In Japan, education was considered the foundation of industrial development. For 50 years since the end of World War II, an emphasis has been placed on Education that would uniformly raise the level of education for all Japanese citizens.

In the Japanese Education system, which emphasizes uniformly high "academic abilities" rather than the "individual", academic tests are conducted in each course as students for move from elementary school to junior high school, high school, and university. The students' success or failure is determined by the results of these tests.

One consequence of this approach was that students who only attended regular school classes could not achieve the test results required to attend a school with a high "deviation value". This led to the development of "Juku" schools: private learning establishments that could offer students the skills required to succeed in school entrance exams. There are various types of Juku schools, including group study Jukus where one teacher instructs many students, and private study Jukus in which classes resemble home tutoring. Society has now become aware of the negative effects of excessive competition and overemphasis on preparing for exams. Many people have come to question whether driving children to study at the expense of sports and other leisure activities - particularly when these children are at such an impressionable age - is truly beneficial to their future.

Even now, however, entrance exams tend to emphasize deviation values and academic performance.
What Japan needs right now is education that will allow students to succeed in exams while still respecting their individuality.

Riso Kyoiku Co., Ltd., which operates the "TOMAS" private study Jukus, has maintained the same basic philosophy since its establishment: "Students' individuality, and individual differences, are infinite. True education - Ideal education - is capable of responding accurately and appropriately to those individual differences".

Students at TOMAS pass entrance exams for the most demanding schools, while maintaining a healthy balance between studies and non-academic activities. This is because TOMAS offers one-to-one instruction, in which each student is taught by one instructor in each subject, based on a personal curriculum created to suit each student's individual academic needs and abilities.

TOMAS maximizes the merits of scale achieved by the Riso Kyoiku Group, which includes four subsidiaries - Nihon Edunet, Meimonkai, Shingakai, and School Tour Ship - to provide educational services with a focus on "the individual". In the future, we will continue to offer our unique brand of "Comprehensive Lifestyle Information Services".