Campus Facilities and Services

For Students

Residence Center

The Residence Center serves as the point of contact for inquiries about dormitories and single-person lodging, and is available for consultations on a variety of issues.

Center for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)

The Center for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC) is the central coordinating office for all students, faculty, and staff coming to KGU and going abroad. In the promotion of international education for the university, the CIEC office sponsors various lectures, seminars, and international conferences to which distinguished scholars, policy-makers and legislators are invited as speakers. CIEC also promotes cooperation with international organizations such as the United Nations Volunteers which sends student volunteers each year to developing countries in order to support development in various areas. All administrative matters applicable to exchange students are dealt with through the CIEC office.

Health Care Center

The Nishinomiya Uegahara and Kobe Sanda Health Care Centers are staffed by various specialists at different times of the week. Check the most up-to-date timetables via the link below.

Timetables for the Health Center (NUC/KSC)

Organization for Information Strategies (IT Support Center)

The IT Support Center is located on the first floor of the Media Building. Students can get help with their KG System ID and password reissued. Students can also get help to connect to the university Wi-Fi.

Student Union Building

The Student Union Building is composed of two sections; the Student Union New Building, and the Student Union Old Building. Cafeterias, restaurants, and student club rooms are located in these buildings. The Big Papa cafeteria is the largest cafeteria on campus, and serves food a la carte, set lunches, noodles, curry, and various other dishes at expensive prices. The Coop Forum Store stocks a variety of stationery, electronics, food, daily necessities, clothes, Kwansei Gakuin merchandise, and sports goods.

Kwansei Gakuin Hall

Opened in the fall of 1999, this facility houses a reception hall, a formal restaurant, a conference room, seminar rooms, a lounge, and the Bates Chapel. The restaurant, "Poplar," offers regularly alternating special main courses with health-concious modern American dishes. Events such as Coffee Hour will be held in this location.

Prayer Room

Not restricted to a particular religion, the Prayer Room is open to everyone. There are separate rooms for men and women, each with its own tatami floor. It is located in the lobby on the third floor of Annex 4.

Campus Chapels

There are many chapels located throughout the KGU campuses, and the “Chapel Hour” program is hosted by each school’s chapel. The “Chapel Hour” program has been a significant feature of Kwansei Gakuin's educational philosophy of Christian education since its foundation. It takes the form of a Christian worship service, but does not require every student in attendance to follow the Christian faith. Chapel Hour is held in each school's chapel from 10:30 to 11:00 (10:40-11:10 at KSC) every day during the school term.

Centers and Institutes

Center for Japanese Language Education

Established in 2011 to enhance Japanese language education for international and exchange students and to develop instructional materials and programs through research and education.

Language Center

Offers intensive programs in English, French and German along with elective foreign language courses. Conducts collaborative research on language and culture. The Center’s wide range of research activities includes providing research seminars in seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Korean), and publishing a research journal.

Research Center for Christianity and Culture

A human-centered research and education organization that draws on the Christian ideals the school was founded on to seek answers and meanings to modern issues. Holds educational activities and releases research project results in academic journals. Holds seminars and presentations.

Christian Center

Research Center for Teacher Development

A center for students who want to qualify as teachers, school librarians or museum curators. Holds briefings, one-on-one meetings, educational training, and guidance for hands-on training in areas such as home care. Also carries out research on practical school education, releasing findings in its ‘Bulletin’ and other journals.

Center for Common Educational Programs

Plans, proposes and runs a series of courses open to all the university’s students known as the Common Educational Program. Provides a wide array of courses with objectives such as getting students motivated to study at university, and providing broad acculturation and skills.

Center for the Study of Higher Education

A center created in April 2010 to improve faculty teaching skills and student learning skills by promoting a broad range of measures driven by specialist knowledge. Work areas include education development/support using faculty development (FD) and information communication technology (ICT), and creation and augmentation of educational environments. Also promotes the LMS (Learning Management System).

Institute for Human Rights Research and Education

Carries out various human rights education and research activities that deal with a wide range of discrimination issues from the perspective of human rights. Holds research seminars, publishes a research journal and educational pamphlets, plans human rights issues presentations for lectures in human rights courses, and collects and organizes human rights publications and materials.

Office for Educational Collaboration

For the coordination of Kwansei Gakuin’s comprehensive and integrated education, provides a single point of contact, gathers, shares, and transmits information.

Institute for Advanced Social Research

Established in 2008 as a center for theoretical and practical study of modern social phenomena and problems. Reexamines established theoretical concepts and survey methods. Promotes cutting-edge social survey research projects by partnering with research facilities in Japan and overseas. Works with public and private-sector organizations to feed back research findings into a wide range of applications in the public interest.

Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance

The first research facility in Japan devoted to research on reconstructing disaster-struck areas. It was created on January 17, 2005, the tenth anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Kobe in 1995. In 2008, the institute, a research center open to the public, joined with nationwide researchers, media representatives, volunteers and lawmakers in creating the Japan Society for Disaster Recovery and Revitalization. In 2009, the institute released a draft for a Basic Law on Disaster Reconstruction, and is now working on promoting it.

Institute for Industrial Research

Created in 1934 to carry out economic and industrial research, the Institute conducts analytical research on the economic activities of society using a wide variety of approaches. It organizes lectures on contemporary issues by speakers from academic societies, government departments and the private sector. It also acts as the administrative office for the EU Institute in Japan, Kansai (EUIJ-Kansai) at Kwansei Gakuin University, and in that context promotes research and lectures specifically on the EU. With its stock of EU publications and access to databases containing statistics on industry and the economy, the Institute supports research activities of teaching staff, researchers as well as students.

Child Center

The Child Center, established in 2010 on the Nishinomiya Seiwa Campus, focuses on three project areas: assisting children and child rearing in the communit, supporting the development of children with special needs, and offering a toy room as a resource for students’ education and research.

Kwansei Gakuin Archives

We hold the records that document the history of Kwansei Gakuin and its management, staff, and students from its foundation in 1889. In order to use the past in the present to enhance the future of our institution, we publish the Journal of Kwansei Gakuin History annually and the Archives Newsletter semiannually and hold seminars occasionally.