Training Legal Minds Who Can Contribute to Society in the Public or Private Sectors

The Department of Law aims to train professionals who thoroughly understand individual laws and the justice system.
Through the four-year program, students develop a legal mind and become law professionals who can grapple with legal problems in the real world.

Department Characteristics

As part of the only College of Law in Okinawa, the Department of Law provides a specialized curriculum to train professionals with a solid grounding in law and a broad understanding of regional, political, and economic issues.

1. Acquire a broad and deep understanding of law relating to everyday life, business, international relations, and other fields.
2. Develop an international outlook that connects Okinawa to the world due through an understanding of international law, foreign law, and diplomacy.
3. Gain a broad understanding of regional, political, and economic issues and the ability to think critically in a way that will be useful when you enter society.

The Department of Law aims to train individuals with legal minds who can logically and reasonably examine societal problems and develop flexible and appropriate solutions. The department, therefore, seeks highly motivated applicants with high aspirations, a sense of justice, fortitude, and the following characteristics:

1. A broad interest in and knowledge of the workings of society.
2. An ability to examine issues flexibly and logically and to express an opinion.
3. An ability to listen to diverse opinions and strive to find appropriate solutions.

In the Department of Law, students acquire a basic understanding of law in their first two years by taking Introduction to Law and required subjects that focus on the constitutional, civil, and criminal law code sections of the Six Codes (Japanese Constitution I, Civil Law General Provisions, and Introduction to Criminal Law.) After this, students study the three remaining sections of the Six Codes (the commercial, civil procedure, and criminal procedure codes), and other fields of law, such as administrative law, social law, international law, and legal theory. In addition, students can choose from various subjects dealing with regional, political, and economic issues, depending on their interests and critical concerns. Students are also required to take small group seminars, in which they research and present their topics of interest. In their freshman and sophomore seminars, students study broadly about problems in law and political science, and from their junior year, they study more deeply about individual laws. The department aims to train professionals with legal minds and other skills through this curriculum.