Osaka University of Foreign Studies

The number eventually increased to 25, in accordance with OUFS's development as Japan's major center for foreign language education and research.

Based on this donation the Japanese government established the "School of Foreign Affairs (SFS)" in Uehonmachi, Tennoji-ku, Osaka with the aim of nurturing internationally minded personnel in Japan.

However its characteristics of the education, specialized in the language and culture of certain society, was commonly understood as a training center of espionage during World War II, and therefore, the school was obliged to be renamed "Osaka College of Foreign Affairs" in April 1944.

As one of the only two national universities of foreign studies in Japan (along with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) OUFS offered an extensive variety of modern languages (Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Indonesian, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Swahili, Russian, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese) as majors, and a large number of other modern and ancient languages (such as Ainu, Catalan, Cantonese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hausa, Karen, Lingala, Lithuanian, Nepali, Polish, Romanian, Shan, Tamil, Tibetan, Tok Pisin, Uyghur, Welsh, Manchu, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Pali, Latin, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Old Church Slavonic, and Esperanto) as minors.

OUSFS moved its location to the current Senba-Higashi area of Minoh-city (Osaka University Minoh Campus).

The time taken between Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Rail Terminals is around an hour, depending on the mode of transport used.