Nippon Bunri University

The four years you spend at Nippon Bunri University (NBU) will provide the foundation for your future life, fostering an enhanced insight and level of judgment that will enable you to move forward in your subsequent life with vigour. Furthermore, NBU aims to nurture in students a desire to apply their abilities to contribute to society and its people.

At the time of its foundation in 1967, NBU set the goal of furthering the connection between industry and academia as its founding principle, and this remains the central pillar of the University's philosophy today. This is encapsulated in the “ningen ryoku” education concept, which aims not only to enhance the individual abilities of each student, but to create an environment in which students develop the power to enrich and shape their society.

University is an academic place and a place for building one's character. As well as acquiring the knowledge and skills required for one's chosen profession, the four years a student spends at university is also an opportunity to acquire the self-reliance and confidence needed to become an effective member of society. he role of universities have as a higher-education institution tasked with nurturing the asset that society possesses in its younger generation is particularly important in such circumstances, with a responsibility to foster human resources that can seek ways to build a better local society while assimilating the experiences and lessons of previous generations.

Thus, with the basis of the university's three guiding principles, ‘Industry-university Collaboration’, 'Ningen Ryoku' and the ‘Contribution to society and the local community’, and within the replete Oita environment, NBU seeks to foster graduates who can fuse high-level knowledge in their specialist area with vocational abilities and 'ningen ryoku' to become leaders in their regional economies and societies.

NBU is guided by three education principles:‘Industry-university Collaboration’, ‘Ningen Ryoku' and ‘Contribution to society and the local community’. Against this background, while approaching the nurturing of human resources motivated by the belief that young people are an asset that supports the development of the industrial sector, which in turn helps to build a better local community, we are also promoting educational reform that places much value on the growth of the students.

`Ningen Ryoku' refers to the ability to organically connect the knowledge, skills and ambitions acquired at university through subsequent experiences within society in order to have the power to play an active and effective role in society throughout one's life.

A person's `Ningen Ryoku' is gradually honed through the experience of seeking solutions to questions that arise through one's many contacts with society and with the many value systems held by society's members.

As a consequence we regard the our domain of study to be not just within the university campus, but to encompass the whole of Oita, providing a balanced synthesis of abundant natural resources, local culture and a variety of industries against which we are developing an education program that includes awareness of the difference between generations, industries and areas of specialisation.

We are working together with the regional community and the industry in striving to create a new generation in which every young person can join hand-in-hand with their peers in exerting their 'Ningen Ryoku' and projecting their personality, and thereby play a leading role in building a better society,