Nanzan University

Nanzan is not so much a single institution as a complex of educational establishments gathered under the organizational umbrella of what is known as Nanzan Gakuen. This educational complex consists of an elementary school and three junior and senior high schools, in addition to the University and its research institutes and campus study centers. All of these institutions were founded either by the Divine Word Missionaries or the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit.

The Nanzan motto â??For Human Dignityâ? identifies Nanzan as an institution whose point of departure is an interest in the human being and whose goal is a fuller awareness of each personâ??s God-given dignity.

The Divine Word Missionaries, an international Catholic religious congregation of priests and broth