Vision/Mission
Since its establishment, Nichii Gakkan Co., Ltd. (the company) has offered a range of services that are closely connected to everyday life, based on its management philosophy of “we are committed to helping people live healthy, happier lives”. The company will continue to generate new value and work to enrich people’s lifestyles, anticipating changes in social conditions and meeting the demands of the changing times.
The company will also support efforts to address the issue of an aging society with a low birth rate that confronts China and other countries around Asia. It will apply the know-how it has gained through operations in Japan to the greatest extent possible.
Our Principles
Integrity, honor, passion
Our Philosophy
We believe in serving society with integrity, acting with honor as we carry out our business’s social mission, and striving with youthful passion for an unlimited future.
At Nichii, we are committed to helping people live healthy, happier lives.
Business Description
Since the establishment of the company, the medical support business, the long-term care and health care business, and the education business have served as its three operational pillars. In recent years, the company has expanded businesses into other fields, such as childcare and language studies, to meet the rising need for childcare support and cope with the advancement of globalization. The company runs multi-faceted businesses today as a provider of total life services.
Background
December 1968
The company is founded. The current chairman, president, and representative director starts medical administrative services business.
May 1971
The company starts on-site lessons for medical administration. (Start of its education business.)
October 1972
The company expands its medical administrative services business across the country.
August 1973
The company is established as Child Care Academy Co., Ltd.
August 1975
Child Care Academy Co., Ltd. changes its corporate name to Nichii Gakkan Company.
August 1980
The company finishes setting up branch offices in all prefectures in Japan.
July 1995
The company is registered as an OTC company.
April 1996
The company starts its general long-term care business with a focus on in-home care.
March 1999
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section.
April 2000
The company develops long-term care service facilities in 749 locations in response to the implementation of long-term care insurance. (A full-scale expansion of its long-term care business.)
September 2002
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section.
April 2003
The company enters the childcare business.
April 2005
The company starts long-term care prevention services.
November 2007
The company expands its full-scale facility-care services.
September 2011
The company makes Gaba Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary. (Entry into the language business.)
February 2012
Nichii Carenet China Co. Ltd. (currently Nichii Shanghai Co. Ltd.) is established. (The first launch in China.)
February 2012
The company makes SELC Australia Pty. Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary. (Set up of student support for overseas student exchanges.)
April 2012
The company starts and rapidly expands Coco Juku language schools. (A full-scale expansion of the language business.)
December 2013–November 2014
The company establishes affiliate companies in China. (Nichii Beijing Co. Ltd., Nichii Hong Kong Co. Ltd., and Nichii Guangzhou Co. Ltd.)
December 2015
ZhongFu Nichii Healthservices Co. Ltd. is established.
Products/Services
Vocational Education Business
Offers vocational training courses for training medical support service and care service experts.
Medical Support Business
Offers services, such as those related to medical administration at medical institutions and management support, to about 10,000 medical institutions.
Long-Term Care Business
Offers total care services ranging from at-home care services to facility care services to about 150,000 people from 1,400 operating bases across Japan.
Healthcare Business
Offers domestic help services and markets private-brand disposable diapers.
Childcare Business
Runs nursery schools and day care centers located inside company offices and hospitals.
Language Business
Runs English conversation schools and supports students studying abroad.
Markets
Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, Canada and Philippines.
・Offers care and other lifestyle support services in China.
・Runs an international clinic in Singapore.
・Runs language schools in Australia, Canada, and the Philippines.
Industry
Long-term care and health care business: largest net sales in Japan.
Location
2-9 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Competitive Advantages
The company’s main advantage is its ability to train high-quality workers by making the most of business-to-business cooperation.
The company hires workers trained through its vocational training courses as medical support and long-term care service experts, and dispatches these experts to service locations across Japan. In addition, the company feeds knowledge and skills sought in workers who make an immediate impact at service locations back to the vocational training courses, and reflects this information within the training of high-quality workers.
Through the business model of “from education to employment” the company harnesses its business partnerships to secure the personnel required to provide these services to improve the quality of the services provided.
Company Goals & Objectives
The company has set the following goals for achieving stable corporate growth over a long period:
・Aim to capture the top position in the language businesses and childcare businesses and develop them into core businesses along with the medical support business and the long-term care and health care business.
・Promote globalization strategies and establish business foundations in China centered around care services (with 2020 as the target year.)
Management
・To advance transparent management, the group is strengthening the management oversight function by adopting the system of corporate auditors (“Kansayaku”) and establishing the internal control committee.
・The board of directors has confirmed that it will pursue profits for shareholders from a medium and long-term perspective, while establishing fair and equitable transactions with stakeholders, bearing in mind that shareholders have governance in a stock company.
・The group has appointed executive officers to accelerate the speed of decision-making in the execution of business and respond quickly to changes in the management environment.
・As a performance indicator to maximize shareholder value, the group has set the achievement of a return on equity of between at least 8% or more and 15% as a target value.
・The group works to improve the transparency of corporate management by promptly announcing and disclosing the quarterly settlement of accounts and management strategies to shareholders and investors.
Employees
Employees: 16,805 (as of March 31, 2015.)
Sub-contract employees: 79,785 (end of March, 2015 period average.)
Highlights
1968
The company launched its medical support business. (The company was also founded in this year.)
1971
Vocational education business launched.
1996
Long-term care business launched.
2003
Childcare business launched.
2003
Healthcare business launched.
2011
Language business launched.
2012
China business launched.
Website
http://www.nichiigakkan.co.jp/en
