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WEWORLD Inc. manages the WEWORLD group, which includes the school corporation ISI Gakuen. The group runs the ISI Japanese language schools in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, vocational colleges such as Tokyo Business Gaigo College and Nagano Business Gaigo College, the Tokyo campus of Beijing Language and Culture University, a preparatory school, study-abroad services and dormitories. WEWORLD itself provides job placement and worker dispatch.
The group traces its origins to a cram school opened in Ueda, Nagano in 1977 and began Japanese-language teaching in 1992. Its first Tokyo school, ISI Tokyo, opened in Takadanobaba in 2002. The operating company, previously ISI Global, took the name WEWORLD in 2024 and has its head office in Nishi-Shinjuku. The group had 1,411 staff in March 2026.
Measured from the 18 listings Ranked has live for WEWORLD. 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.
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Lead WEWORLD's foreign talent placement business (GLOBAL REACH): set strategy and budgets, drive corporate sales, run placement and retention support, and manage the team.
Lead group-wide HR strategy for an education group: grading, evaluation and pay systems, hiring and training, labour compliance and managing the HR department.
Handle monthly and annual closing, bookkeeping, budgets and cash flow in the head-office accounting team of an education group, with a path to leading the team.
Recruit international students from Asia for nine Japanese language schools by working with overseas study-abroad agents, interviewing applicants and supporting their COE applications.
Act as homeroom teacher for international students at a Tokyo vocational college while guiding their job hunting in Japan, from career interviews and application coaching to finding new job openings with employers.
Lead the administration office of a career-focused Japanese language school in Shibuya-Harajuku: school operations, student and visa records, budgets and KPIs, campuses and staff.
New-business B2B sales for the WEWORLD group's foreign talent placement service: find target companies, book meetings, diagnose hiring needs and propose foreign-hire solutions.
Design curricula and teaching materials for a group of eight Japanese language schools, analyse learning data and plan training for teachers and staff.
Provide IT support to staff and teachers of an education group, from PC setup and account management to building VBA or script tools and applying AI to everyday work.
Run the evening office of a Japanese language school for international students in Shibuya and Harajuku: front desk and phone enquiries, student support and collecting student records.
Support teachers and students at an international vocational college in Ikebukuro: check student documents and attendance, enter school data and send notices to students.
Back-office support for recruiting international students to vocational colleges: answering student enquiries, preparing documents, data entry, scheduling and event preparation.
Full-time Japanese teacher at ISI Japanese Language School, teaching international students from beginner to advanced with homeroom, career guidance and student management duties.
Full-time Japanese teacher at ISI Japanese Language School, teaching international students from beginner to advanced with homeroom, career guidance and student management duties.
Part-time Japanese teacher at ISI Japanese Language School campuses in Tokyo, teaching beginner to advanced classes in general and career Japanese courses in 90-minute lessons.
Manage graduate school applications and student records for international students at a Shinjuku prep school, handling student and parent consultations and coordinating with lecturers.
Run China-facing marketing for WEWORLD's Japanese-language and vocational schools: RED (Xiaohongshu) accounts, Chinese web pages, KOL campaigns and data analysis to attract students.
Teach EJU Japanese and JLPT preparation classes to international students, mainly from China, aiming for Japanese universities and graduate schools, and build lesson plans and materials.