The Students Services Center

The overall objective of the Center is to ensure that students' lives are safe and comfortable on and off campus. The center also provides assistance as needed so that students may graduate uneventfully. Their major concerns relate to academic or other problems, career paths that include going to graduate school.

The Library andLearning Resource Center(LRC)

The Learning Resource Center houses a large collection of books, journals, both in the Japanese and English Languages, other university bulletins, and audio-visual materials. The computer laboratory is a part of the Center, wherein students may utilize the services for writing terms papers or for other purposes in order to achieve their academic objectives.
In accord with the University mission, the Center is open to the public. In cooperation with the Community Collaborating Center at the University, it may assist people, professionals or otherwise, advance the standard of health and social services.

The Community Collaborating Center

The purpose of the Center is twofold; one is to provide lectures that are related to health matters to the public, and the other is to provide opportunities for health care professionals in order to advance their current knowledge and skills. The Center also coordinates services between communities and health care facilities. The following are selective examples of the major functions of the Center:

1. To provide continuing education programs for nurses (a 6-month course for Certified Expert Nurses in Palliative Care and Wound, Ostomy, Continence has started in October 2005);

2. To plan and deliver continuing education programs based on the needs of health care professionals and communities;

3. To hold a series of lectures that are open to the public;

4. To coordinate activities that are related to education and research with communities, health care facilities, schools and universities, and business industry.

Health Service Center

The Center provides the following services to people on and off campus: regular check-ups, follow-ups based on the results of the regular check-ups, health counseling, first aids, diagnosing and treating general ailments. The Center is staffed by a medical doctor who is on faculty and a community health nurse. Counseling services are provided to students by a counselor on a part-time basis. The problems are emotional and academic in nature. Some of the complaints are related to hassles of daily life as well.