Ritsumeikan University

Ritsumeikan University seeks to promote both rigorous scholarship and individual insights while nurturing just and ethical global citizens. Based upon the university’s founding ideals of Freedom and Innovation and its core educational philosophy of Peace and Democracy, this educational mission furthers our core commitment to, in the words of the great Ritsumeikan postwar chancellor Hiroshi Suekawa, encouraging students to “believe in the future, live for the future.”

Faculty and staff within the various offices and departments of Ritsumeikan University work closely together to support the individualized learning and development of its many students from a diverse array of backgrounds, empowering those students who are the agents in the process of “Creating a Future Beyond Borders.”