Company Biography

1979

Establishment of Samadhi Inc.
Establishment of the Waseda Juku (prep school).

1986

First high school and university joint program started with Dr.Haruo Nishihara, president of Waseda University

1987

Establishment of Human Design Inc.

1988

First performance of Ongakuza Musical’s “Shabondama Tonda Soramade Tonda”.

1990

Ongakuza Musical’s second work “Tottemo Ghost”, receives National Arts Festival Award from Agency for Cultural Affairs

1994

Ongakuza Musical’s “The Little Prince” receives National Arts Festival Award from Agency for Cultural Affairs for the second time.
Ongakuza Musical receives the Kinokuniya Theater Award, Group Award
Ongakuza Musical’s “I Love Bot-chan” receives the Yomiuri Theater Award, Outstanding Play Award

1995

Development of the “English Dojo” method for training the four English skills：reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Ongakuza Musical’s “Nakanaide” receives the Yomiuri Theater Award, Outstanding Play Award

1996

Initial publication of “Good Professor” to promote high school students to chose colleges and universities based on faculty’s research and department that matches with their own interests

1997

Ongakuza Musical’s “Mademoiselle Mozart” receives the Yomiuri Theater Award, Outstanding Play Award

1999

Developing new “English Dojo” in partnership with TIME Inc. (USA)

2001

Development of the “Pre-College Course” as college preparatory course for high school seniors

2006

Establishment of Admissions Office Inc.
Start developing and providing special programs for high school students in collaboration with college professors.
Start overseas programs in partnership with Harvard and MIT
Start developing and providing the “Theater Learning Workshop”, a human resource development training

2008

Start of a global leader development program for high school students in collaboration with Dr. Heizo Takenaka.

2010

Start a joint social contribution project to eradicate poverty with Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, Colombia University

2011

Start pre-MBA program for high school students in partnership with the Peter F Drucker School of Management

2013

Support Keno University’s Keio SFC System Biology Laboratory and its cutting edge research run by Dr. Maseru Tomita, president of the Institute for Advances Biosciences
Start providing “Theater Learning Workshop” to companies as a human resource development training program.

2014

Start of the “Disney Youth Programs” for high school student to develop their personal brans in collaboration with Disney World Resort in Florida, (USA).
Ongakuza Musical selected as a “Children’s Development Project through Arts” by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Waseda Juku license was transferred to the Nagase Group

2015

Partnering with ApplicationsOnline (USA) to develop an online application consortium, Universal College Application – Asia
Development of “Feelnote”, an online portfolio system
Ongakuza Musical was selected for a “Children’s Development Project through Arts” by the Agency for Cultural Affairs

2016

Feelnote was named as the official community platform for “Tobitate Ryugaku Japan” initiative by Japan’s Ministry of Education
World School, a portal website for extracurricular activities worldwide, was launched
Feelnote, an educational portfolio platform, acquired patent in Japan (Japan Patent No. 6028123 along with 8 others. Patents pending in 5 countries including the US)

2017

Japan Education Reform Council had its first meeting held by Hideki Aikawa and Prof. Heizo Takenaka to promote reformation of today’s education
“The New Admission Problems” was firstly developed as a whole new method to improve soft (non-cognitive) skills
Big-data analysis was began on Feelnote’s portfolios

2018

“The Admission Office” was introduced to admission process at Shibaura Institute of Technology
Feelnote had its renewal release
Assessment service for non-cognitive skills, PASS 25, was developed

2019

“The New Admission Problems” along with Feelnote were certified as SDGs Curriculum by Center for Sustainable Development of Columbia University and Millennium Promise
SDGs Point Project, which allow points earned on educational studies to be redeemed towards donations to achieve SDGs, started
Integration between Feelnote and World School allowing automated activity suggestion began
“The New Admission Problems” acquired patent in Japan (Japan Patent No. 6535771)

2020

AO Online Salon launched