Gakken Holdings

Education · Publishing · Care services · Shinagawa, Tokyo

Gakken Holdings is the holding company of the Gakken Group. Its education businesses publish picture books, illustrated encyclopedias, learning materials and other books, and run classrooms, cram schools and home tutoring for children from preschool to high school. Courses for adults cover qualifications, foreign languages and skills, and the group also serves nurseries, schools and corporate clients.

Its welfare businesses include Cocofump senior housing, Ai-no-ie group homes specializing in dementia care, nursing homes, home-visit nursing, pharmacies and welfare equipment, alongside childcare facilities. The group reported consolidated sales of 199.1 billion yen for the year ended September 2025.

Most requested
  • MySQL 2
  • PostgreSQL 2
  • Ruby 2
  • Japanese posting, level unstated 17
Common areas
  • Sales 4
  • Backend engineering 2
  • Business development 2
  • Operations 2

Measured from the 17 listings Ranked has live for Gakken Holdings. Japanese level, visa signal and skills are AI-graded from each posting and can be wrong — confirm against the employer's original posting before applying.

17

Freelance

Japanese?

Sales

Client Rel

JP company

Enterprise

Visit families with children who are not attending school to hear their concerns, explain Gakken's home tutoring support, give a trial lesson and prepare a contract quotation.

Full-time

Japanese?

Accounting

HR

Operations

Finance

Back-office role at head office covering finance and accounting, general affairs, or HR and labour: bookkeeping and closing, office administration, payroll, hiring and training.

Full-time

Japanese?

Sales

Management

Biz Dev

Consulting

Lead new-client acquisition with large enterprises for mentoring and DE&I training services, running inbound and outbound pipelines and coaching a sales team.

Full-time

Japanese?

Management

Operations

Fin Analyst

Flextime

Section or deputy department manager at the head office of a nursery and after-school care operator, running billing and performance management or facility operations.

Part-time

Japanese?

Sales

Client Rel

JP company

Enterprise

Visit families who want home tutoring, check the student's study situation and explain the system, then match enrolled students with tutors and follow up once lessons start.

Full-time

Japanese?

Sales

Account Mgr

Flextime

JP company

Sell and support online learning systems that let industry associations move licence and qualification renewal courses online, from first contact to post-launch support.

Full-time

Japanese?

Biz Dev

Strategy

Flextime

Bonus

Develop a new welfare-sector business for a childcare operator: analyse local needs, shape the concept and business model, plan budgets and launch the first facilities.

Full-time

Japanese?

Operations

Events

JP company

Enterprise

Run a campus of a free school and correspondence high school support school for students who cannot attend school: teaching, student guidance, events and recruitment.

Full-time

Japanese?

Management

Bonus

JP company

Enterprise

Run an after-school care facility for elementary pupils: oversee play and snacks, manage staff shifts and figures, handle parents and liaise with schools and local government.

Early Learning and Elementary Instructor
Gakken Holdings · Gakken Classroom, Shinonome Canal Court

Freelance

Japanese?

Large co

JP company

Enterprise

Teach early-childhood learning classes and elementary-school mathematics and Japanese to Gakken Classroom students aged from infancy to sixth grade, in 45 to 90 minute sessions.

English Instructor
Gakken Holdings · Gakken Classroom, Ario Nishiarai

Freelance

Japanese?

Eng Teacher

Eikaiwa

Large co

JP company

Teach English and English conversation lessons in English to Gakken Classroom students aged from infancy to sixth grade, in 30 to 60 minute sessions.

Full-time

Japanese?

JP company

Enterprise

Large co

Support individuals through welfare programmes Gakken L-Staffing runs for government agencies, including support for socially withdrawn people, social participation and independent living.

Full-time

Japanese?

Management

Cybersec

Security

Compliance

Lead group-wide information security management at Gakken Holdings: set policy and annual plans, drive audits and overseas security work, and manage the team.

Full-time

Japanese?

Cybersec

Security

Compliance

Cloud

Drive group-wide information security operations at Gakken Holdings as a team leader or sub-leader: routine security management, audits, training and web tasks.

Full-time

Japanese?

Backend

Rails

Ruby

Postgres

Design, build and test Ruby on Rails backends for the ShikakuPass reskilling service and new web products, improving features from production data in a Scrum team.

Full-time

Japanese?

Backend

Rails

Ruby

Tech Lead

Lead backend development in Ruby on Rails for the ShikakuPass reskilling service and new web products, improving features from data and developing team members.