Otemae University is a liberal arts oriented school that began in 1946. It is in the Kansai region of Japan and has three campuses: one in Itami, one in Osaka, and a co-educational university in Nishinomiya. "Our mission is to help students to move on successfully in their life irrespective of career choice or life path. To this end, Otemae University focuses on liberal arts as well as specialized education. Although liberal arts education is sometimes misunderstood in Japan and considered as useless in the ever-changing world, we believe genuine liberal arts education enables students to develop the most essential skills, or more specifically, “problem-solving ability” that is absolutely indispensable to function and succeed in society, whether they are in the realm of academics, business or any other field of human life."