Message from the Dean

Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Norikazu Kobayashi

Japan’s healthcare is currently at a critical crossroads. Pressing challenges such as the reform of the social security system, growing disparities between supply and demand, and the need to ensure the quality of healthcare professionals in the face of increasingly advanced knowledge and technologies must be addressed without delay.

In this context, to further high-quality healthcare in these circumstances, each and every healthcare professional must pair excellent medical science and first-rate clinical skills with the adaptability to cope flexibly with any problem that may arise. Yet, above all, healthcare professionals require a core humanity to always respect others, to proceed through life with others, and to learn from others. It is this humanity that allows healthcare professionals to bring happiness to patients and the disabled, as well as to their families and caregivers.

The Faculty of Health Sciences serves as a hub of knowledge and reason in the field of healthcare. It is you — filled with ambition and passion — who will shape its future and lead the way in tomorrow’s health and medical care. We warmly welcome all those who carry a heartfelt desire to support others and make a meaningful difference.

Philosophy and Characteristics of the Faculty

The Faculty's mission is to educate healthcare professionals possessing a rich sense of humanity, a broad education, advanced expertise and skills, and the ability to put their learning into practice in the real world.

A key characteristic of the Faculty is collaborating with the local community. As a university medical faculty situated in Metro Tokyo, the Faculty pursues multifaceted collaborations with the local governments and communities in Metro Tokyo, Arakawa Ward, and other jurisdictions, in order to resolve the wide-ranging health and medical challenges that Tokyo, as major metropolis, is grappling with. Tokyo is also a global city. One of our objectives, then, is to educate medical professionals who have an international perspective. To this end, the Faculty takes part in overseas exchanges through various research and educational programs.

To fulfill these objectives, the Faculty provides a program that educates advanced healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators capable of discovering their own challenges and thinking and acting independently. More specifically, first-year students study academic subjects and specialized introductory subjects with students from other faculties on the Minami-Osawa Campus to gain a broad perspective within the vast curriculum only a university can offer. In their second and subsequent years, students study on the Arakawa Campus, where they acquire advanced specialized knowledge and skills necessary as a healthcare professional.