SPEAKING & APPEARANCE
Turning problems in education into
words that move society.
Support for children not attending school, education infrastructure, social entrepreneurship, building organisations, careers. Through talks, classes, training and media appearances, we turn what NIJIN has put into practice on the ground into words that set society in motion.
THEMES
Four themes
we can speak on.
We speak not only from ideals but from the experience of actually building a business and working face to face with children, teachers and communities. We design the content and format to suit the audience and the purpose of the event.
Education and school non-attendance
Drawing on practice at NIJIN Academy, we speak about the structure that produces school non-attendance, a new education infrastructure that stands alongside schools, psychological safety in the classroom, and digital × teachers’ skill.
Social entrepreneurship and building a business
We share how to design a business that solves social problems through “systems” rather than “people”, how to start from zero, and how to run a company that combines social impact with sustainability.
Organisation and management
With real examples, we speak about building an organisation where educators can do their best work, turning a philosophy into a business, hiring, development and delegation, and teams with psychological safety.
Careers and ways of living
For secondary school students, university students and young professionals: how to live in an age with no right answers, how to find what you want to do, and lessons from the JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and from teaching.
We design the content to suit the audience and format
WORKS
From television to universities and schools.
A growing record of talks and appearances.
Schools, universities and MBA programmes, companies, local governments, education trade fairs, academic societies and the media. For each audience, we share the practice of changing problems in education at the level of systems. Where a video or article exists, you can see more from each card.
01 / TV ASAHI
TV Asahi
“BooSTAR: We Support Startups”
Tatsuro Hoshino, Founder and CEO of NIJIN, appeared in the studio. He spoke about the social structure that produces school non-attendance, a new kind of learning that combines online and in-person, and the future of public education.
Image source: TV Asahi “BooSTAR” programme page
02 / NHK
NHK
“Shutoken Network”
The report follows a child who had stopped attending school and who, after finding a safe environment and friends, regained their voice and smile. It showed practice that leads from learning online to taking part in society in person.
Read the article on the NHK report (in Japanese) NHK “Shutoken Network”, broadcast on 8 May 2026
03 / WASEDA MBA
Waseda University MBA
“Social Innovation” lecture
A talk for MBA students with management expertise and professional experience. He spoke about solving problems in education through business: the plan for an education infrastructure that stands alongside schools, the structure that produces school non-attendance, creating business through co-creation with society, and organisation, hiring and finance.
04 / SCHOOL
High school graduation lecture
A talk for about 250 final-year students at a private high school in the Greater Tokyo area, on the theme “How to live in an age with no right answers”. He spoke about his path from a youth with nothing he wanted to do to starting an education business, and about how an entrepreneur thinks.
Read the article (in Japanese)
05 / JICA
JICA BLUE
Entrepreneurship course
A talk for the first cohort of BLUE, JICA’s project supporting Overseas Cooperation Volunteers who start businesses. He spoke about his path from volunteering in Guatemala to starting a company, and about ways of thinking that connect social problems to a business.
06 / BUSINESS
Japan Finance Corporation
Seminar for people starting a business
He spoke as an experienced founder at the “Minato Mirai Next-Generation Startup Café”, co-hosted by Japan Finance Corporation and SoLabo. Through his starting point as a teacher who became a founder, start-up loans, and failures and difficulties, he shared the questions worth asking before starting a business.
07 / EDIX
Talk at EDIX Tokyo (Education Expo)
He took the stage with NIJIN Academy pupils and students who had experienced school non-attendance. They presented a new kind of learning built on “the metaverse × teachers’ skill”, and the children told more than 200 attendees, some of them standing, about not attending school in their own words.
08 / MEIJI UNIVERSITY
Meiji University lecture
He spoke as a social entrepreneur working on problems in education. Around the idea of “technology × teachers’ skill × co-creation with society”, he presented NIJIN’s practice of solving problems such as school non-attendance through systems, not through someone’s extra effort.
Read the article (in Japanese)
09 / ONLINE
JICA online seminar on starting a business
He spoke at BLUE, the project by JICA and Borderless Japan that supports Overseas Cooperation Volunteers who start businesses. He shared how he came to start a company, the key points in preparing, and what he learned from failure.
Read the article (in Japanese)
10 / BORDERLESS
Borderless Academy
Entrepreneurship course
At Borderless Academy, a school for social entrepreneurs, he explained in concrete and practical terms the skills and mindset needed to start a business. He taught both online and in person, and 100% of participants said they were satisfied.
Read the article (in Japanese)
11 / RADIO
Appearance on Nippon Cultural Broadcasting’s “Reika Tanaka’s Recomen! Real Voice”
He appeared on “Reika Tanaka’s Recomen! Real Voice” three weeks running with NIJIN Academy students. Through a conversation that reached across different circumstances, they sent a message of reassurance to young people who feel alone in society.
Read the article (in Japanese)
12 / ACADEMIC SOCIETY
Special lecture at the Clinical Art Society
On the theme “The ‘Picasso’s viewpoint’ that turns school non-attendance into hope, and the ‘psychological safety’ that lets diverse individuality flourish”, he presented practice in which children not attending school regain initiative and confidence through self-expression.
Read the article (in Japanese)
13 / JCI
Junior Chamber International Japan lecture
A talk on the theme “How communities can help develop initiative and self-esteem”. He presented a way of seeing the individuality of children whom school does not fit, and a system for learning that draws on the community and digital tools.
14 / EDIX KANSAI
EDIX Kansai (Education Expo)
Talk on school non-attendance
He spoke as a specialist in school non-attendance at EDIX Kansai, a general education trade fair. Together with children from NIJIN Academy, he presented “a system for education that leaves no one behind, through digital × teachers’ skill” to an audience of more than 200.
Read the article (in Japanese)
15 / GLOBAL FESTA
Global Festa JAPAN
International cooperation event
He spoke as a former JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteer at Global Festa JAPAN, co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He talked about the hardships and results of international cooperation, and the value he can see only now, ten years on.
Read the article (in Japanese)
16 / JICA
JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
Launch event for the new campaign ambassador
He took part as a former JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteer and entrepreneur. In a talk session on the theme “Life turns on a single chance”, he described how his time as a volunteer in Guatemala led to starting an education business and to his work today.
Read the article (in Japanese)Talks that do not end in the room,
but lead to the next step.
We take on talks, classes, training, workshops, and interviews for television, radio and web media. We design the content to suit the participants or audience, the purpose of the event and the time available.