Nakamura Gakuen began life as Fukuoka High School of Nutrition Studies, founded in 1954 by Professor NAKAMURA Haru, who established this educational institution under the following three principles: 1. Never forget your origins, maintain and respect your own beliefs, be grateful at all times and work diligently; 2. Your physical appearance is an expression of your soul; 3. Education and research which unites academia and daily life. We use these principles to combine human, social, cultural, and specialist education into a broad range of comprehensive student-centered educational programs.
Over 30,000 students have graduated from our junior college and 10,000 from our university, all of whom have been instilled with this spirit from our founding days. Our graduates have gone on to contribute to society in numerous ways, including as nutritionists, elementary school and kindergarten teachers, childcare workers, civil servants, and bank employees, working in a variety of commercial fields, such as trading, distribution, and foodstuffs. Nakamura Gakuen has gained a solid reputation in Japan for its high employment rate.
At Nakamura Gakuen, we take a different stance to traditional universities, which merely provide intellectual information and workers to society. Our University, Junior College, Graduate School and Research Institutes make concerted efforts to contribute to the region, collaborate with industry and government, and engage in international exchanges, with the ultimate goal of nurturing leaders at both the local and global levels.