In the Faculty of Letters you can study the diversity of liberal arts fields essential to our century, from education, psychology, and philosophy, history, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, languages and literature, and culture. Moreover, we prize "face-to-face" education and are committed to small-group instruction in seminars of fewer than ten students, where teachers and students can form warm personal relationships and academics can be pursued in both a serious and lively atmosphere. The Faculty of Letters is an ideal place for international students to study Japan's history, culture, and environment comprehensively and deepen international understanding through contact with the many overseas students enrolled in it. We also have active exchange programs with overseas universities with academic agreement, providing students with an opportunity to study abroad. In addition to these unique opportunities for cross-cultural experience, the Faculty offers practical training in information technology from the first and second years, and a choice of major and preparatory instruction for the senior thesis from the freshman year onward, organically connecting robust specialization with an interface with contemporary society.

To train the future leaders of society, providing them not only with knowledge and technical skills, but with broadly informed judgment and the capacity to act from a global perspective.

The goal of the Faculty of Letters is not the imparting of knowledge that can be put to immediate practical use after graduation. Its aim is to foster individuals with broadly informed judgment and the capacity to act from a global perspective. It sends people out into the world who are confident, persuasive, and able to get their point across when the need arises. This is what the Faculty of Letters sees as its basic mission, since survival as leaders of society in the new era of the 21st century will require not merely specialized knowledge and skills, but the development of logical modes of thinking and a clear sense of ethics. In the Faculty of Letters one can also earn teaching certificates and a wide range of accreditation for work as museum curators, social education directors, and the like. The Faculty aims at nurturing educational and cultural leaders who have an accurate grasp of the broader relationships between humanity and the environment, and whose actions are guided by reason and an international perspective.