KANAGAWA

UNIVERSITY
of
Human
Services
 Basic Philosophy of Kanagawa University of Human Services

Human beings are living in a century often referred to as the "Century of Environment" or "Century of Science and Technology."
Although the times are changing, all human beings hope to see the world at peace, while leading healthy and spiritually fulfilling lives,
and being well settled in their local communities.
Our daily lives greatly benefit from scientific knowledge and sophisticated technologies achieved to date, while the natural environment
is subject to "global" issues of pollution in many fields that could possibly be solved by a certain harmony of human activities with the
natural environment.
Reforms and technological innovations have steadily been achieved in health, medical care and social welfare. However, these
changes have caused and are causing problems pertaining to bioethics and human rights. Greater sophistication, specialization and
segmentalization have been developed in these fields to make better use of the findings acquired and technological developments
achieved.
At this time, we should probably keep in mind that the recipients of health, medical care and social welfare are people with feelings
concurrently subject to various elements and aspects. They are not sheer physical entities to be viewed simply from a scientific
perspective.
Thus, each individual should not be treated from any single aspect, but as a whole person, and the priority needs of an individual
should be detected using insight and sympathy, be taken appropriate measures and be provided with optimal human services adapted
to that individual.
To implement a full range of human services, each professional in a respective field should possess the knowledge and skills of
other fields. Moreover, specialists in other fields should also collaborate and cooperate with other professionals, thereby breaking the
boundaries that separate these fields.
To cultivate specialist as required by todays modern age, Kanagawa University of Human Services has set basic educational
philosophy consisted of under mentioned three articles and provided the campus as the base for creating new cultures from an
international viewpoint.
However, the 20th century was often regretfully referred to as "an age of lost humanity." KUHS is committed to being a university that
provides professional education, with emphasis on reliance and dialogue between humans, thereby making the whole world joyful and
hopeful in all respects.

1. Collaboration and Integration in fields of Health, Medical Care and Social Welfare
KUHS nurtures persons who can provide human services with profound insight and acute sensitivity, having a high-level awareness
of human rights and moral values, and who can accept the variety of humanity in the spirit of tolerance.
KUHS follows educational programs that allow students to acquire a wide range of knowledge and skills in the three fields of health,
medical care and social welfare. These educational programs should not be vertically divided, because students must be trained to
become professionals capable of providing comprehensive services.
Moreover, students should assimilate basic knowledge necessary to cope with the technical progress being made in nursing,
nutrition, social welfare, and rehabilitation, thereby becoming professionals capable of utilizing newly acquired knowledge to
contribute to the local as well as international community.

2. Importance on Continuous Lifetime education

As the sophistication and specialization of medical technologies are being intensified, there is a growing need to collaborate and
integrate health, medical care and social welfare services. All professionals in these fields are expected to assimilate a wide range of
knowledge and skills not only in their own fields but also in related ones. Thus, lifetime education is becoming even more important
in the changing environment.
The University provides lifetime education programs based on basic professional education to meet these requirements of active
persons and to enhance the quality levels of persons working in health, medical care and social welfare. Through these lifetime
education programs, professionals in these fields develop their capabilities to cope with various needs, including those for the
increased sophistication and specialization of medical technologies, and for home health/medical care and home nursing.

3. Contribution to Communities
Kanagawa University of Human Services intends to become an open institution that conducts practical research on how to enhance
the levels of health, medical care, and social welfare services corresponding to an ever-changing social environment and new needs,
and makes effective use of its educational resources to play a role in the construction of communities with the participation of local
residents.

To meet the growing needs of bringing up professionals in the fields of health, medical care and social welfare, Kanagawa University
of Human Services was established in 2003.
ORGANIZATIONAL School of Nursing

CHART Faculty of Health and School of Nutrition and

Social Services Liberal Arts Dietetics
Kanagawa University and
of Human Services Human
School of Social Work
Development
School of Rehabilitation
Physical Therapy Major
Kanagawa University of Occupational Therapy Major
Human Services
Graduate School Division of Health
Vice- and Social Services
President Graduate Course of
President Nursing / Nutrition
Health and Social Services Social Welfare / Rehabilitation

Planning and Instruction Office

KUHS Center for
Professional Education Practical Education

Library General Affairs

Student Affairs Office

Secretariat
Planning Division

VIEW OF CAMPUS
The campus of Kanagawa University of Human
Services (KUHS) - embodying the University's basic
concept of "collaboration and integration in fields of
health, medical care and social welfare - comprises
an education and research building, a management
and library building, a lecture room building, a
gymnasium building, and a special space known
as "Communication Plaza" under a large roof panel
for interpersonal discussions between students and
professors.

Site area: 37,821 Total floor area: 41,861

Education and Library and

Research Center University Administration Auditorium

Dining Hall Athletic Center Energy Center

 Faculty of Health and Social Services
Educational Philosophy
Human beings are irreplaceable creatures, in that each
individual is gifted with his/her own specific character. They
make their own living and improve their lives in tune with their
Curriculum
community and the natural environment.
Our faculty, rooted in this notion and sustained by liberal arts,
generates human resource with high ethical mind, tolerance to
different ideas, deep insight and keen sensitivity which enable
them to provide human services to others paying full respect to
the dignity of the recipients.
In addition, it fosters capable individuals who have a wide and
comprehensive knowledge and skills in the area of health,
medical care and social welfare. Their professional, theoretical
knowledge and practice enables them to provide total service
and care.
Furthermore, it fosters promising and competent individuals
who have mastered fundamental science to cope with
the development of nursing, nutrition, social work and
rehabilitation skills. Making the most of that new knowledge,
they are committed to contribute not only to the community
of human beings in Kanagawa Prefecture, but also to the
international society.
To examine and analyze, from a wider perspective, various
problems encountered by individuals or communities and to
work out solutions for them in cooperation with others.
To learn how to make scientific judgments and to take
actions based on high ethical principles of fundamental
human rights, which result in providing the most appropriate
health, medical care and social welfare services to clients.
To acquire extensive knowledge and skill of nursing, nutrition,
social welfare and rehabilitation as well as to learn how to
work in good cooperation with the people concerned.
To acquire the adequate fundamental knowledge and
technical skills in their respective professional domains, and
to cultivate the subjective mind to continue academic studies
in pursuit of truth.
To become a valuable member of a local community as well
as willingly contribute to the wellbeing of the world at large
with international viewpoints.
KUHS offers a comprehensive set of education programs
that not only cover fields of specialty but also cover such
subjects as selected to give students a good and deep
understanding of humans, and to study health, medical care
and social welfare.
The subject "Human Services" which embodies the
University's philosophy, certain subjects in "Liberal Arts and
Human Development," and some subjects in "Collaborative
Subjects" are offered to the students at all four Schools,
thereby providing opportunities to study together. The "Major
Professional Subjects" offered by the University include
lectures on specialized themes, seminars for limited numbers
of students, and external practical work at a hospital
or welfare institution (usually in Kanagawa Prefecture).
Students can thus acquire theoretical and practical abilities.
Upon graduation, every student will have acquired the
qualifications of candidacy for state examination. The School
of Nursing, the School of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the
School of Social Work offer additional courses for acquiring
such qualifications.

Liberal Arts and

Educational Goals
The Faculty of Health and Social Services has these
educational goals for students to acquire ;
To deeply understand human beings, as creatures of no
substitution and no replacement, and to develop competence
in making good international human relationships.
which embodies the University's philosophy
Human Development
For learning about culture and cultural
subjects in order to have a good understand-
ing of humans and the natural environment,
these subjects allow students to become
aware of high moral values, acquire interper-
sonal communication techniques, and an
international perspective.
Subject "Human Services"

Collaborative Subjects
These subjects allow students to
acquire a wide range of practical
knowledge and skills for collaborating
in fields of health, medical care and
social welfare, in order to provide total
services.
Major Professional Subjects
These subjects allow students to
acquire school-specific specialized
knowledge and skills, thereby nurturing
an attitude toward life-long learning.
 The School of Nursing
Educational Philosophy
Respecting the University's and the Faculty's educational
philosophy, the School of Nursing provides educational services
based on the concept of Nursing being a caring process which
intervenes in human and environmental affairs with scientific
knowledge and techniques, toward optimizing health in
individuals, families and the population.
The school will cultivate students to become professionals
capable of assessing the diversified needs of people living in a
changing society, and providing high-quality nursing services in
cooperation with other professions.
Students of the school must enhance their qualities and abilities
throughout their career, in order to contribute to the ongoing
The School of Nutrition and Dietetics
Educational Philosophy
Normalizing the nutritional state is essential for the
maintenance and promotion of health, prevention of disease
and its recurrence, treatment of patients, and successful
nursing. Based on the evidence of life science, the School of
Nutrition and Dietetics cultivates human resources capable of
studying the relationship between nutrition and health, disease
or disability, and searching for different ways to normalize the
state of nutrition, thus contributing to the development of human
health, medical care and social welfare.
Educational Goals
In order to achieve the Faculty's educational goals, our mission
is to help students acquire, by the time of graduation, the
following abilities:
To grasp the relationship between health and nutrition from
a nutritional perspective, and to study and understand how
nutrition affects the maintenance and promotion of health,
prevention of disease and its recurrence, treatment of
patients, and successful nursing.
To systematically evaluate and judge the state of health and/
or nutrition of an individual or individuals in the community.
To systematically and precisely grasp specific issues of
progress of nursing science, health, services and social welfare.
Educational Goals
In order to achieve the Faculty's educational goals, our mission
is to help students acquire, by the time of graduation, the
following abilities:
To take care of individuals,
families, aggregates and
communities, respecting
their initiatives, advocating
human rights and acquiring
communication skills to
form good relationships
with them.
To acquire related scientific
knowledge and techniques,
and accomplish nursing
practice based on scientific evidence and the concept of
human caring.
To become aware of the leadership in collaboration and
cooperation with other nurses, professions and citizens, and
to serve as members of the nursing profession.
To acquire the autonomous attitude of increasing one's
knowledge, continue learning and researching throughout
one's career, and to stay abreast of developments in the
domestic and international nursing industry for contributing
to society.
health and/or nutrition, and social needs for nutrition of an
individual or individuals in the community.
To gain and use the knowledge, techniques, and skills
(nutritional guidance and nutritional support) acquired for
improving dietary habits and the current state of nutrition,
and to evaluate the resulting effects.
To conduct oneself as a professional expert in nutrition
while providing human services in an appropriate nutrition
management system established in fields that include health,
medical care and social welfare.
 The School of Social Work
Educational Philosophy
Our goal as social workers is to recognize the dignity of the
independent citizen, working toward the creation of a society in
which the individual may live and work free of worry, loneliness,
disenfranchisement, and isolation. Founded on a global
awareness of the need for social work, as the KUHS School
of Social Work we seek to enable and promote those talented
individuals with the ability to implement a full range of human
services in our diverse communities.
Educational Goals
In order to achieve the Faculty's educational goals, our mission
is to help students acquire, by the time of graduation, the
following abilities:
To comprehend, understand, and evaluate the over all needs
of the client and help them to achieve self-sufficiency by
fostering an environment in which empowerment may be
fully encouraged.
To efficiently and effectively mobilize our resources based
on an expansive and precise understanding of the history,
fieldwork and expressed needs of the target community,
whether a community expressed on a global or neighborhood
scale.
The School of Rehabilitation
Educational Philosophy
The purpose of Rehabilitation is to integrate the persons with
disability, and caring family into the community for improving
their quality of life.
School of Rehabilitation trains students in practical knowledge
and clinical skills based on scientific grounds, to meet needs
of a diversified individual and the society adequately, with
the ability to practice and to straighten out the problems
independently.
Educational Goals
In order to achieve the Faculty's educational goals, our mission
is to help students acquire, by the time of graduation, the
following abilities:
To promote the formulation of community-based human
services, as a caring society working intimately with its
citizens.
To foster an environment in which theories of social welfare
and their practical implementation are formed to benefit
human services as a whole.
To actively assess through meaningful data how social
institutions and social policies influence the quality of life of
the citizen, and then create goals rooted in these findings.
To cultivate a broad range of community leaders who
are disposed to playing an active role in heightening the
quality of interaction within our dynamic and varied social
communities.
To c u l t i v a t e t h e
fundamental knowledge
and skills of rehabilitative
approach, the ability to
understand client deeply,
and to create and provide
appropriate rehabilitation
services.
With acquisition of
knowledge and skills
of community based rehabilitation, to cultivate the ability
to provide intervention for the maintenance and the
improvement of body function, the improvement of quality of
life for the independent living from children to elderly.
To cultivate the constructive manner to continue lifelong
learning and research for leading role in the field of
rehabilitation in the future.
In physical therapy major, to cultivate knowledge and skills
of the prevention and recovery of physical disabilities
and sports disorders due to disease and accidents, the
contribution of health promotion, the ability to solve the
problem in a wide range of practice.
In occupational therapy major, to cultivate knowledge and
skills to understand human occupation in a scientific manner,
to study the relationship between human and occupation
to maintain and improve health, to cultivate practical
knowledge and skills to facilitate the recovery from physical,
psychological and mental disability.
 Kanagawa University of Human Services Graduate School
Graduate Course of Health and Social Services
Division of Health and Social Services
Educational Philosophy
Due to the declining birthrate and the aging population of
Japan, we face the problems: corresponding the health and
medical services for the prolonged periods of care, performing
qualitative and quantitative improvement for residential care,
and making the architecture for providing client-centered
services. Appropriate interventions are needed to ensure all
individuals lead a satisfactory community life in the stage of old-
KUHS Center for Professional Education
The Center for
Professional Education
was opened in April
2003 together with
Kanagawa University
of Human Services,
for those wishing to
enhance their level
of competence as
active professionals
in the fields of health,
medical care and social
welfare. The Center was
specifically opened to
implement one of the
basic educational concepts of Kanagawa University of Human
Services: to continue lifetime education.
The Center for Professional Education aims to train persons
active in human services so that they may acquire a global
professional perspective. The education program includes
leaders and administrators training, advanced professional
training, cooperation and professional training, and educational
training. All aspects of the program will help students enhance
their practical abilities based on professional knowledge and
skills.
The Center hopes that health, medical care and social welfare
age. To meet such requirement, Kanagawa University of Human
Services Graduate School train students in acquiring health,
medical care and social welfare services in coordination and
integration with global perspective. Developing their specialized
nature of the professions by interdisciplinary communication,
students are expected to become advanced professionals
capable of collaborative contribution for the development of
health, medical care and social welfare services.
Educational Goals
The Graduate Course of Health and Social Services has these
educational goals for students to acquire:
To acquire skills for systemically organizing practical issues
of the problems of health, medical care and social welfare
services, and transmitting the findings to the society.
To acquire the ability to carry out the administrative
leadership in the government, institution and community.
To acquire the ability accumulating practical knowledge and
experience in scientific manner, and enhancing the academic
level of knowledge and finding.
professionals will use the Center as a
base for their study, research, seminars
and information exchange, so that they
may provide more global and well-
cooperated services on their fields.
Objectives of the Center
The Center for Professional Education
organizes educational training that will
help students acquire the abilities for
coping with the increasing sophistication
and specialization of nursing, nutrition,
social work and rehabilitation skills, and to
meet various needs in home medical care
and nursing, specifically focusing on:
Professional ethics, human rights, and cultural awareness for
understanding other people,
Upgraded knowledge and skills for coping with the increasing
sophistication of nursing, nutrition, social work and
rehabilitation skills.
Enhancement of practical knowledge and skills of cooperation
with different fields of health, medical care and social welfare.
Moreover, the Center for Professional Education is engaged
in practical research on challenging problems of local
communities in cooperation with the staffs of hospitals and
welfare institutions.
Library
KUHS has a library
located on the third
and fourth floors of
the Management and
Library Building. This
library has an abundant
collection of books
and scientific journals,
especially relating to
the university's proper fields of nursing, nutrition, social welfare
and rehabilitation. The Library is divided into several sections
including a PC-aided reading space, an audiovisual corner,
study rooms for groups ,a PC-aided study room, and private
booths. Every student can take a seat in any of these rooms
or corners adapted to specific study needs. The University
hopes that all citizens will utilize this library, thus contributing
to meeting social needs. The Library features a collection of
108,000 titles, 1,900 of which are categorized as scientific
journals.
Reading Space, Study Rooms for Groups, and Private Booths
The reading space has 175 seats. Three study rooms for
groups and six private booths are available.
Search Corner
The Search Corner is equipped with an OPAC(Online Public
Access Catalog) that allows you to search for any title among
the library's vast collection. When using fee-based databases,
you can collect information about academic papers widely.
Audiovisual Corner
Users can view any of the audiovisual materials in videos and
DVDs(2,200 titles) owned by the Library.

ACCESS MAP
Kanagawa Prefecture JAPAN
Kanagawa University
of Human Services (KUHS)
Heiseicho 1-10-1, Yokosuka City,
Kanagawa Prefecture
Postal code 238-8522 KUHS
Tel: 046-828-2500
Fax: 046-828-2501
Website: http://www.kuhs.ac.jp/ Tokyo Bay

Access from Narita Airport: Umikaze Park

Users of Keisei Sky Liner train: Transfer at Nippori
Station for the JR Yamanote Line.
Users of JR Yamanote Line train (outbound): Transfer Yokosuka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Yokosuka City Hall
at Shinagawa Station for the Keihinkyuko (Keikyu) Job Placement Office
Line.
Main Kanagawa University
Users of Keihinkyuko (Keikyu) Line train: Exit at Gate
Kenritsu-Daigaku Station. of Human Services
Estimated total railway travel period: 2 hours, 40
minutes Condominium Yasuura Memorial Museum

From Kenritsu-Daigaku Station, it takes about a

5-minute walk to reach the University; it takes visitors National Route 16
exiting Keihinkyuko (Keikyu) Yokosuka-Chuo Station
about a 15-minute walk to reach the University. Yokosuka-Chuo Station

To Yokohama Station Kenhinkyuko (Keikyu) Kenritsu-Daigaku Station To Uraga Station /

Line Misakiguchi
Center for Professional Education
Kanagawa University Kanagawa Industrial and
of Human Services Nakaocho bus stop Technical Junior College (western campus)
KUHS Center
Nakao 1-5-1, Asahi-ku, Yokohama City, for Professional Education Kanagawa Industrial and
Technical Junior College (eastern campus)
Kanagawa Prefecture Futamatagawa Nursing and Welfare
Postal code 241-0815 Senior High School
Tel: 045-366-5800 Kanagawa Cancer Center Drivers License Office

Fax: 045-366-5803
Website: http://www.kuhs.ac.jp/center-homepage/
index.htm

Access by train and bus:

Take the Sagami Tetsudo (Sotetsu) railway train and Supermarket
exit at Futamatagawa Station; it takes about a
20-minute walk to reach the Center. Sagamitetsudo Railway (Sotetsu) - main line North exit / bus terminal
From Futamatagawa Station, you can also take a
Sotetsu shuttle bus ("Untenshikenjo Junkan") and get To Yamato / Ebina Station Futamatagawa Station To Yokohama Station
off at the Nakaocho bus stop. It then takes about a Sagamitetsudo Railway (Sotetsu) - Izumino Line
two-minute walk to reach the Center.
To Shonandai Station

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