2024-11-06T03:41:24-00:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 311368445 Japan United States Teaching Inc % Hideo Ishikawa JAPA 6144532081 4354 Pahoa Ave UNIT 10701 Honolulu HI 96816 Hideo Ishikawa President 6144532081 2024-10-29 false 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z JUST Institute Hideo Ishikawa 4999 Kahala Avenue APT 268 Honolulu HI 96816 541576 false X www.just-inst.org X 1992 IA An international school designed to train students to be bilingual and bicultural, with a focus on both the United States and Japan. 2 0 7 0 0 363602 384801 43425 15116 19350 378718 447576 0 0 196359 171201 0 0 194714 148124 391073 319325 -12355 128251 913946 984294 9772 309772 904174 674522 The program is designed to assist Japanese students in adapting to the U.S. educational system while helping them maintain their Japanese language skills. Additionally, it aims to introduce domestic students and those from other countries excluding Japan to the Japanese language, culture and an overview of the Japanese educational system. true true 157136 192460 Supplemental academic program for 6th to 12th pupils/students to become US-Japan bilingual and bicultural. As they usually belong to the public schools here in US, this program holds classes aftershool in the weekdays and Saturdays. We focus on Japanese, English and Essay and STEM subjects. We help the students adapt the US environment just arriving from Japan and also help the students prepare for applying both US and Japanese colleges. We teach them at our schools as same as on line by using Skype. 101886 135200 Preschool and Kindergarten Programs are certified by the State of Ohio. Even still during COVID-19, we held two concerts at Columbus City parks, which were open to the public, and had a pumpkin picks tour as usual. 60303 57220 Conducting Nation English Language tests in Ohio for TOEIC run by ETS and Eiken by a Japanese government-authorized organizationEigo Kentei Kyokai. We also run a few preparatory language programs for preK-5 in this program. The Ohio State University offers testing sites on campus for our school, and Japanese textbooks are supplied from the Consulate of JapanDetroit. 319325 true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 true 7 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 2 0 false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false X Hideo Ishikawa 6144532081 4999 Kahala Avenue Apt 268 Honolulu HI 96816 Hideo Ishikawa President and Director 016.00 001.00 X X 47814 0 0 Yumi Ishikawa Secretary and Director 010.00 000.50 X X 23814 0 0 71628 false false false Tuition and Testing Fees 611710 384801 384801 19350 19350 19350 137425 94000 43425 43425 447576 0 0 0 0 71629 71629 65265 65265 0 0 10136 10136 24171 24171 27455 27455 1384 1384 142 142 0 0 0 381 381 18692 18692 9623 9623 0 66333 66333 14208 14208 0 0 0 0 4521 4521 2235 2235 Tuition Refund 3150 3150 0 319325 319325 0 0 382580 197176 3449 450000 249558 194558 131278 173113 30553 147081 142560 913946 984294 9772 9772 300000 9772 309772 X 904174 674522 904174 674522 913946 984294 128251 -357903 X false X false false false X false 124330 30553 93777 48783 48783 142560 Financial derivatives and other financial products Closely-held equity interests Federal income taxes true true true true true true true false false false false false false false true Hideo Ishikawa President Preparation to Hawaii school facility X 300000 300000 true true 300000 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b Semi-monthly meetings with Directors occasionally including Program Directors were held regularly to share updates on all activities detailed in Form 990. We focused particularly on daily class activities, hiring, governance, expense control, and the new liaison office in Tokyo. A Tokyo office was established in January 2023, sending three Ohio educators. We are preparing an official start from 2025. Additionally, we have held monthly directors meetings to ensure seamless coordination between our Ohio operations and the preliminary activities in Hawaii, where we are establishing an academic program for a middle school, high school, and college-level supplemental school. We currently have facilities in Ohio and are working diligently to create a comparable educational environment in Honolulu, Hawaii. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 None. Our school is the only organization in Ohio and the three adjacent states, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky, edicated to bilingual education in Japanese and English. As our work is unique, we remain in an exploratory phase to best serve our community. While continually improving the quality of our daily educational services, we maintain open communication between teaching staff and directors to address issues collaboratively.Governing Documents We created a mini flyer to introduce our activities to the public, which is distributed as a PDF. Additionally, our educational seminars in Hawaii were promoted through radio broadcasts on KZOO AM1210 and a local community newspaper, Lighthouse. We have two websites our main homepage, http//www.just-inst.org, and http//rainbowmath.web.fc2.com, which provides information about our conferences and demo sessions focused on bilingual math training for middle and high school levels.Currently, we run three major outreach activities 1 semi-annual concerts featuring bilingual preschoolers and K-5 students in the City of Dublin Training Room, Ohio 2 five educational conferences held in Fall 2018, three in Dublin, Ohio, one in Cincinnati, Kentucky, and one in Honolulu, Hawaii and 3 administration of two major national English proficiency exams the TOEIC, for business professionals, administered by ETS, and the Eiken, a general English language test organized by the Japan-based Eigo Kentei Kyokai. Our goal is to increase the population of academically qualified bilinguals in Japanese and English, fostering connections between Japan and the U.S. in higher education and international business. Our total number of attendees is among the largest in the Midwest. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Conflict of Interest Policy In our 27 years of operation, we have never encountered any concerns or conflicts regarding conflicts of interest. Instead, all faculty members and parents of students understand that ours is the only opportunity for bilingual and bicultural education in Japanese and English in the state of Ohio.