{"id":51359,"date":"2021-10-26T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/?p=51359"},"modified":"2024-05-13T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:59:08","slug":"englishcentral-and-tosho-group-establish-an-edtech-joint-venture-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/en\/news\/englishcentral-and-tosho-group-establish-an-edtech-joint-venture-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"EnglishCentral and Tosho Group Establish an EdTech Joint Venture in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tokyo, Japan \u2013 October 26, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EnglishCentral today announced a joint venture to develop and distribute English language learning solutions for the school market in Japan with Tosho Printing Co., Ltd (\u201dTosho\u201d). Tosho is a subsidiary of the Toppan Group, one of Japan\u2019s leading publishing and printing companies with more than $13 billion in annual revenue and more than 52,000 employees.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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As part of the joint venture, Tosho educational group and EnglishCentral will establish a venture dedicated to providing services for the K-12 and University school market in Japan. The venture will operate under the EnglishCentral brand and will focus on the K-12 and university students that Tosho touches every year, targeting 1 million students.<\/p>\n

EnglishCentral\u2019s IntelliSpeech\u2120 platform will be at the core of the venture. IntelliSpeech\u2120 uses AI-powered interactive exercises to help students develop their spoken English by given them instant feedback on their pronunciation and fluency. The IntelliSpeech\u2120 platform is already bundled with Kirihara\u2019s most successful government approved Textbooks, Pro-Vision, WorldTrek and Empower. The goal of the venture is not only to expand the number of titles and reach of IntelliSpeech\u2120 but also to create a whole new set of products based on AI-powered chatbots that can effectively both train and assess students\u2019 true communicative ability.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnglishCentral is proud to play a key role in Tosho\u2019s digital transformation strategy, \u201c\u2018 stated Hirofumi Matsumura, the General Manager of EnglishCentral Japan. \u201cI am delighted to expand our partnership with Tosho to accelerate adoption of IntelliSpeech\u2120 into the K-12 market. The demand for EnglishCentral\u2019s English speaking solutions has been exploding and we are delighted to have a partner with the size and reach of Tosho to help us dramatically expand our footprint in the Japan school market. With the support of Tosho in this new venture, we will exponentially increase our sales and support coverage for the school market in Japan, with seven local branches covering each region of Japan. I\u2019m delighted to be leading this new venture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very impressed by how EnglishCentral is applying the latest in AI-powered learning and assessment technologies to the English learning products,\u201d stated Seiji Yano, Senior Managing Director at Tosho. There is still a long way to go to bring the speaking level of Japanese K-12 and university students to compete effectively in the global marketplace. Through this new venture, we are proud to offer new, innovative solutions to Japanese students to help improve their spoken English.\u201d<\/p>\n

About EnglishCentral:<\/p>\n

EnglishCentral is the most widely adopted AI-powered English language conversation platform in the world, changing the way students and professionals across the globe learn to speak English. Adopted by over 1000 universities, schools and corporations in over 100 countries, the company delivers interactive, video-based language learning experiences for both self-study and one-on-one tutoring, providing one of the most widely adopted and complete platforms for practicing and mastering English conversation online. Its extensive library of video lessons, proprietary IntelliSpeech\u2120 speech assessment technology, and pre-built course modules guarantee results for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","yb_wpb_post_custom_css":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EnglishCentral today announced a joint venture to develop and distribute English language learning solutions for the school market in Japan with Tosho Printing Co., Ltd (\u201dTosho\u201d). Tosho is a subsidiary of the Toppan Group, one of Japan\u2019s leading publishing and printing companies with more than $13 billion in annual revenue and more than 52,000 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"image_url":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/englishcentral_and_tosho_group_establish_an_edtech_joint_venture_in_japan.webp","author_name":"Irem Ugurlu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53007,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51359\/revisions\/53007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishcentral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}