Japan’s economic environment has been transformed by a range of factors including economic globalization and sluggish potential growth rates triggered by an aging workforce.
In this changing economic framework, it is imminent for Japan to revitalize its business activities and to regain its economic dynamism.
In order to help these efforts, I asked myself what I could do as a businessperson with long experience in the education industry, and I realized that entrepreneurial education was my mission.
Having supported entrepreneurs in recent years, however, I noticed that the entrepreneurial environment was yet to be established in Japan and felt that there was a need to promote social understanding while providing entrepreneurship education that offered business opportunities to young people.
In response to such societal needs, the Graduate Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies was established. I believe that, as many aspiring entrepreneurs begin to realize their entrepreneurial dreams and lead fulfilling lives, entrepreneurship will become a career option just as popular as a corporate job, if not more so. Such a climate must take root in Japan.
Our institution offers not only scholarship assistance, but also financial assistance from our special fund to business starters with an excellent and feasible business plan in order to provide them with real entrepreneurial opportunities.
It is my sincere hope that, as individual or corporate entrepreneurs, our graduates will contribute to the development of Japanese economy through business creation