Textbook/Material development

The Uchida Yoko Group is reforming its mid/long-term corporate management policy under its corporate vision of “creating value from data and collaborating in the design of knowledge”. Throughout our history, we have cultivated business relations with a variety of clients in both private and public sectors. We exhibit a unique business structure that is based on ICT-related businesses that account for 60% of our sales, with other 40% in environmental businesses. 　By taking advantage of our business relationships with a variety of clients and our unique business structure, furthermore utilizing know-how from long term overseas business experiences, we plan on creating a business that focuses on reforming “styles of working,”“ educational systems” and“ city development systems” to resolve the new challenges of our clients that will become apparent by the changes in the social/industrial structures that are expected to take place after 2020.

Tokyo Shoseki is Japan’s leading textbook publishing company.
We develop the general book and ICT teaching materials not only a textbook.
We also participate in mathematics textbook development in Laos country through JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency）.

Our ultimate goal is to create a society where everyone can play an active role by using technology.
We create opportunities to be an IT engineer regardless of borders, race or gender.

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.

Through the meetings with　Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam, physical education teachers training and demonstrations in schools, Mizuno aspire to introduce our proprietary developed exercise program Hexathlon to all the public elementary schools in Vietnam. Mizuno believes this will contribute to improve the physical education classes in Vietnam, of which currently lacks to provide children the opportunities to practice movements such as “running”, “jumping” or “throwing” under the limitation of time allocated to the classes. Furthermore, we aim to share the joy of exercise with the children, to decrease health problems related to being obese and to contribute to Vietnam people’s health.

Japan Consortium for Global School Health Research (JC-GSHR) was set up as a think tank and hub for international school health networks. JC-GSHR is working towards the appropriate implementation and dissemination of school health programs. We target both school-aged children and adolescents, and we aim to promote the health of the community. JC-GSHR activities include following activities: 1）Implementing school health research and practices. 2）Providing technical support for practices and provide human resource training on school health. 3）Cultivating young researchers and technical experts through a network of research members. 4）Publicizing and disseminating information on the results of our research and school health projects. and 5）Strengthening international partnerships

– Thailand University Student Business Human Resource Development Support Project
– Job Hunting Activity Support Project
– Industry-University Cooperation Support Project

Publisher for teacher’s skill up books and educational software. Main product is a software for mathematics (IM) in primary school lesson. Proceeding a 3-years project with JICA since 2018 to evaluate ICT lesson with IM in primary school in Rwanda. Achieved score up at 52 points after only 2 days training for teachers and a week lesson in classroom. Studying biz opportunity not only in East Africa but also in West Africa. Ready to start collaborating study with ACEITLMS, academic institute in University of Rwanda. IM has English and French version, applicable local language (option).

Our company is based in Da Nang, Vietnam, and develop educational business. We have the slogan “To find self wings”, we aim to foster entrepreneurship, independence to nurture children who can play an active role in the international community through “SELFWING V-KIDS Kindergarten” and “SELFWING V-GARDEN”.

As one of the biggest Japanese companies to import and export books and other educational materials founded in 1869, we recently provide e-book and e-textbook platforms respectively both for educational institutions (libraries) as well as teachers, students and other individuals.
Publishers can provide libraries and/ or students with e-books and e-textbooks via our online platforms. Also teachers can upload their original materials on our platform for educational use.
We also support digitization of publications, production of educational materials (including copyright clearance etc.).
Other business activities include general exporting and importing of books and educational materials as well as supporting the networking of global educational/research institutions and individuals.

Since our establishment as an education business in 1985, the Human Group has expanded our education business, childcare business, nursing care business and recruitment business, etc. centered on “HUMAN”.
We provide opportunities to have a self-fulfillment by making use of what they have learned, based on the group’s management philosophy, “to contribute to society through our hard work”.
We have 330 domestic business bases and 7 overseas ones. In Asia, we operate a Japanese language education business and a nursery school business. We mainly develop specialized education business in Europe and English education business in North America.

We provide programing education services for children all over the world and in Japan. Learning starts from pre-school children to understand basic programming structure by using card-based programming language called “Prograbook Start-up Package” instead of using computers. Then, we offer programming education based on visual and text language material and “game development and digital music production”. This education system is under PCT international patent-pending and we plan to provide online classes for children outside Japan in the near future.

We have been studying AI and education for about 20 years. You can freely define your thoughts (rules) and knowledge (facts, etc.) in free sentences including foreign languages, and can let your PC think accordingly. We would like to spread such programming overseas. We hope that morally superior concepts in various languages will be laid out in a variety of familiar scenes and will be proposed as more useful hypotheses for other cultures.

Yakuzemi Informative Education Center Co., Ltd. is a member of MIZUHO Group, which is engaged in medical, educational, and welfare field. MIZUHO Group has educational facilities such as Yakugaku Seminar, a prep school for the national pharmacist examination, and a professional training college for physiotherapists. Recently, we have experiences in conducting the following projects overseas;
・JICA SDGs Business Model Formulation Survey on pharmaceutical education in Kyrgyzstan in 2019
・Feasibility study for the construction of the Kyrgyzstan IFC rehabilitation hospital in 2019
・Study tour on promoting proper drug use in Kyrgyzstan in 2019
・Project for the global growth of medical technologies, systems, and services in pharmaceutical education started in 2020 in Vietnam.

OISCA Kindergarten offers Japanese-style Early Childhood Education and Care in Japanese in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Manila, Bangkok, Sriracha and Jakarta.　The Philosophy 　of Japanese-style Early Childhood Education and Care at OISCA Kindergarten has been adopted by the Shanghai Board of Education, and OISCA Kindergartens in each region train local staff through OJT. We are also aiming to contribute to local education by disseminating Japanese-style Early Childhood Education and Care and collaborating with researchers in Japan and overseas.