A language school in Makati

Message from our representative

Junki Kanemitsu

CEO

I founded Grandline to make education effective and relevant to the real world. Since my student days I have been interested in education and have always thought about how people can learn effectively.

Mathematics is better taught by first showing what a formula is used for in the real world. Take differential calculus: it can be used to calculate how far a stock price might instantly fall right after you buy it. Real examples make things easier to understand. If you don’t know why you are memorizing a formula, it is hard to understand it and make it stick.

English is the same. If you study English you never use in daily life, it is hard to imagine when you would use it and difficult to acquire. But if it is English you need for tomorrow’s meeting with a foreign client, you have no choice but to learn it — and as a result you master English faster. Based on this policy, Grandline’s English curriculum is committed to practicality.

As Japan’s population has declined since peaking in 2008, in 2011 Japan fell from the world’s second-largest GDP to third for the first time in 43 years. Zero growth has continued since, and in 2023 Japan was expected to fall to fourth.

As Japan’s relative presence is feared to be declining, there is a growing need for the power of the “individual” to expand possibilities abroad. We even sense a trend in which the ability to manage business in other countries — grounded in language skills and an understanding of multinational rules and cultural differences — is becoming an essential requirement, not as a weapon but as a shield to protect the “individual”.

In this environment, our company faced the unprecedented upheaval of COVID-19 in its 10th year. While building our ability to respond to the unexpected, we will continue to forge ahead amid the changes of the times to provide an educational infrastructure that consistently supports the career development each individual needs — from students taking on the challenges of the future to working professionals who are called upon to demonstrate their individual strength right now.