Counseling Services

At Osaka University’s Counseling Offices, their professional counselors and staff will do their best to put themselves in your shoes and listen before the give advice.

Visitors to Harassment Counseling Offices will receive advice and support from counseling experts. These counseling experts are there to protect your reputation and privacy, so you can breathe easy when making use of the services at Harassment Counseling Offices.

OSIPP and Osaka University strives to create an environment supportive of education, research, and work. The only way this goal can be achieved is for all members of the university community to work together in eliminating all types of harassment.

Harassment takes many forms. We aim to eliminate these 3!

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment refers to any unwanted sexual comments or behavior by a faculty, staff, or student directed at another faculty, staff, student, or other person – unwanted sexual comments or behavior that takes advantage of the relationship(s) between the offender and victim.

Maternity/Child-Rearing Harassment

Maternity/Child-Rearing Harassment refers to any unwanted comments or behavior by a faculty, staff, or student directed at another faculty, staff, student, or other individual regarding pregnancy, childbirth, leave taken due to pregnancy, childbirth, child-rearing, or long-term care of a family member, or use of other related systems or measures.

Academic Harassment

Academic harassment refers to any inappropriate and unfair comments or behavior by faculty, staff, or student about another individual’s research, education, or study – comments and behavior unfairly and inappropriately taking advantage of the offender’s official position, authority, or relationship(s) with the victim

Power Harassment

Primarily a labor issue, power harassment refers to any inappropriate and unfair comments or behavior by faculty or staff about the work of another faculty or staff member — comments or behavior unfairly and inappropriately taking advantage of the offender’s official position, authority, or relationship(s) with the victim.

• • Download the Anti-Harassment Policy of Osaka University
  • Contact one of OU’s Harassment Counseling Offices
  • Read the Harassment Counseling Newsletters 

Do You Need Immediate Help? You can speak with a counselor at the Harassment Counseling Office.

OSIPP has established a Human Rights Relief Committee to provide consultation on the human rights of teachers and students.

OSIPP Academic Harassment Guidelines (Japanese Only)

The OSIPP guidelines will only apply to matters not covered by the Osaka University guidelines.

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The Activities of Human Right Relief Committee

1. The mission of the Human Rights Relief Committee is to prevent sexual harassment and other violations of human rights among faculty members, students, and other concerned parties, and to conduct educational activities to this end, as well as to provide consultation, investigation, and relief for victims. The Human Rights Relief Committee will respond as follows.

1. • We, as counselors of the department, will discuss the matter at hand and, depending on the nature of the case, will investigate the facts, determine responses, recommend remedies or prepare reports as necessary.
   • Members who have an interest in the case will be excluded from deliberations. To ensure neutrality and promptness, investigative panels may be established under committees.
2. As a point of contact for complaints, the members of the Human Rights Relief Committee respond to inquiries from faculty members, students, and other relevant parties.
   We will maintain the confidentiality of consultations and will not divulge any information during or after the term of office. If there is a consultation, we will respond as follows according to the content of the consultation.

• • We, as counselors of the department, will be consulted individually. Depending on the case, we will advise you to file a complaint to the Human Rights Relief Committee. We will refer you to an external
    consultation organization if necessary.
  • The members will call on the Human Rights Relief Committee to address the issue as a committee.
  • We will discuss remedial measures in cooperation with the Human Rights Committee of Osaka University and the Harassment Consultation Office.

OSIPP has established a student life committee to deal with various issues related to the student life of graduate students.
The Student Life Committee provides consultation and advice to graduate students regarding their student lives.  We will maintain the confidentiality of consultations and will not divulge any information during or after the term of office.

In the future, we hope to enhance our support system for graduate students in finding employment by providing general information, inviting recruitment missions to international organizations, and holding career seminars.

We have also a consultation desk for students with disabilities to support.
If you have any problems or need to consult with us, please contact us at the following email address or contact the Educational Affairs Section.

E-mail Address: shien@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp

The Educational Affairs Committee is a committee that deals with educational affairs and entrance examination matters.

We help students improve their study and research environments.

1. Procedures for Class Enrollment, etc.
2. Relationships with teachers (Changes in academic supervisor etc.)
3. Studying abroad
4. Regarding the study and research environment and others