Professor Yunus’s Social Business, a manga depicting the life and work of Professor Muhammad Yunus, has been completed and is now available at Tsuchiya Book Store, a support company within the Jikei Group of Colleges. Professor Yunus has helped impoverished women in his home country of Bangladesh achieve financial and personal independence through small loans known as microcredit and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.   Professor Yunus’s Social Business has been produced through a collaborative effort between the Jikei Group of Colleges and the Yunus & Shiiki Social Business Research Center at Kyushu University. The goal of … Continue reading →

“We are TCA 2015,” the graduation and year-end project exhibition for Tokyo Communication Arts College students, was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture on Friday, February 6 and Saturday, February 7. Nearly 1,900 people came to see the student exhibits over the two days of the exhibition.   Since the very beginning Tokyo Communication Arts College has been training the professionals industry needs for the workplace through a unique curriculum created in collaboration with corporations and other organizations. The foundation for this collaborative curriculum is firmly based on cooperative education with industry focusing on corporate projects. These corporate projects … Continue reading →

The dedication ceremony for the new Osaka College of Culinary Arts campus was held in Osaka on August 28 and was attended by Chairperson Kunihiko Ukifune together along with honored guests and representatives from the school and from the companies involved in the construction. Osaka College of Culinary Arts will move to its new location in April of next year and will change from a general corporation to a school corporation pending accreditation. The morning began with rain, which soon abated with the start of the ceremony. By about halfway into the event, summer skies had returned, and the day … Continue reading →

This spring the Jikei Group of Colleges launched the Restart program at the National Examination Preparation Center for Jikei graduates preparing to take national examinations. These summer session national examination preparation classes were opened for the first time at 5 locations across the country with the base of operations centered in Osaka.   The Jikei Group of Colleges believes that each and every student is important and strives to put that philosophy into practice. Accordingly, the Jikei Group has established the Restart Program as part of its efforts to provide systematic support to Jikei graduates getting ready to take national … Continue reading →

Dental Technician Students Achieve 100% Pass Rate for 23rd Straight Year. The National Examination Preparation Center for the Jikei Group of Colleges has finished compiling the national examination results for the 2013 academic year. The total number of students sitting national examinations exceeded 5000 students for the entire group, and the number of departments with a 100% pass rate increased by 10 departments at 4 schools to reach a total of 41 departments at 24 schools. Moreover, Toyo Medical College Dental Technician Department students obtained a 100% success rate for the 23rd straight year, an achievement unparalleled throughout Japan.   … Continue reading →

The International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) held the first annual Global Educators Meeting (GEM) from June 25 to 27 in the city of Kobe, with the Kobe College of Medical Welfare acting as the official receiving institution for the event. According to the ISPO, the goal of GEM was “to strengthen and deepen the P&O professions globally, through improved P&O education, with increased cooperation between P&O schools.” The primary venue for the 3-day event was the Nichii Gakkan Kobe Port Island Center, and the secondary venue was the Kobe College of Medical Welfare.   The conference sought to … Continue reading →

The English version of the Jikei Group of Colleges Global Website has been completely redesigned. The Jikei Global Website will deliver information on Jikei Group activities in a timely manner.

Fudan University Student Xu Jihai smiles after winning the Grand Prize in the Recitation Category and receiving her award from Jikei Group Chairman Kunihiko Ukifune and Mr.Wang.   As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, Jikei Shanghai Center held the 1st Annual Japanese Recitation-Voice Over Contest. The winners were presented with their awards at the official 10th Anniversary Ceremony which took place at the Pullman Shanghai Skyway Hotel on December 23.   Jikei Shanghai Center was established as a subsidiary of Jikei Inc. in 2002 and began as Han Yuan Mandarin School, teaching Chinese to staff from Japanese companies posted … Continue reading →

Jikei Science Club 20th Anniversary Ceremony. Kunihiko Ukifune, Jikei Group Chairperson, participates in science experiment on stage.   The Jikei Science Club, a science laboratory for children, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Sun Plaza in Tokyo Ueno Plaza on November 21. The celebrations included a formal ceremony and a get-together afterward.   The Jikei Science Club had its start 20 years ago in 1992, in a laboratory in the then Life Engineering Department of the Nihon College of Health Care Services in Koenji, in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward. The club began with 80 students and has since welcomed over 10,000 … Continue reading →

Educational Exchange Symposium welcoming Hanyang Cyber University delegation led by Dr. Yeonwook Im (At Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Jikei Institute, in Shin Osaka)   An international cooperation delegation from Hanyang Cyber University in Seoul, South Korea led by Dr. Yeonwook Im was in Japan from November 26-28 to participate in an international exchange forum with Jikei Group of Colleges faculty. The delegation also toured schools and strengthened educational exchange between the two organizations.   Now in its 10th year, the 4-year university’s eLearning department offers programs in computer engineering, humanities, education, and sociology-related fields, economics, and design-related fields. … Continue reading →