Gunma University of Health and Welfare

Our institution, Shoken Gakuen, has for its motto the four virtues of sober earnestness, piety, sincerity, and kindness, coupled with Confucian jen or humanity. We aim at character education developed from the Confucian central virtues of : humaneness, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faithfulness. With this jen, we get the sum total of all virtues as the founding philosophy. From the turn of the century through the Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei era, a great change has been required of welfare education in line with developments in politics and the economy. The university is positive in offering intellectual and human resources to local communities, and in turn, in engaging with special lecturers and experts in their respective fields to conduct educational exchange with the community. The university also offers the general public a lifelong education as an open school for learning, free from the formalized sense of values. The university systematizes welfare, education and health scientifically and theoretically, at the same time organizing a welfare and health center for research and counseling for people of all ages, so that they will be on visiting terms with the university. The university is also eager to cultivate a sense of international awareness through international exchanges with China and other Asian countries, Europe and America.