Accordingly, specialist education within the Division of Humanities can be pursued in a broad horizontal framework. The faculty of the Division of Humanities are known for the breadth of their expertise and interests. Japanese and non-Japanese professors alike share a common spiritual foundation based on the Western cultural tradition of Christianity. United in this way, they offer their students not simply knowledge, but an opportunity to understand the human condition. Students in the Division of Humanities examine the cultural accomplishment of human beings in the past and reflect on what human beings can and should be in the future.
Literature broadens the minds and hearts of human beings.
Philosophy and Ethics demand a thorough investigation of basic issues concerning human relationse. The study of religion is the study of human life.