The parent body of Meisei University is Meisei Gakuen Institute, which has provided a fulfilling educational experience on the primary and secondary levels in Fuchu City, Tokyo, since 1923. Meisei, incidentally, denotes the planet Venus in an ancient reading taken from classical Chinese. In 1967, the University was licensed to start Distance Education with a single Department of Psychology and Pedagogy. Meisei University was established in 1964 with a mission of “fostering students to achieve self-realization and become people dedicated to society”, as a higher education institution of Meisei Gakuen whose philosophy from its establishment was “to foster students to become people dedicated to the world under a philosophy of harmony”. This kind of person can’t just be fostered by the knowledge through studying alone. It is also necessary to gain the ability to get things done and the judgement to find, address and solve problems. These abilities will be fostered when you face the actual issues.