The fundamental aim of the Graduate School of Law is to develop attorneys who can serve the local community, but who also have an international perspective. That is, making the most of the geographical, cultural, and political characteristics of Okinawa in our legal education. We educate our students to be attorneys who can deal with the many diverse issues in Japanese society today with a keen sense of humanity and a cosmopolitan outlook. We concentrate not just on providing our students with a comprehensive command of the law, but also instilling in their sensitivity a solid sense of humanity. We believe this to be essential for attorneys in terms of the wide variety of legal issues they will face.

The basic legal subjects for training in technical legal knowledge are compulsory. The professional basic subjects for training in lawyer’s responsibilities, ethics, and basic legal skills, will be taught by attorneys. We also offer fundamental-adjacent subjects such as legal philosophy, island economics etc., and developing pioneering subjects such as a hometown lawyer course covering local government law, social security law, bankruptcy law, etc., and an international lawyer course, American legal research, English legal terms, U.S. military base law, and related topics.

Juris Doctoral Program