Vision and Mission

Vision of Shizuoka University： “Freedom and Enlightenment/Creation of the Future”

Our university started on the path to the present “Shizuoka University” after incorporating the former Shizuoka High School, Shizuoka Teacher Training Institutes I and II, Young Teacher Training Institute and Hamamatsu College of Technology (formerly Hamamatsu Technical Junior College, in 1949) and absorbing Shizuoka Prefectural Agricultural University (in 1951). In these former colleges and high school, an educational policy that placed importance on the independence of students through their “freedom, enlightenment and broadmindedness” was implemented. Above all, at Hamamatsu Technical Junior College, students were educated in the freest environment that took into full consideration their personalities, academic abilities, and capabilities, and respected their individuality. The educational program aimed to fully cultivate their natural endowments under a philosophy of “freedom and enlightenment”.


Such philosophy is essential not only for education but also for original study based on unbinding free ideas and collaboration with a mutually enlightening society. Under this understanding, Shizuoka University will continue the “freedom and enlightenment” in education, study and social collaboration as its mainstay.


With a philosophy of “freedom and enlightenment”, students and teaching staff positively addresses education, study and social cooperation, aiming at the goal of “creating a peaceful and happy future”. As members of the local community, we respect the regional environment and culture, and respond to the expectations of society. Moreover, we will bravely stake serious challenges to global environmental problems, food problems, poverty, war and the collapse of the traditional community and sense of values. Thus, all the people involved with Shizuoka University, noting first and foremost the students and teaching staff, share the philosophy of “freedom and enlightenment/creation of the future” at large and create a peaceful and happy future while trusting in each other, studying and respecting individual diversity.


Under the philosophy of “freedom and enlightenment/creation of the future”, our university recognizes diverse backgrounds and values, forms well-rounded characters full of a noble sense of mission and spirit of inquiry, promotes the creation, succession and utilization of knowledge, and develops along with the society in the name of peace, the happiness of mankind and the future of the earth.