Shiga Junior College

Message from the President

SJC with a Lively Energy to both Academic and Extracurricular Activities

Shiga Junior College (SJC) established in 1970 as a women’s college, sponsored by the Educational Corporation Sumire Gakuen with a ninety-year history, is in the third year of a new system of coeducation. This coeducational system brings in more than 10 percent male students of all freshmen and we are all extremely pleased that the campus is bursting with vitality of all students.

Under the founding philosophy of the Sumire Gakuen, “the Harmony of Heart & Hand,” SJC has an educational aim that students should obtain wide knowledge and highly technical skills with a rich sense of humanity.

SJC consists of three departments as below. Our students have their own career goal and they study:

1.	in the Department of Human Environmental Sciences, to be a dietician, a pastry chef (pâtissier), or a specialist of daily ecological lifestyle,
2.	in the Department of Childcare and Preschool Education, to be a kindergarten or nursery school teacher who helps children shape their future, and
3.	in the Department of Business Communication, to be a medical processor or an office worker as hospitality-minded staff in the society.

Through their learning, they are acquiring practical abilities in their fields.

Our students and faculty & staff members will cooperate and learn together to achieve our educational aim. SJC is a place where students can cultivate themselves and find the potential for their future expansion. It is also a place where students can meet each other to share their knowledge through communication. The energy sources of SJC can be found in the fact that each and every one of the students enjoys their academic and extracurricular activities on and/or off campus.

Through such education, more than 12,000 graduates have entered the real world and they are gradually playing an active part in society, mainly in Shiga Prefecture. SJC will continue to maintain its tradition full of energy, better job placement and a high employment rate.

April 1st, 2010, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary

Yasumasa Itakura, President