The International University of Health and Welfare was founded in 1995 as Japan's first comprehensive university specializing in medical care and welfare, aspiring to train various medical and welfare professionals, including doctors, nurses, rehabilitation specialists, medical technologists, and radiological technologists, and improve their status. In addition to six university hospitals in Tokyo, Chiba, Tochigi, and Sizuoka prefectures, the IUHW Group also operates Sanno Hospital, Sanno Birth Center, and Sanno Medical Center, which offer highly specialized medical care coupled with warm and attentive services. The Group also operates around 60 other hospitals and facilities, predominantly in Tokyo, Tochigi, and Fukuoka prefectures. All 10,000 staff members and 9,000 students in our Group share both the university's principles of "focusing on well-balanced individuals with a solid sense of humanity," "directing towards the attainment of global standard," "being strongly connected to and fully open to the community," and "building a society for mutual respect and support," and also our hospitals' and medical facilities' principle of "dignity and quality of life." These shared princ...iples form our identity and over the years they have provided the basis for the various independent organizations of the Group to advance together in unity, sharing the same ideals.