The Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities’ educational philosophy is not just about providing high levels of specialized expertise, but also producing talented individuals who have a wide range of knowledge and skills inhumanities and social sciences.
The predecessor of this faculty was the department of humanities and sciences when this university was still known at the Seventh Higher School. This foundation continued when literature, sociology and sciences where combined to form a faculty when Kagoshima University was established as new national university. Following this, whilst continuing with providing high levels of specialized expertise, the humanities and sciences divisions where split into their own separate faculties. Then, through several periods of reformation, our current faculty was established in 1965 with the specialised fields of law, economics and literature at its core, whilst still maintaining its students’ ability to gain fundamental knowledge and skills from all other areas of learning.
The makeup of our complex modern global society is always advancing, with new value systems and social structures being created at unimaginable speeds.
Therefore, it is very difficult for people to address the various social problems that arise if they only specialise in one particular area. Also, with all the diverse and differing values that people hold today, it is important to gain a good sense of morality through experiencing various areas of study. Todays’ society requires talented individuals who have not only high levels of specialized knowledge, but also morality and a wide-ranging skillset that suits the modern world around them.
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities latest reform was in 2017. This saw a change from the previous 3 main departments of law and politics, economic information and literature into just 2 departments, the department of law, economics and sociology and the department of humanities, which together offer 5 courses. This reform only served to strengthen the faculty as a place of study for humanities and social sciences. Whether you belong to the law, community studies, economics, area and cultural studies or psychology course, our faculty is organised to give you the ability to focus on your own major whilst also gaining knowledge by studying a wider range of differing subjects. Furthermore, in addition to learning the knowledge and skills to solve issues in the local area, students can also improve their international awareness through various overseas study trips and classes that provide practical problem solving skills for wider global issues as well. In this way, I believe Kagoshima University Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities is a department perfectly suited for producing talented individuals that can adequately deal with the ever-changing needs of our modern society.
I look forward to seeing you enrol in our faculty.

The Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, which traces its lineage back to the Kagoshima domain’s Zoshikan school (established in 1773) and to the former Seventh Higher School, is the only faculty of its kind in the Southern Kyushu region that integrates law, the humanities, economics and the social sciences. The Faculty comprises two departments offering five courses: the Department of Law, Economics and Sociology (offering courses in Law, Community Studies, and Economics), and the Department of Humanities (offering courses in Area and Cultural Studies, and Psychology).

The Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities seeks to realize three types of learning: broad learning, in-depth learning, and learning how to utilize what one knows. By providing an educational program that integrates practical, detailed specialist education tailored to the requirements of each individual course with advanced classes that enable students to acquire inter-disciplinary knowledge and awareness of workplace realities, we aim to cultivate talented individuals who combine an in-depth understanding of humanity and society that is based on a wide-ranging outlook, with practical problem-solving capabilities that will enable them to address, in an appropriate manner, the various problems that have emerged in relation to the ongoing processes of digitalization, internationalization and transformation of local communities.

The educational objective of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities is to cultivate talented individuals who possess the practical problem-solving capabilities that will enable them to address, in an appropriate manner, the various problems that have emerged in relation to the ongoing processes of digitalization, internationalization and transformation of local communities.