The educational principles of the University of the Sacred Heart is based on the vision held by Madeleine Sophie Barat who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart more than 200 years ago. We can perhaps compare the age of confusion following the French Revolution that she overcame to our current situation in Japan and throughout the world. Based on a strong Christian educational philosophy that each individual is recognized as a unique child of further their education, so that they could expand their perspective, and become independent decision-makers who would put their ideas into practice in order to meet the needs of the times.