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1. Initiatives for the Educational Business
Initiatives for the Educational Business
The KADOKAWA Group runs educational businesses for students to learn about diversity and how to interact with local communities while also offering the opportunity to receive practical and professional education to even more people.
Providing Educational Content and Learning Services
[N High School, S High School, and R High School]
DWANGO Co., Ltd. offers its original educational content and services for learning to N High School, S High School and R High School (hereinafter, the “N High School Group”) operated by KADOKAWA DWANGO Educational Institute. R High School opened in Kiryu City, Gunma in April 2025.
Using interactive educational services designed for the Internet era as well as experiential learning services utilizing VR, students at N High School Group study curricula daily to earn a high school diploma using computers, smartphones, tablets, VR goggles, and other digital tools.
The number of students has increased markedly since N High School opened in 2016, offering educational opportunities to 32,613 students nationwide (as of the end of March 2025).
In addition, Commuter Course campuses will be expanded to 100 locations nationwide.
In N High School Group, students devote their free time to what they want to learn, as they can study efficiently whenever and wherever they want. In addition to university entrance exam support, programing, and language study, the schools offer educational programs to experience actual agriculture and fishing across Japan, study abroad programs, other extracurricular programs, and activities to study esports, investing, and starting businesses from former professional athletes and experts so that students can learn about collective strengths while also valuing their own autonomy.
In April 2024, a dedicated AI chat system was introduced with the use of ChatGPT-4, intended for students in the General Course. Providing a business-level chat system with the high security and high performance of ChatGPT contributes to greater efficiency in daily learning and extracurricular activities and offers experiences needed in society.
In the residential, experiential learning program, students work with Yamagata University’s assistant professor on activities such as developing ideas for AI utilization in agriculture and the use of AI for communicating knowledge about wood through forestry experience in Nagato City, Yamaguchi.
Opportunities to learn about diversity and contributions to communities are available through a project for proposing plans to resolve social issues in collaboration with local municipalities, companies, universities, NPOs and specialists all over Japan.
In 2022, N High School was included in the top three schools providing advanced education in the Innovation division of World’s Best School Prizes organized by T4 Education, a British organization for educational support. N High School has been recognized as one of the world’s top schools for three consecutive years, being included in T4 Education’s selection of the world’s 100 best schools in 2020 and 2021.
[ZEN University]
Opened in April 2025, ZEN University is a fully online undergraduate university based in Japan. It is committed to breaking down barriers such as income and location that often limit access to higher education by using the most advanced IT technologies.
The Faculty of Social Informatics, the only faculty at ZEN University, enables students to acquire the literacy necessary for working in the dramatically changing the Age of AI by completing their studies without leaning towards specific academic fields. The university also has many different program activities, such as fieldwork in cooperation with local communities and businesses and international exchange activities, enabling students to cultivate practical skills for working in society.
DWANGO Co., Ltd. makes videos of ZEN University’s on-demand classes. By the time the university opened, 6,480 videos had been made. A total of 12,400 videos will be completed by the end of Academic Year 2026.
Videos of the classes will be viewable on the ZEN Study online learning system (https://www.nnn.ed.nico/).
School Operating Business
Since its establishment in 1965, Vantan Inc. has been running vocational schools to train professionals in creative fields. Inviting active professionals in their fields as instructors, Vantan Inc. operates 13 vocational schools in a wide range of fields such as fashion, hair and make-up, beauty, graphic design, film and digital media, game design, e-sports, animation, confectionery, cooking, programming, entertainment content creators and social media influence, providing hands-on training close to the workspace to develop human resources with the ability to work immediately, and has produced approximately 210,000 graduates to date (as of March 31, 2025). Vantan Inc. has the High School Division (*1) which enables students to obtain a high school diploma, the Vocational Division, which is designed for students 18 years and older, the University Division, which enables students to obtain a university degree, (*2) and the Career College, which is designed for working professionals and university students.
The KADOKAWA SCHOOL OF MANGA and the KADOKAWA SCHOOL OF ANIME opened in April 2024. They specialize in digital cartoons and animations.
The VANTAN ART ACADEMY and the VANTAN INTERNATIONAL CULINARY ARTS ACADEMY opened in April 2025. Students can earn a university degree while acquiring specialized skills. (*2)
Mr. Ryogo Matsumaru, who is extensively active as a riddle-solving creator, became the honorary director of Vantan Game Academy. In April 2026, a new course called the Riddle-Solving Creator Course will open and be supervised by Mr. Matsumaru.
The Vantan Music Academy Powered by Universal Music will open in April of the same year. This music school is adapted to the digital age and is partnered with Universal Music LLC, a Japanese subsidiary of the U.S. Universal Music Group. Tomoyasu Hotei, an internationally renowned musician at the forefront of the rock music scene, will serve as a special advisor to the academy.
*1 A high school diploma is awarded by the partner online high school, Kadokawa Dwango Educational Institute's S High School.
*2 A university degree is awarded by partner online institutions.
