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.

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.

A Japanese electronics manufacturer that handles watches, calculators, electronic dictionaries, etc. In the field of education, we have been expanding GAKUHAN activities using scientific calculators all over the world for 50 years. Scientific calculators, which have been developed and improved with teachers in each country, are used in classes as a tool to acquire mathematical thinking at Japan and abroad. Through educational support of these business activities, we are making efforts to nurture the next generation who will be responsible for the future development of society.
※GAKUHAN：Activities to support teachers and students to realize better mathematics education.

Kumon provides a learning method in 57 countries and regions around the world that enables anyone, regardless of age, to acquire the basic academic skills of reading, writing, and calculation, which are the foundation of education, through self-study based on individual ability. Our goal is to nurture the basic academic skills that form the foundation of learning, and as the effectiveness of our learning method has been recognized, it has been accepted as a part of education in countries and regions with different cultures, customs, values, and educational systems.

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.

Nagoya Sangyo University signed an academic exchange agreement with Nanjing Tech University in China in 2001, the second year of its opening, and started international exchange. In addition, the overseas expansion of CO₂ environmental education by Nagoya Sangyo University can be traced back to 2013, when a partnership agreement was signed with Taiwan’s Yu Da University and Miaoli County Environmental Protection Bureau. From 2019, we are working to popularize CO₂ environmental education in Taiwan in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan and National Taiwan University.

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.

PIA Global Co., Ltd. established Asahi Global Education, in Hanoi Vietnam this year. Started operation of Asahi Children’s Garden in Hanoi to popularize and practice Japanese-style early child food education.

We provide learning for all generations, from infants to adults, with books, educational toys, digital learning materials and other content to help them live and learn in ways that suit their homes, communities, schools, cram schools and other settings.
In terms of overseas development, we operate educational services, publishing and medical welfare businesses from a base of 20 offices, mainly in Southeast Asia.
In developing countries, we provide official development assistance, support for the overseas expansion of private companies and assistance for social entrepreneurs.

IC Net Limited is an international development consulting firm that implements ODA projects mainly in developing countries. Over the last 30 years, we have implemented projects in more than 150 countries and are leading company in software fields such as education, health care and rural development. Currently, in addition to ODA projects, we provide the service of overseas expansion support for private companies and new global businesses. Since 2019, we have joined the Gakken Holdings Co., Ltd., so we are also committed to Gakken’s overseas expansion.

The company has a history of more than 70 years publishing mathematics, science, and English textbooks for elementary to high school students. The company also has overseas operations in the Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, and other countries.

SPRIX is a comprehensive educational company that develops cram schools and educational content.
In addition to developing cram schools nationwide such as “Mori Juku”, which is the largest tutoring school in Japan with an average number of students per classroom, and “Independent Learning RED”, there are also multiple learning content teaching materials with the top share. We are developing and publishing.
The “Test Of Fundamental Academic Skills TOFAS” developed by SPRIX has a cumulative total of more than 100,000 examinees in 20 countries worldwide, and can evaluate basic academic ability based on international standards.

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.

SHIN EDUPOWER PVT. LTD. is an education company from Japan that has been developing and providing various unique and innovative educational programs for schools in India. Our “Shin Program” is a Japanese-style experiential holistic group learning program that can improve both academic skills and non-cognitive abilities of children. It has been successfully implemented into numerous schools in India, and receiving fantastic feedback from not only teachers and students, but principals and parents too. Our vision is “Holistic Learning for All Children- Teachers enjoy. That’s why students enjoy more!”. We aim to provide quality education to children all over the world.

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.

KEI Advanced, Inc. (KEI) is the company within the Kawaijuku Group that exports the Group’s educational assets to overseas and provides public relation’s service and BPO related to entrance examinations, and various consulting services mainly for higher education in Japan. As for overseas deployment, KEI is currently delivering the Japanese-style academic achievement test (mathematics) in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, as part of a JICA project (as of January 2023).