The university was founded in 1987 as an extension of Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages in Tokyo.

Other departments include Chinese, Spanish, Korean, International Communication, and Languages and Culture.

In 1996, the Graduate School was designated as a "Center of Excellence (COE)" by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

In 2001, the Center for Language Sciences (CLS) was established to continue and deepen COE's research achievements.

Students in International Communication study English, communications and computers, and students in Languages and Culture also study English and choose another language as their major from Spanish, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, or Portuguese.