1964 |
Hiroshima Denki Gakuen Junior College was established offering an automotive engineering program (this became the Hiroshima Automotive Engineering Junior College). |
| 1967 |
Hiroshima Denki Institute of Technology was established with the Department of Engineering offering degree programs in electrical engineering and electronics. |
| 1988 |
Hiroshima Automotive Engineering Junior College campus was relocated to Kamiseno, Aki-ku. |
| 1999 |
The corporate and school names were changed to Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin and Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University respectively. The Department of Contemporary Sociology was established. |
| 2003 |
A satellite ‘Tatemachi Campus’ in the center of Hiroshima city was opened. |
| 2004 |
Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University established the Faculty of Informatics and started courses in Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Design. At this time the Faculty of Engineering also added new courses to its program; Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Bio Recycling. |
| 2007 |
Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin celebrated its 80th year. |
| 2008 |
The Faculty of Engineering added a Department of Integrated Engineering course. The Faculty of Informatics was changed to the Faculty of Information Design. |
| 2010 |
・The Faculty of Contemporary Sociology changed its course names from Industrial Sociology Cource , International Sociology Cource, and Social Welfare Cource.
・The Faculty of Contemporary Sociology moved to the Nakano Campus.
・The Tatemachi (satellite) Campus moved to a new location with a new name, Fukuromachi Campus. |
| 2013 |
・Reorganization into 2 faculties, 4 programs, and the Center for General Education.
・The Faculty of Engineering was restructured into the Department of Food, Agriculture and Bio-Recycling and the Department of Manufacturing Engineering.
・The Faculty of Information Design and the Faculty of Contemporary Sociology were restructured into the Department of Information Design and the Department of Contemporary Sociology programs within the Faculty of Information Design and Sociology.
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organization
Faculty of Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering Program
Faculty of Information Design and Sociology
Information Design Program
Contemporary Sociology Program
Center for General Education
Graduate School
Engineering Research Program
Contemporary Sociology Research Program
Faculty of Engineering
The faculty aims to provide students with a foundation of practical skills that can be used flexibly in any field, by letting them build up the necessary scholastic ability for manufacturing, from the basics, regardless of the students’ majors. They can acquire qualifications as well as communication and presentation skills and become practical engineers.
Department of Manufacturing Engineering
The Department of Manufacturing Engineering forms engineers with practical experience
who can handle the responsibility of playing a central role in local industry. The three
department courses of “Mechanical Engineering”, “Electrical and Information Engineering”,
and “Bio-Manufacturing” not only cover product development and design, but also provide
thorough instruction in a wide range of knowledge and technology, such as systems control,
which provides support for all aspects of manufacturing, for total leadership of “Monodzukuri”
sites. Common subjects of the three courses consist of classes in industrial processing,
production control, computer-aided design (CAD), basic dynamics, information engineering
theory and programming. Students also study other general subjects in order to enter the
world as engineers with an excellent balance of both language and culture.
Faculty of Information Design and Sociology
In our contemporary society where information flies past instantaneously, we are required to have skills to find problems as well as to collect, analyze, and send information. In this faculty, students learn about specific IT communication and various social problems and find ways to re-vitalize our society.
Department of Information Design
Students in the Department of Information Design acquire the skills to play an active role in
society upon graduation by using the latest facilities and equipment. Students develop
practical abilities through the following four courses by performing actual creative activities in
linkage with the local community, companies, groups and organizations:
- Information Technology Course: Classes in information technology such as video game
and Internet application programming, and network management
- Communication Design Course: Classes on design technology needed for package design
and creating advertisements
- Arts & Entertainment Course: Classes on contents creation for video, sound, animation,
illustration and similar areas
- Media Culture Course: Classes on information transmission through social media
Contemporary Sociology Program
This program has been utilizing a “researching for assigned tasks approach” in which students accurately understand and solve problems found in this complicated contemporary society with sociological knowledge. To be more precise, we offer hands-on classes such as fieldwork and internship and provide students with more opportunities to research for assigned tasks through communication with others and their own experience in the field.
Business Management Course／International Communication Course／Welfare Management Course
Center for General Education
The Center for General Education is an educational center that provides all students with necessary basic scholastic and corporate skills prior to graduation. All freshmen take general education classes. These Takajo classes provide basic scholastic and work skills, while general education classes cultivate students’ humanity. These are commonly taught to all students in order to improve social and communication competence. The center also supports students in teacher’s certificate classes, qualification acquisition, career education, international exchange, and volunteer activities.
*Takajo classes…The name is given for a class division and is derived from the name of the 496-meter mountain, Takajo-yama, located to the north side of the Nakano Campus.
Graduate School
Engineering Research Program
In order to create leaders in industries and research institutions, our university has a 2-year Master’s program and a 3-year Doctor's program in engineering research. These two programs with an excellent research environment integrate education and research and aim at creating engineers who are also able to educate. The program continuously tries to realize further improvements and create specialists in engineering fields.
Contemporary Sociology Program
Our Contemporary Sociology Program is an accredited graduate institution and has Master’s and doctorate courses. The program has been sending out many highly-qualified specialists in the social activity fields such as public services, education, mass media, service industries, research industries, and various NGOs.
