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Award History

- November Nov.
  1989 Tact Co., Ltd. established at 2-9-5 Higashisakata Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture as School IE, a prep school that provided thorough individual education.
- January Jan.
  1997 The FC Division office is set up and development of school franchses began.
- June Jun.
  2000 WinBe, an English conversation school staffed with native speakers, established and combined with School IE to form IE Square, a comprehensive education group.
- March Mar.
  2001 Child Eyes is established to teach pre-school children and added to IE Square. In May of 2006, the Head Office moves to 2-24-2 Hatchobori, Chuo City, Tokyo.
- May May.
  2008 The Taiwan affiliate, Taiwan Tact Education Co., Ltd. is established
- May May.
  2008 Tact School IE opens
- September Sep.
  2008 Kids Duo established as both a pre-school and after-school program conducted in English
- November Nov.
  2010 In-house think tank, Institute for Development of Independence is established (Name changed to Institute of Scientific Research in Motivation in February 2018)
- September Sep.
  2011 Tact Holdings Co. established
- September Sep.
  2012 Development of YARUKI Yume-spo, a sports program for pre-school children (Name changed to Ninja 9 in January 2016)
- February Feb.
  2013 Reached a total of 1,000 schools in Japan and overseas
- April Apr.
  2013 Kids Duo International, a bilingual kindergarten, opened
  September 2013 - Individual education, language and early-education divided and new companies - Tact Co., Ltd. and Tact Kodomomirai Co., Ltd. established
- March Mar.
  2014 The name Tact Holdings Co., Ltd. changed to YARUKI Switch Group Holdings Co., Ltd.
- August Aug.
  2015 The Japan Phonics Association and the Japan Children’s Spelling Bee Association established
- April Apr.
  2018 Established Bilingual + Active Childcare: I Kids Star
- September Sep.
  2018 YARUKI Switch Careers Co., Ltd. established
- March Mar.
  2019 YARUKI Switch Group Holdings Co., Ltd. merged with Tact Co., Ltd. and Tact Kodomomirai Co., Ltd. Company name changed to YARUKI Switch Group Co., Ltd.
- January Jan.
  2020 YARUKI Switch Group Holdings Co., Ltd established for stock transfers
- December Dec.
  2020 YP Switch Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Preferred Networks Co., Ltd to teach programming and manage franchised schools is established
- September Sep.
  2021 YGC Co., Ltd., a joing venture with Gakken Juku Holdings Co., Ltd., to develop a next generation study model is established
- December Dec.
  2021 Reached a total of 2,000 schools in Japan and overseas
- June Jun.
  2023 YARUKI Switch Group Holdings Co., Ltd received a capital investment from TBS Holdings and Joined TBS Group
- December Dec.
  2023 Acquired shares of Taiwan Tact Education Co., Ltd., and established it to a subsidiary company

- January Jan.
  2006 “Outstanding President Award” received at the 10th Chiba Prefecture Startup Company Entrepreneur Awards
- November Nov.
  2010 Ranked 17th in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2012 Ranked 5th in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- December Dec.
  2015 School IE awarded 1st place overall in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2015 for “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tokai” and “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education (Kinki)”
- April Apr.
  2016 Received the Oustanding Performance Award and Excellence Award in “Japan Resilience Award 2016”
- November Nov.
  2016 Ranked 2nd in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- December Dec.
  2016 School IE awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2016 for “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tokai” and “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education (Kinki)”
- January Jan.
  2017 Child Eyes awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2017 for “Pre-school Education Intellectual Training (easily joined classes category)”
- February Feb.
  2017 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2017 for “Elementary School Cram Individual Education (Greater Tokyo Area)”
- March Mar.
  Mar.
  2017 Received the Oustanding Performance Award and Award in “Japan Resilience Award 2017”
- November Nov.
  2017 Ranked 2nd in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2018 School IE awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2018 for “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Kinki”
- November Nov.
  2018 Ranked 2nd in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- December Dec.
  2018 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2018 for “Elementary School Cram Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area” and “University Entrance Exam Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”
- November Nov.
  2019 Ranked 2nd in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2019 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2019 for “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tokai” and “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Koshinetsu and Tokai”
- December Dec.
  2019 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2019 for “Elementary School Cram Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”
- November Nov.
  2020 Ranked 2nd in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2020 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2020 for “University Entrance Exams Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Koshinetsu and Hokuriku” and “Elementary School Cram Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”
- October Oct.
  2021 Ranked 1st in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2021 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2021 for “University Entrance Exams Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tohoku”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tokai” and “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Hokuriku”
- October Oct.
  2022 Ranked 1st in Nikkei MJ’s “Service Industry General Study: Cram School and Preparatory School Category” sales ranking
- November Nov.
  2022 School IE Awarded 1st place in Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2022 for “University Entrance Exams Individual Education in the Greater Tokyo Area”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tohoku”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Tokai”, “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Koshinetsu and Hokuriku” and “Highschool Entrance Exam Individual Education in Northern Kanto”
- November Nov.
  2022 Child Eyes wins in the category of Preschool Classrooms for 2022 "iid Awards" for "Favorite Preschool Classrooms by kids", "Preschool Classrooms with outstanding lessons", "Preschool Classrooms with excellent teaching materials" and "Effective Preschool Classrooms"
- June Jun.
  2023 In Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2023, programming education HALLO won 2nd place overall in the 'Programming Classes for Children' category.
- October Oct.
  2023 In Nikkei MJ 'Service Industry Comprehensive Survey,' in the Cram School/Preparatory School category, ranked No. 1 in sales for three consecutive years."
- November Nov.
  2023 In Oricon Japan Customer Satisfaction Ranking 2023, School IE received first place in the following categories:
  'Individualized Coaching for University Entrance Exams (Greater Tokyo Area)'
  'Individualized Coaching for High School Entrance Exams (Tohoku Region)'

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An international network of 2,300 schools, from individual education cram schools to intellectual, English education. YARUKI Switch Group is a comprehensive education group operating individual education cram schools, early childhood classes, kids sports schools, English conversation schools, after-school childcare in English, bilingual kindergartens and bilingual childcare facilities, nationwide and internationally.
We support the education of over 130,000 children in 2,300 schools within Japan and internationally.
We cheer on the dreams and lives of children around the world by finding the jewel inside each and every single one and explore the infinite possibilities within them.

IE - individual education cram school

ChildEyes - Intellectual training
and elementary school exam
preparation

Ninja 9 - Sports school for
pre and elementary school

WinBe -English conversation school
for pre and elementary school

Kids Duo -Fully immersive English
aftercshool care

KDI - A Kindergarten to create
global citizens

iKidStar - Bilingual education
and childcare

HALLO - World class computer science education