[NEXT2035] "It's not about education or English proficiency." Nurture the power to create your life. Seminar for Parents and Children by 13 Japanese expatriates working around the world.
To the children who will be responsible for the society of the future, with an eye on the society of 2035, 13 people who are active overseas will share their "human power" and "power to create life --Free seminar for parents and children
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Alpha Seed LLC will hold the second of a series of free NEXT2035 parent-child online seminars, "Before you decide which school to apply to, let's talk about money and work," to deliver learning that fosters a connection with society based on education, career, and money to middle and high school students and their parents who are struggling to choose a career path. The seminar will be held 14 times starting September 28, 2025.
The theme of this year's seminar is "Japanese Abroad Fighting in the World in Your Own Way.
The speakers will all be 13 Japanese who have built their careers overseas. They include a lighting designer, a patent attorney, a musician, a researcher, a space travel agent, a sex coach, a digital content creator, and a daycare center owner.
[NEXT2035] Before you decide which school you want to apply to, let's talk about money and work.
Human "power" will be the key to the future.
In the society of 2035, it will not be about memorization or test scores, but about "human nature" that AI does not have, such as "the ability to ask questions" and "the ability to interact with others.
In this seminar, each lecturer will focus on how they have built their careers by connecting with the world and renewing themselves.
Online Co-educational Space to Transcend the Education Gap
The first seminar was attended by a total of 1,560 families and delivered a great deal of inspiration and awareness. This year's seminar will again utilize Zoom to provide an "open learning space" that anyone can participate in free of charge, regardless of whether they are in Japan or overseas. Our goal is to provide everyone with an equal opportunity to think about the future, regardless of region or economic situation.
Message to be delivered
There is no "right answer" to life. That is why we can create it.
To those who are anxious about going out into the world. There are adults who are going forward while being lost.
Think about "what kind of life you want to create," rather than your academic background or title.
At a time when the state of education is being questioned, "learning about society with parents and children," "having dialogue," and "learning about genuine episodes that are not sparkling information" will itself give you the power to live in the future.
This is the belief of this seminar.
Seminar Outline
Title: Before you decide which school you want to apply to, let's talk about money and work.
Parent-child seminar on surviving the educational turbulence happily.
(Part 2) Japanese Abroad Fighting in the World in Their Own Ways
Period ： September 28, 2025 (Sun) - April 12, 2026 (Sun)
Target : Junior high and high school students and their parents (10-16 years old recommended)
Format : Zoom online (free of charge, first 300 pairs, Japanese)
Sponsor : Alphaseed, LLC
Speakers: 13 Japanese residents in Japan (from various industries and regions)
How to apply: Please apply through the following Google form.
https://forms.gle/DXKLA2baEAfL7CKR7
Seminar Schedule
The following dates are all in 2025/2026 (Japan time).
Session 13: Sunday, September 28, 20:00-21:00
Parental Power Up for Children Living in the AI Era: Conditions for "Future Talent" as Seen in Japanese Abroad
Speaker: Dean Chikako (Okinawa Host Family Host)
Betty Mengbo (Language Education Researcher, Eiken Teaching Material Developer)
Mai Urano (Money educator)
Session 14: Sunday, October 19, 20:00-21:00
Sowing Seeds in India: Challenges of a Japanese who launched Asia's first/first cross-border professional firm
Speaker: Keinori Oku (Co-Founder, AsiaWise Professionals)
Session 15: Sunday, November 9, 20:00-21:00
Beyond "There are no jobs like that! How to create your own career - Living as a sex coach".
Speaker: Ochisagiri (sex coach)
Session 16: Sunday, November 23, 10:00-11:00
Career Starts with "Questioning": Beyond Higher Education, Stability, and the Search for the Right Answer, Create a Life Axis" Speaker: Daisuke Abe (Sex Coach)
Speaker: Daisuke Abe (Director, Brunswick Group)
Session 17: Sunday, November 30, 10:00-11:00
Creating a New You Starting from Observation: Learning and Unraveling the "Invisible Norms" of Women, Education, Work, Career, Family, and Parenting
Speaker: Aya Kubozumi (Freelance UX & Design Research Specialist, Visiting Researcher, NTT East Regional Recycling My Life Institute)
Session 18: Sunday, December 14, 20:00-21:00
What does it mean to start a company abroad? --Working, Hiring, and Living in a Foreign Country
Speaker: Koichi Tanaka(Director, LIGHTLINKS)
Part 19: Sunday, January 11, 2026 20:00-21:00
Bringing Japanese Childcare to the World. 20 years of never giving up and a heart that continues to believe in the answer"
Speaker: Hitomi Hitomi, President, Hiyoko Global Education Group Pty Ltd / Global Early Childhood Education Consultant / Education Entrepreneur, Mother of 3, Living in Australia
Session 20: Sunday, January 25, 2026 20:00-21:00
Living by Music - My Story Playing in the World
Speaker: Masami Nagai (Principal Contrabassist, Hong Kong Sinfonietta)
The 21st session Sunday, February 1, 2026 10:00-11:00
Balancing Childcare and Creative Work: The Realities of Continuing an Artist's Career
Speaker: Kirika Jorin (Photographer)
The 22nd session Sunday, February 15, 2026 20:00-21:00
Be water - by chance or by chance? Mind, Body, and Spirit - Flexibility of Integrated Strengths Creates the Future
Speaker: Shinobu Noda (Free Working Dancer)
23rd Session Sunday, March 1, 2026 20:00-21:00
Raising Happy Working Children in the Age of AI
Speaker: Yumika Fujiwara Elizabeth (HR, foreign company)
Session 24: Sunday, March 15, 2026 20:00-21:00
The Power of Connecting Education and Life: Family Dialogue Leads to "Investing in Life
Speakers: Dr. Morimori & Junko
(Education Facilitator, Japanese language teacher)
Session 25: Sunday, March 29, 2026 10:00-11:00
Experience and pain, that's why we can make it work. An 'empathetic career' created in North America"
Speaker: Kanako Laird (Bilingual Holistic Health Coach)
26th Session Sunday, April 12, 2026 20:00-21:00
Concluding Speech: "Parents and Children: The Power of the Future, Not Academic Achievement or English Proficiency
Speaker: Dean Chikako (Okinawa Host Family Organizer)
Betty Mengbo (Language Education Researcher, Eiken Teaching Material Developer)
Speaker Details
Keinori Oku
AsiaWise Professionals Co-Founder
Keinori Oku/AsiaWise Professionals Co-Founder
Mr. Oku graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology with a Master's degree in Science and Engineering in 2000, and joined the Intellectual Property Department of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
In 2006, he was transferred to the company's licensing department, where he participated in licensing negotiations using the patent rights he was in charge of obtaining. After retiring from Panasonic, he has been traveling around India and other ASEAN countries since 2013, and founded AsiaWise Group in January 2018.
◆Sagiri Ochi (Ayagiri Ochi)
Sex Coach: Sexual Wellness Coach
Ayagiri Ochi / Sex Coach
Since 2007, Ayagiri Ochi has been living in Barcelona, Spain. She has worked for 11 years as a medical interpreter and treatment coordinator at an assisted reproductive health clinic, gaining a deeper understanding of sexual and reproductive health.
At an academy in the U.S., she studied a method that combines sexology and coaching, and is now offering "sex education that nurtures the ability for both adults and children to live their own lives" in both Japanese and Spanish.
She is the author of "Magical Sex Education for Mothers and Children to Achieve Their Own Happiness" and a mother of two children, and practices sex education at home every day.
Official website
◆Daisuke Abe
Director, Brunswick Group
Daisuke Abe / Director, Brunswick Group
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Daisuke Abe joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After training in Washington, D.C., and working at the General Foreign Policy Office and the Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia, he moved to a foreign consulting firm. After working in corporate organizational transformation and leadership development, he moved to New York and was in charge of setting up a medical business for Asia at a university hospital. Currently, he works as a business consultant.
From choosing a career path in search of the right answer to a dialogue about creating one's own life.
In order to find "what you really want" beyond deviation and stability, it is important to look beyond the options in front of you and have an axis of "what you value in life.
In this seminar, we will talk about "what you can get and what you can't see by chasing after the "right answer," based on our own experiences. Let's reconsider the "foundation of how to live" together as parents and children.
Aya Kubozumi
Freelance UX & Design Research
Specialist NTT East
Visiting Researcher, Regional Recycling Mirai Research Institute
Aya Kubozumi/Visiting Researcher at the Mirai Research Institute for Regional Recycling
After graduating from a private university with a law degree, she worked in the new business division of a precision equipment manufacturer, In 2018, she and her family moved to the U.S. for her husband's career change.
In 2022, she returned to Japan to work as a senior UX researcher in the product design team at Mercari Inc. D. from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo.
◆Koichi Tanaka
Director, LIGHTLINKS Lighting Designer
Koichi Tanaka/Director, LIGHTLINKS Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer, born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1972.
After graduating from Keio University with a Bachelor of Science in Science and Technology, Tanaka went to England to complete a master's degree in lighting design at University College London. After returning to Japan, he worked for a domestic lighting manufacturer for three years. He then moved to Italy, where he worked for four years as an in-house designer at the Milan branch of a German lighting manufacturer.
He also worked as a freelance designer there, and returned to Japan after living in Italy for a total of eight years. After returning to Japan, he worked as a director of a domestic lighting design office for 3 years, and in 2011, he started his own lighting design office in Hong Kong.
This year marks his 15th year living in Hong Kong. He currently has corporate offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and is involved in a wide variety of projects throughout Asia, including Japan.
LIGHTLINKS
◆Hitomi ◆President
Representative Director, Hiyoko Global Education Group Pty Ltd
Global Early Childhood Education Consultant
Education Entrepreneur Australian mother of 3 children
Japanese educator who practices "education that builds bridges around the world".
Director of Hitomi Preschool / Educational Entrepreneur
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Hitomi has been involved in early childhood education in Japan and Australia for over 25 years, nurturing children's "zest for life" across cultural, institutional, and language barriers. In Brisbane, she established Australia's only Japanese immersion preschool, "Hiyoko Global Kids", establishing a community-based multicultural educational model. She has also made her mark as an entrepreneur and is currently preparing for a second preschool.
Based on her real-life experiences of overcoming the challenges of raising children overseas, working, and starting a business, while combining them with her life as a single mother, she embodies a new role model of "education x entrepreneurship" and "mother x social entrepreneur".
In recent years, she has been focusing on "creating a system to cross borders through education" by training childcare workers, studying abroad, and exchanging volunteers between Japan and Australia, and is in the process of incorporating an NPO and collaborating with a university research institute. Through her own experiences, she continues to embody and communicate "how Japanese people living abroad can utilize their identity and "fight it out" in their own way.
Hiyoko Global Educational Group Pty Ltd CEO Hiyoko Global Kids Mcdowall
◆Masami Nagai
Principal Contrabassist, Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Masami Nagai / Principal Contrabassist, Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Born in Kobe, Japan. She studied piano and voice from childhood and graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University with a degree in Music in the Art Course of the Faculty of Education, Class G. She also received a diploma from Toho Gakuen School of Music. After completing a diploma course in contrabass at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Performing Arts, she completed her postgraduate studies at the same school.
He was active as a freelance jazz, pops, and orchestra player mainly in the Kanto area, but decided to study abroad because he wanted to work overseas.
While studying at the Graz University of the Arts in Austria, he was invited to join the Hong Kong Sinfonietta as a guest principal player, and since 2008 he has been the principal contrabass player of the Sinfonietta.
Currently, while traveling around the world performing in orchestras and chamber music ensembles, she also teaches piano and rhythmic music at her own music school, which she started in Hong Kong in 2011.
She is the mother of two children born in 2011 and 2014.
◆Kirika Jorin
Photographer
Kirika Jorin / Photographer
After graduating from university, worked at an advertising agency in Osaka. After gaining experience in the field of advertising production, she moved to the U.S. and entered graduate school to obtain a master's degree. In New York, after working for a TV production company, she moved to an advertising photographer's studio and established her own studio while being involved in practical work.
While working in the field of advertising photography, he also participated in artist-in-residence programs in Japan and abroad as an art photographer. She has produced and presented her work on the international stage, pursuing an expression that crosses genres and domains.
After the birth of her first child in 2010, she refrained from activities involving long-term residency and shifted to a creative style based at home. Although she has somewhat distanced herself from photography, she continues her expressive activities by producing art books and exhibiting at book fairs.
In addition to her experience in various media such as photography, video, and art book production, she continues to search for a flexible creative style that responds to changes in life stages, and hopes to share her real-life tips and perspectives with those who are struggling to balance creative work and daily life.
◆Shinobu Noda
Dancer who works freely
Works for an investment company, translator and interpreter.
Shinobu Noda/ investment company employee, translator and interpreter
She has worked as a belly dancer and is currently a belly dance instructor.
She majored in archaeology at the University of the Ryukyus and obtained a curatorial degree. After graduation, she expanded her career from sales clerk to sales representative at a small- to medium-sized corporate manufacturer. 2008, she was stationed at a subsidiary in Hong Kong, where she was shocked to see women in top and management positions. She then took the opportunity of her return order to change jobs locally. She worked as a secretary and interpreter for the management of the Hong Kong subsidiary of a listed company, where she closely observed the work of executives from around the world and was involved in gaming law and licensing in the casino industry.
After moving to a small investment company, he participated in the launch of an online casino venture. The translation business he started during the Corona period spread by word of mouth, and he continues to receive requests from Japanese listed companies and Hong Kong legal and real estate related interpreters.
Belly dancing is her life's work, and since moving to Hong Kong in 2008, she has continued to perform at restaurants, bars, and corporate and private parties. She is currently teaching and organizing charity events to support minorities in Hong Kong.
◆Yumika Fujiwara Elizabeth
Foreign Human Resources
Elizabeth Yumika Fujiwara / Foreign Affiliated Human Resources
With roots in Japan and Peru, Yumika is currently working as a Sr. HR Business Partner in the IT department of a global organization of a foreign company.
She has extensive experience in human resource strategy, employee engagement, and cross-cultural management in diverse industries, including retail, entertainment, and construction.
"Blending career and parenting in your own way."
In this era of change, she struggles daily to find the "just right relationship" between technology and humanity.
◆Morimori Sensei
Educational Facilitator
Morimori Sensei / Educational Facilitator
Graduated from Chuo University. Father of two children. Worked in the education business overseas for 20 years in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
After returning to Japan, he worked for private companies in Tokyo and Kyoto, and is currently involved in education administration in Hokkaido, taking on local education issues.
Versatile educational activist, photographer, and video creator with 24,000 X-followers, GoogleMaps Local Guide Level 10, and 700 million photo views.
◆Junko
Japanese language teacher
Junko/Japanese language teacher
Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Mother of two children. Spent her elementary school years in California, U.S.A. Moved to Hong Kong in 1999 and worked as a Japanese language teacher.
In 1999, she moved to Hong Kong, where she worked as a Japanese language teacher and managed a Japanese mothers' community and playgroup. 2011, she founded the Hong Kong Japanese Supplementary School and has been managing the school for 10 years. She is currently working as a Japanese language teacher and English teacher.
◆Kanako Laird
Bilingual Holistic Health Coach
Laird Kanako / Bilingual Holistic Health Coach
Lived in Canada and USA for 20 years. She is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Canadian Certified Holistic Nutritionist specializing in emotional eating.
Despite suffering with food and appearance for over 20 years since her teenage years, she studied psychology, nutrition, and body knowledge in North America and now provides trusted support across countries and cultures, bilingual in English and Japanese.
She has turned her own experiences and pain into "work that helps others" based on "trust as a human being," not on her educational background or title.
Kanna Laird International LLC
About the host station
◆Chikako Dean
Okinawa Host Family Hostess, English Bilingual Education Researcher
Okinawa Host Family
https://oki-hostfamily.com/mobile/
Okinawa Host Family Instagram
Recipe for English Language Education and Brain Development to create "Strengths" in English
https://line.me/R/ti/p/@197egzvg?oat_content=url&ts=01301749
◆Real Mengo Betty
Language education researcher and English test material developer
English Language Education Researcher and Developer of English Language Proficiency Test Materials
In cooperation with and in no particular order
Hiyoko Global Education Group Pty Ltd
Aimu
Kanna Laird International LLC
YKManagement Inc.
NEXT2035 official website
The first seminar information
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000086978.html
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