Company

1To work together in order to build a better future that continues to solve global social issues
2To create an environment that fosters international exchange regardless of economic disparities
3To encourage individuals to find their lifelong passion and continue striving for it
4To educate and nurture open-minded individuals that are able to accept others despite cultural and perspective differences.
There are people in the world who are suffering from social issues related to education, poverty, and more.
However, we hardly have opportunities to discuss and understand the social issues that are happening around us.
We would like to connect schools around the world and discuss the social issues with schools and adults from different
communities through online communication.
Our goal is to eliminate social issues step by step while simultaneously creating meaningful discussions around the world.

One day, when I was a college student, I saw an advertisement on the train complaining about poverty. Growing up in a safe Japan, the information was shocking, so I went to Southeast Asia as a tennis coach by soliciting tennis equipment on SNS to actually check it with my own eyes.
While traveling around the country for about five months, the raw information that you feel with your own eyes and see the actual situation with the local people is a lifetime asset, and there is a different learning from the information that can be learned from the textbook. I also noticed that.
The world is still facing various social problems,
The brunt of its impact is on us and our next generation.
In a world where "problem-solving ability" is indispensable to solve problems in the future, we will independently learn what kind of problems are occurring in Japan and overseas, and what kind of actions are required. We started this program because we thought that if we could take the opportunity into educational institutions, many young people would be able to feel close to social issues.
"What can we do?"
In order to have a better day tomorrow than today, we will continue to work hard until the day when we can create an environment where we can deepen discussions with students of the same generation in different countries in classes at schools around the world.
I hope that one day it will lead to the production of young leaders who can build a strong cooperation system between countries and to help as many young people as possible to work on solving social problems.
With The World CEOShunta Igarashi
Experienced sales and XNUMX new business developments in a human resources company since XNUMX
[New business development ] 2 restaurants・sporting event(50,000 customers)、music concert(700 customers)、working holiday program in Hyogo-ken, start-up of overseas think tank division)
During his university years, he was a member of the university's tennis club, spending most of his time on the tennis court. After retiring from club activities, he was inspired by a Japanese person who was involved in educational activities on a TV program he was broadcasting, and visited the Philippines to hear his story. As a private tennis coach, he solicited donations of approximately 100 rackets and other necessary equipment through social media, and taught approximately 120 children etiquette and other skills. While he discovered that children who could not attend school had good memories and a strong desire to learn, he also discovered that many local children were unaware of the conditions in slums. After graduating from university, he joined a major human resources company and participated in the launch of six new businesses. He then founded With The World Co., Ltd., a company developing a platform service (patent pending) that allows schools around the world to discuss and learn about a single social theme, regardless of location, distance, or religion, in order to provide opportunities to learn about the current global situation and reexamine social issues in their own countries and regions. Currently, he leverages connections with over 500 schools in 67 countries around the world to connect Japanese and overseas educational institutions (elementary, junior high, high school, university, etc.) and provide classes.
International Exchange Consultant Department kousei
International Exchange Consultant Department Kazuma
Educational Design Department Shodai
Educational Design Department/
Marketing/Public Relations Department
Yuka
Overseas Business Department Akari
International Consultant Department Ayumi
Educational Design Department Asami
Overseas Business Department Thanittaya
Educational Design Department Kumiko
Teaching assistantHaruka
Teaching assistantKyouka
〈Domestic university〉
Ochanomizu University ・Kwansei Gakuin University ・Waseda University ・Keio University ・International Christian University
・Sophia University ・Tokyo Gakugei University ・Doshisha University ・Ritsumeikan University, etc.
〈Foreign Universities〉
Roger Williams University, Pennsylvania State University, University of London, University of Toronto, etc.

Leaning Design / FacilitatorJanice

Leaning Design / Facilitatormary

Leaning Design / FacilitatorMoon

Leaning Design / FacilitatorRina

Leaning Design / FacilitatorZahra

CEO Yukie Kobayashi

CEO Shunsuke Suzuki

CEO Emiko Mori

CEO Kaho Watanabe
Representative Director Takayuki Nakano

Representative Sakurako Mutare Aoki
Philippine Department of Tourism
United Nations Unitar Association
*Support for global joint presentation
When I was a university student, getting inspired by one of the Japanese activists working on education and by the advertisement on the train, I visited the Philippines to see the activist. In order to see the activist, I moved around many places in the Philippines and taught tennis and manners to approximately 100 local children as a private tennis coach. By using SNS, I had collected pieces of tennis equipment, including 120 tennis rackets. Through this charity activity, I realized the issue of a lack of education there, but at the same time, I found the children’s potentiality and motivation for learning. Currently, while I am working to solve this educational issue, I am also creating opportunities for youth to learn about social phenomena. As the first step, I came up with this project and started With The World in 2018 to carry out my project between Indonesia and Japan.
Born in Fukuoka prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Saga University.
Obtained teaching license (industrial) while attending school. After working at a foreign trading company and a human resources venture company, he joined With The World Co., Ltd. As Japan faces a labor shortage due to its declining birthrate and aging population, opportunities to work with foreigners will increase in the future. As the domestic environment becomes more global, Japanese society is in need of people who can communicate smoothly. In order to solve this problem, I would like to spread online international exchange. We provide opportunities to make friends with students from all over the world, learn about various values and cultures, and support you in broadening your horizons.
Born in Nagano Prefecture. After he studied abroad in Australia, he became interested in the world's cultures and tourist destinations, and after working for a travel agency and then as a freelancer, he joined With The World Co., Ltd.
I have traveled to many countries and deepened my cross-cultural exchanges, and have made many discoveries and experiences there. We will work to create a world where people around the world are connected to each other, transcending race and culture.
While a university student, she worked as a volunteer guide for foreign visitors to Japan in Kyoto. Although we only met once for a few hours, we not only shared Japanese culture, but also had the fun of learning about a country and culture that we had never known before, and even though our languages and cultures were different, we enjoyed the beautiful scenery together. It was a great joy to be able to laugh with each other. After graduating from university, he worked at a domestic hotel owned by a foreign hotel chain. She gained experience working as a concierge and front desk, learned about global standard hospitality, and provided services. After joining With The World, she will be responsible for planning and managing international exchange programs, as well as developing and promoting schools participating in the program overseas. The With The World program not only broadens my horizons and values, but I also feel that it is an opportunity for me to face my home country and myself anew through interaction with people of my generation living overseas. We connect schools around the world and provide learning opportunities to many children.
Domestic/overseas itinerary manager (tour conductor) qualification holder. Responsible for planning, administration, and facilitation of PBL-type programs and cross-cultural leadership training for middle school, high school, and university students. Prior to joining With The World, she was involved in web service and media management that connects Japan and overseas, and also taught at a major English conversation school. She also volunteers as a facilitator for nature classes for elementary and middle school students and for cross-cultural education organizations in Hong Kong. She is a member of the Japan Society for Educational Technology. From online learning to offline learning, including overseas training, we provide learning that improves abilities according to each student's situation!
Birthplace: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture Currently working in Tokyo
When she was in the fourth grade of elementary school, she became interested in English and foreign countries after meeting an American woman. During her college years, she studied abroad at an American university, which was her dream. After graduating from university, she taught at a public junior high school as an English teacher and a Japanese teacher, and is currently working in the educational design department of With The World.
While working at a junior high school, I felt that I wanted to create opportunities for my students to get first-hand information from people overseas, and when I was a Japanese language teacher, I felt that it was interesting to see the difference between the ``normal'' and ``natural'' international students unfolding right in front of my eyes. The connection led to the present day.
After graduating from university, he worked as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer at a public elementary school in Zambia, Africa. His conventional wisdom was overturned, and he felt a great sense of fulfillment in his days filled with joy, anger, and sadness. After that, he became involved in alternative education in Japan and a public elementary school in New Zealand, with the keyword "diversity", and encountered various ways of thinking. He also taught at a public elementary school in Japan and was drawn to the appeal of education. After experiencing this, I realized that ``ideas that click, ideas that click, and encountering various values enrich people's lives.''Through online, I have taught many people about the breadth of the world. I am active because I want people to find joy and find a place to belong.
I always dreamed of myself traveling the world. After graduating from junior college, he attended a travel industry vocational school, studied abroad in Australia for a short period of time, obtained qualifications in geography, English, etc., including domestic and general travel business management, and got a job at a major travel agency.
While helping many people go abroad, he has also visited many countries and regions himself. I learned the joy of interacting with local people and the importance and wonder of experiencing different cultures.
Even after leaving his job at a travel agency, he joined With The World because he wanted the next generation of students to see the world and have as many experiences as possible.
I hope I can help create a wonderful learning opportunity.
During my homestay experience in Canada during my junior high school years, I became interested in lifestyles, cultures and languages different from those in Japan, and wanted to connect with people from around the world. I majored in English at university, and after graduating, I traveled abroad on my own to meet and interact with people from various countries.
While studying abroad, I learned how to teach English to children, and after returning to Japan, I taught English to children at an English conversation school.
I want children to not only study in their textbooks, but also to look at the world more! I joined With The World because I wanted to provide such a learning environment. I want them to connect with the world through intercultural exchange and feel lots of excitement.
Originally from Thailand, I studied at a high school in Japan from 2008, and majored in cross-cultural management at university and graduate school.
I studied issues related to intercultural understanding and international integration, and after graduating I worked for seven years in a government agency in my native Thailand, where I provided trade support to many companies.
Even after retiring, she wants to continue working in a job that supports others, and she would like to share with others the charm and learnings she felt during her time living abroad.
Currently, through our With The World activities, we are bringing the joy of international exchange to children all over the world.
During my student days, I volunteered at a facility in Ukraine and Russia that supported orphans and families affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. I was able to see the smiles of many children there, which sparked my interest in children's education.
After graduating, she worked at a children's English conversation school and an international school for around 17 years, where she came to realise the power and importance of education while working with children from diverse backgrounds.
Even today, there are many children in the world who need an education. We work every day to help these children experience the joy and pleasure of learning, and to provide an education that will develop the "power to live" that will allow them to live life independently.
After studying abroad in the UK during university, she became interested in intercultural exchange and sociolinguistics. She went on to graduate school to further her studies, and then worked as an English teacher at a junior and senior high school for 16 years.
Although he felt that teaching was his calling, he made a big decision to quit his job and study abroad in Germany for six months in order to pursue a new dream.
While attending language school, I observed classes at a local elementary school and volunteered at a Japanese language school, which led me to feel strongly that education should be equal.
Through these experiences and encounters with people, he came to believe that "if people are exposed to different cultures from an early age, we can create a world where accepting each other's differences and respecting others is the norm," and so he joined With The World.
He conducts research every day and is involved in developing programs with the aim of providing lessons that help children experience the joy of communicating in English and the excitement of intercultural exchange.
During university, I studied abroad in Australia, where I experienced a multicultural environment that greatly broadened my values.
After graduating from university, she worked in sales in the real estate industry, hoping to work in a position that would help people's lives. After getting married, she switched to the education industry, and worked as an English teacher in various locations following her husband's job transfers.
Having experienced regional differences while working as a teacher, she joined With The World with the desire to create a society where children can have opportunities for international exchange regardless of where they live, and to have them experience many rich encounters.
To achieve this goal, we are working on activities to support exchanges.
〒650-0035 Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Chuo-ku, Naniwa-cho 56 Startup Plaza Hyogo
TEL: 078-600-2294
Educational program advisor : Takao Yamamoto (Vice Principal of Nitobe Bunka Gakuen Elementary, Junior, and Senior High School ): Book Oshienai Jugyo
Shingo Higashi (President, Social Business Bank)
Takuto Kudo (Lawer, CEO of CAST LAW VIETNAM CO., LTD. )
Yusuke Kaburagi (CPA, CEO of I-Global. CO., LTD)
History of adoption
・Hyogo Young Entrepreneur Support (2019)
・Kobe Social Business Promotion Subsidy (2019)Lawer
・ Post-Corona Startup Support Grant 2020 Adopted Grand Prize (2020)
・2025 World Expo, Japan (EXPO 2025 Osaka/Kansai Expo) Osaka-originated! Exciting future lifestyles
~ Aiming to be the most interesting city in the world ~ Exhibit
・Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Next Generation EdTech Innovator Support Program (Edvation Open Lab: EOL) 2023"
・Adoption of the EDU-Port Japan initiative to promote Japanese education overseas (2025)
Business Contest Experience
・A finalist of Social Business Category of the 4th Annual Japan Entrepreneur Award in XNUMX
・A finalist of XNUMXnd Nikkei Social Business Contest Finalist Election
・A finalist of Hyogo Creative Entrepreneur Contest Competition 2018.
・A finalist of ICC KYOTO 2019 Startup
・ Youth: Co Lab Social Innovation Challenge Japan Tournament XNUMX Award Scalability Award & CVC Award W Award (XNUMX)
・Kansai NBC New Business Award 2021 Grand Prix Winner
・ Ikeda Senshu Bank Received the 22nd New Business Grant 2022 Grand Prize
・Selected company for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Next Generation EdTech Innovator Support Program (Edvation Open Lab: EOL) 2023
・Grand Prize in the Well-being category of the "Industry-Up Business Contest 2024," Japan's largest new industry co-creation event
・Grand Prize: Global EdTech Startup Awards
・Grand Prize, CVC Prize, Audience Prize Youth Co:Lab Social Innovation Challenge
Accelerator program
・Osaka city startup company support program OSAP 9th term
・United Nations Development Program (UNDP) "Springboard Program" by UNDP selection teams in 26 countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region (training, 2020)
・RISING!6.0 Organized by: Osaka Industrial Development Bureau, Public Interest Foundation, EO All KANSAI Co-organized by: Osaka Prefecture
・Jakarta newspaper (newspaper for Japanese residents in Indonesia) (April and June 2019)
・Bali Newspaper (July 2018)
・Kobe Shimbun "Chara-ben" to save Indonesia! ? (June 2019)
・Mainichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. Exchange class with Balinese students Kwansei Gakuin High School common theme discussion (June 2019)
・Monthly “Business Concept” July issue New method of global human resource development that connects with overseas high schools online (July 7)
・Monthly “Sendenkaigi” August issue Responding to school issues and needs Eliminating “barriers” in international exchange classes (August 8)
・Mainichi Shimbun Monthly “Mainichi Forum” Thinking about regional issues with Asian students (August 2019)
・Kobe Shimbun "Online study abroad experience" Using your home time for learning (April 2020)
・Mainichi Shimbun "Internet exchange project to learn with the same generation overseas" (May 2020)
・Fuji TV Future Runners ~17 Future~ (May 2020)
・ e Columbus cover "GIGA School Concept" (July 2020)
・ Mainichi Shimbun Online Exchange One step to the world (September 2020)