ShoPro - Shogakukan-Shueisha Production Co., Ltd.

"Dora-Kids" — Educational classes for small children

Designed for pre-elementary school children, ShoPro provides educational programs so each child can "learn through playing" in our schools nationwide. Activities are based on early childhood programs that nurture the children's interests and curiosity, and stimulate their "intellectual", "emotional" and "physical" needs. We also provide comprehensive, educational development courses and English language courses.

"Shogakukan Academy" — Comprehensive and educational programs are taught in our schools for students who range from kindergarten to junior high school levels.

Founded in 1970 with English education originally as the primary focus, Shogakukan Academy schools offer well-balanced "fun-study" class programs for students who can study and strengthen their fundamental learning skills such as "English" and other important subjects "Japanese" and "Mathematics", which are skills necessary for students to use in their future.

"HAS": Human Assistant Services — Operation of day care facilities and provider of babysitting services.

ShoPro offers a variety of child care services nationwide, ranging from the operation of day care and nursery facilities to personal babysitting services.

Other Educational Courses

ShoPro operates a variety of adult courses: PC Learning Course, Painting Course, Pottery Course and Japanese Paleography Course. We also offer specialty courses for senior citizens at our facilities: Animal Therapy Course and Picture Postcard Course. With our resourceful experience in English education, we extensively provide a lot of support in classroom activities to enhance and improve English learning in elementary schools.

Correspondence Education Department(DORAZEMI)

The Correspondence Education Department (DORAZEMI) offers an excellent correspondence education system for young children using materials co-developed with Shogakukan Publishing. This is a new learning system for children to do at home which is supported by interesting and fun materials featuring the cartoon character, Doraemon.

Recreation Planning Section

The Recreation Planning Section offers recreatinal programs for outdoor activities and camping. It plans and operates a variety of recreational project. ShoPro has administered projects for various companies and local government agencies.

ShoPro also runs SRLC (Shogakukan Recreation Leaders Club) which started in 1981. The objective of this club is to train leaders for outdoor or recreational activities.

Social Education Department

The Social Education Department offers social educational services. This division has four main sections: Project Promotion, Planning and Development, Recreation Planning and Public Education Planning. These sections work together to provide the best service and support for our clients.

Correctional Services Department

The Correctional Services Department provides correctional education and social rehabilitation programs for inmates in correctional facilities including the first public-private cooperated correctional facility in Japan.

Backed by our expertise in comprehensive educational programs, we also offer a variety of social rehabilitation and crime prevention programs including psychological education and IT job training as well as rehabilitation programs and training for mentally and physical handicapped inmates.