Extra curricula activities

Since the establishment of our company in 1953, we have been carrying “dream of music” to people. Especially while developing, manufacturing and selling the educational musical instruments, we have been spending efforts to promoting activities for the music culture closely related to the real life. We have been contributing to developing musical instruments and educational materials for music with precise design and fine technology, based on our motto “creative minds”. We are promoting and selling products to overseas market (e.g. North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia) via group company, Suzuki Corporation.

Chukyo University has two campuses with 10 undergraduate schools and 9 postgraduate ones. In 2020, we will establish an international faculty and aim to be more strongly connected to the world. We are a member of ISEP. ISEP is an international university association with about 350 member schools in 56 countries. Our over 500 students study abroad at universities in many regions (countries) through ISEP and Individual agreement schools of exchange program.
We are also committed to international activities. For example, research exchanges with overseas universities such as the University of Venice, and implementation of a dispatch project that is a joint project with JICA for the purpose of providing sports guidance to developing countries.

Yamaha Corporation is a manufacture of musical instruments, audio equipment and so on. Such as “Yamaha Music School,” which has more than 60 years’ history, Yamaha has provided original music education program in and out of schools. From 2016, an initiative in Vietnam to promote instrumental music education in primary and secondary education has been selected as a project of “EDU-Port Japan” by MEXT. Under collaboration with government and other organizations, Yamaha proceeds an initiative to deliver joy of music to more children in the world.

Colorbath works on education programs connecting the world, and social business programs creating employments in Japan, Malawi, and Nepal.
Under the mission of “Shape the hope, Nurture the future.” we aim to build a warm-hearted community where everyone can live by their own values.

As a development consulting firm, PADECO meets various challenges through programs and projects across a wide range of sectors, including education and human resources development, transport, urban and regional development, industrial and institutional management, information technology, and the environment and climate change. PADECO is an international consulting firm that has been providing professional services from project conception to completion. Our multinational staff combines extensive experience, technical and managerial skills, and versatility to provide the best solutions to meet the needs of people around the world.

The Faculty of Education of Shinshu University has conducted international joint researches in various fields, such as school health, health education, environmental education and ESD, in collaboration with academic institutions in Asian and African developing countries. Currently, we are conducting an empirical research which includes policy analysis and teacher training in the areas related to health and environmental education. In addition, we are engaged in the development of textbooks and teaching materials especially for teacher training institutions in developing countries. Furthermore, we have provided teacher trainings from developing countries upon request from JICA.