Extracurricular 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.

Our goal is achieving a peaceful world where children of all nations can enjoy activities involving music and musical instruments to enrich their mind. Yamaha’s School Project delivers activities involving sounds, music, and musical instruments to children all around the world, leaving no child behind, to help them cultivate their own individuality and mutual respect and encourage them to share and empathize with others instead of experiencing this alone. Yamaha provides high-quality instrumental music education in public education, which is of key importance in each country/region, and undertakes activities to provide a sustainable business model for all stakeholders.

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.

With the corporate philosophy of “Innovate education, empower children to drive their futures” SuRaLa Net provides the adaptive interactive ICT teaching materials “Surala” and “Surala Drill” to more than 430,000 students in about 2,500 tuition schools and schools in Japan.
Starting the overseas business in 2014, we introduce our solutions to private schools and tuition schools as well as NGOs in many countries. Also, as Japanese-style education has been attracting attention in many countries around the world in recent years, we have been selected for projects by the Japanese government and international organizations, and are expanding our activities.

In July 2010, we established a local subsidiary in Taiwan to accelerate the development of our business of disseminating Japanese culture, tourism, and education. In October of the same year, the first JAPAN SAKURA BASE store opened, with plans to expand into Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Thailand by 2023.

The COIL Promotion Office of the International Education Center takes the lead in implementing a program to foster social innovators who can solve problems in local communities and societies, incorporating active learning. In addition, students from multiple countries and regions, including developing countries, are practicing collaborative learning through active learning via online. We develop teaching materials and human resource as well as design programs associated with these activities.