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Education, Language and Career Development

  • Company Name: The American School in Japan
    Address: 1-1-1 Nomizu, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-0031
    Contact: Mary Margaret Mallat, Director of Admissions; Judy Beneventi, Director of the Early
    Learning Center
    Telephone: 0422-345300
    Email: enroll@asij.ac.jp
    Website: http://community.asij.ac.jp

    ASIJ is a dynamic school, eager to provide a positive and innovative learning environment that, upon matriculation, will ultimately prepare our students for successful on-going learning in universities and in future professional and personal pursuits. From pre-school through grade 12, our mission guides us. “Developing compassionate, inquisitive learners prepared for global responsibility” is the ideal that we strive to uphold each day. ASIJ’s Student Learning Outcomes provide further articulation of our mission as practiced in the classroom and in co-curricular activities.

    Program / Curriculum

    Classes are conducted in English, following a curriculum largely drawn from the United States. Our Japanese host culture enriches our school and provides opportunities for learning, both in language classes and through academic and experiential learning opportunities. Likewise, the many cultures and nationalities that make up ASIJ provide chances to broaden and deepen our appreciation of the world in which we live.

  • Company Name: The British School in Tokyo
    Address: 1-21-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku,
    Tokyo 150-0002
    Contact: Nancy Jenkins
    Telephone: 03-6418-5777 (ext 217)
    Email: marketing@bst.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.bst.ac.jp

    Established in 1989, The British School in Tokyo (BST) provides a top quality education in central Tokyo for 650 international pupils aged 3-18.

    BST is unique in Japan for providing an education following the English National Curriculum from Nursery to A Levels and preparing pupils for entry to universities worldwide.

    A recent independent inspection confirmed BST as “excellent”, the highest mark possible, in all eight areas. Described as a dynamic, creative environment the inspectors highlighted that the overall achievement of the pupils is excellent and BST staff show true commitment to ensuring the welfare, health and safety of pupils.

    With a full range of extracurricular activities and an outstanding sports programme, we pride ourselves on our pupils being well-rounded individuals, fully equipped for the challenges of the future.

    Program / Curriculum

    • Co-educational
    • Ages 3-18
    • 650 students of 50 nationalities
    • Central Tokyo location
    • Full sports programme
    • Outstanding academic results

  • Company Name: Dale Carnegie Training Japan KK
    Address: Akasaka 2-chome Annex #501, Akasaka 2-19-8,
    Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0052
    Contact: Dr. Greg Story
    Telephone: 03-4520-5470
    Email: Greg.Story@dalecarnegie.com
    Website: http://www.japan.dalecarnegie.com

    Know the Book? You Will Love the Course!
    Dale Carnegie pioneered corporate training. Businesses in 86 countries benefit from his breakthrough ideas, including 90% of the Fortune 500 companies. “How to Win Friends and Influence People” has become a timeless classic and consistent worldwide best seller. The reason is simple – people’s interactions are make or break points in business. Whether it is getting a team behind the leader’s goals, gaining cooperation within a team, or making the sale, the human dimension is the critical factor.

    Continuous client feedback and constant refinement over the last 100 years, has made Dale Carnegie Training the choice for business solutions and organizational change.

    Dale Carnegie Training have been assisting companies in Japan, in English and Japanese, for the last 49 years, standing the test of time and relevance. If you seek real and measurable people results, one call to us in Tokyo will do it.

    Program / Curriculum

    • Team Member Engagement
    • Customer Service
    • Sales Effectiveness
    • Persuasion Power
    • Human Relations Effectiveness
    • Leadership Development
    • Process Improvement
    • Presentation Effectiveness
    • Stress Management

  • Company Name: Globalinx Corp.
    Address: Nomura No1 Bldg. 5F, 2-23 Kandasuda-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0041 Japan
    Contact: Philip Deane
    Telephone: 03-5297-8243
    Email: pd@globalinx.co.jp
    Website: http://www.globalinx.co.jp

    Established in 1968, Globalinx Corp. provides consulting, training, coaching and e-learning services to a wide range of industries and government agencies.

    Our mission is to improve and develop the capabilities of organizations operating globally. Our training programs develop the true potential of individuals, enhancing their ability to work in multicultural teams, manage global projects, and successfully communicate and implement global business strategies.

    Our services include pre-training consulting, participant selection, customized and localized program development, seminar facilitation in English, Japanese and Chinese, follow-up reviews and interviews, and extensive post-course reviews with HR.

    Program / Curriculum

    Consulting:
    Global readiness, organizational transformation, overseas communication, etc.
    Training:
    Leadership, workplace management, project management, business and knowledge management, business communication, global mind and skills
    Coaching:
    One-on-one and team coaching programs.
    E-Learning:
    Wide variety of language and business programs

  • Company Name: Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS)
    Address: National Center of Sciences
    2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
    Tokyo 101-8439
    Contact: Prof. Christina Ahmadjian, Dean
    Telephone: 03-4212-3006
    Email: ics-info@ics.hit-u.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.ics.hit-u.ac.jp

    At Hitotsubashi ICS, you join a select, impressive and diversified group of students and encounter an MBA curriculum with the Best of Two Worlds.

    You study the essential MBA subjects, and experience—through coursework, meetings with top executives, internships, and field studies—how Japanese firms create knowledge, innovate, and manage quality, and how corporate goals and social purpose differ globally. In the Global Citizenship courses, you learn about meeting the needs of others. During Knowledge Week, you look inward to understand your values and relate your career to your life’s purpose. Through teamwork activities you learn to manage differences in culture, work practices, expectations, and incentives for greater synergy.

    Our student-to-faculty ratio of 3:1 enables direct interaction through our seminar system, independent studies, and social and academic activities. Our partnerships with top universities internationally offer opportunities for student exchanges, cutting-edge research and a double degree.

    Program / Curriculum

    • 1-year full-time MBA
    • 2-year full-time MBA
    • DBA (Doctor of Business Administration)

  • Company Name: McGill MBA Japan Program
    Address: Hilton Tokyo, Room 2001, 6-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 6-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023
    Contact: Philip O’Neill, Director
    Telephone: 03-3342-3430
    Email: Philip.oneill@mcgill.ca
    Website: http://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/mbajapan

    The McGill MBA Japan Program is the leading MBA in Japan. It is offered on weekends in Nishi-Shinjuku by professors who fly in from the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

    Program / Curriculum

    Our program is a full MBA which is offered in English. The first year features our innovative Integrated Core program and the second year has an Integrative Curriculum which develops financially literate, entrepreneurial leaders.

  • Company Name: New International School of Japan
    Address: 3-18-32 Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku,
    Tokyo 172-0012
    Contact: Steven Parr, Director/Head of School
    Telephone: 03-3980-1057
    Email: info@newis.ed.jp
    Website: http://newis.ed.jp

    New International School (NewIS) accommodates children aged from three to those in Grade 9. Pupils become academically and communicatively proficient in both English and Japanese, with Mandarin offered as an elective.

    We have a multiage, child-centered, highly interactive Vygotskian approach to education, where pupils develop social as well as academic skills. NewIS has more than 30 staff, about 130 children, spacious classrooms with interactive whiteboards and computers, and a 23,000-volume library. NewIS is an accredited non-profit school foundation and a member of the Council of International Schools, Japan Council of International Schools, Tokyo Association of International Preschools, and the Corporate Contribution Plan Association.

    Program / Curriculum

    • Scottish curriculum, implemented thematically and bilingually, with developmental continuums related to language acquisition, reading and writing.
    • Pupils learn to play the violin by ear from age six.
    • Optional Saturday and Summer programs in English, Japanese, and Mandarin for pupils and non-pupils.

  • Company Name: Nishimachi International School
    Address: 2-14-7 Moto Azabu
    Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0046
    Contact: Mariko Laabs, Director of Admissions
    Telephone: 03-3451-5520
    Email: admissions@nishimachi.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.nishimachi.ac.jp/

    Conveniently located in central Tokyo, Nishimachi International School is a co-educational, nonsectarian K–9 offering a vibrant education in English and Japanese to children from all over the globe. For more than six decades, students have left Nishimachi well equipped to meet the challenges of higher education, careers, and a fast-moving world.

    Nishimachi’s mission is to educate students to be international and independent thinkers. The school is committed to developing in every child strong language and communication skills, an analytical and inquiring mind, cross-cultural sensitivity, creativity, flexibility, and the ability to work well in groups.

    Program / Curriculum

    The school features a unique international curriculum. The main language of instruction is English, although every student has one period of Japanese daily, covering language, culture, and history, which deepens and enriches the international experience. The rigorous academic curriculum is complemented by programs in music, physical education, sports, art, drama and community service.

  • Company Name: Rikkyo University
    Address: 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku,
    Tokyo, Japan 171-8501
    Contact: Professor Nobuya Takezawa
    Telephone: 03-3985-4288
    Email: mib@rikkyo.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/mib/

    Founded in 1874, Rikkyo University is one of Japan’s oldest universities and its College of Business (COB) is a center of innovation in management education. Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has awarded “Good Practice Grants” to three COB core educational programs and the college has been a top-ten business school in the Weekly Toyo Keizai’s national rankings for the past three years.

    COB’s curriculum develops leadership and teamwork skills in a coordinated and intense learning environment. Eighty percent of business courses in our Department of Global Business are in English and students participate in exchange programs with more than 50 universities worldwide.

    Our Master of International Business graduate program in English features extensive project-based learning and integrated team-taught course modules.

    Program / Curriculum

    • BA, Department of Global Business
    • BA, Department of Business
    • Master of International Business (all English)
    • Master of Business
    • Doctoral Program Business

  • Company Name: International School of the Sacred Heart
    Address: 4-3-1 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0012
    Contact: Yvonne Hayes, Headmistress
    Telephone: 03-3400-3951
    Email: info@issh.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.issh.ac.jp

    The International School of the Sacred Heart (ISSH) is a Catholic school that welcomes all faiths and is located in the heart of Tokyo. The kindergarten is co-ed and grades 1 to 12 are for girls. We take pride in providing a strong academic curriculum while emphasizing the importance of developing the whole person by offering opportunities to take part in music, art, sports and social services. With the high quality of education, the girls leave school with leadership skills, confidence and compassion to become responsible citizens with much to contribute to society.

    The new kindergarten/junior school building, kindergarten playground and gym opened in January 2012.

    ISSH is accredited by WASC and CIS, and is a member of the worldwide Network of Sacred Heart Schools and the Society of the Sacred Heart.

    Program / Curriculum

    • International primary curriculum
    • Advanced placement program
    • ESL program
    • Values program

  • Company Name: St. Mary’s International School
    Address: 1-6-19 Seta, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8668
    Contact: Admissions
    Telephone: 03-3709-3411
    Email: admissions@smis.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.smis.ac.jp/

    St. Mary’s is a boys’ school founded in 1954 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. About 850 boys from more than 50 countries, ranging from pre-1st to grade 12, study on a nine-acre site in the green residential area of Setagaya-ku.

    We offer a challenging array of core curricular and extracurricular programmes to meet the educational and developmental needs of young men. Our programmes are taught at different levels to the changing needs of the students, and focus on their learning characteristics.

    The new school building, completed in March 2011, includes classroom/administration, pool/cafeteria, gym/fine arts, and artificial-turf athletic field.

    Program / Curriculum

    • US college-preparatory programme and I.B.
    • Core programme plus art, music, PE, swimming Japanese and other languages
    • English as a Second Language programme
    • College guidance
    • Extensive school bus service
    • Extra-curricular activities, clubs and sports
    • Ski programme, grades 4 to 6

  • Company Name: Yokohama International School
    Address: 258 Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, 231 0862
    Contact: Susan Chen,
    Admissions & Student Affairs Manager
    Telephone: 045-622-0084
    Email: admissions@yis.ac.jp
    Website: http://www.yis.ac.jp/

    Founded in 1924 as a pioneer in international education, Yokohama International School (YIS) remains committed to providing the highest quality, balanced education to internationally minded students aged three to 18 in an inquiring, supportive and exciting learning environment. Only 35 minutes by train from central Tokyo, YIS is an independent, not-for-profit school fully accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

    Program / Curriculum

    We pride ourselves on our close sense of community, wide range of extracurricular and outreach activities, and our strong academic programs, which reflect the best practices in international education. In our Early Learning Center and elementary school, we offer the IB Primary Years Program and Reggio Emilia Approach. The IB Middle Years Program is being phased in across grades 6 to 10, and the academically challenging and balanced IB Diploma Program prepares students in grades 11 to 12 for success at university and life beyond.

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