Welcome to Shimane University!

We hope you will learn and enjoy many things while you are at this university.  Not only will you be able to gain knowledge for your specialties but you will also have the opportunity, if you wish, to partake in mountain & marine sports, as well as traditional Japanese culture from ancient Japanese shrines and temples to beautiful arts, tea ceremony and of course Japanese cuisine.  All this is available to you within the beautiful natural landscapes of Shimane Prefecture.    

An old master of tea ceremony once said “Treasure every meeting, for it will never recur”.  Keeping this in mind it is important for us all to communicate with each other as well as living with compassion.  

We welcome both students and researchers from all countries and offer you a flexible program that will allow you to grow.  We are also preparing for extra interdisciplinary majors in some departments as well as increasing the number of courses in English.  We hope that such programs may extend your own learning area.

We aim to promote more international exchange programs in the near future. We realize too that as we educate you, you educate us at the same time. To maintain good relations with you in future we must come to know each other more and more.  This comes from our belief in the importance of contributing to the development of a sustainable society where human beings live together in peace and harmony.

We offer you information about what we offer in the following pages.  I would like to heartily welcome you to Shimane University.  Let us help you achieve your ambition to succeed in the future.

President of Shimane University　 Dr. Shotai Kobayashi