The Partnership aims to accelerate the HR globalization of Japanese corporations, and also to make IUJ become a leading graduate school in Asia. To achieve these goals, IUJ is partnering with Japanese corporations and will jointly begin the following activities from February 2011:

1. GRADUATE EDUCATION
   Providing customized programs to company employees with a faculty supervisor assigned to each employee


2. PLACEMENT
   Partner companies and IUJ collaborating to promote internship placement of IUJ students and employment of IUJ graduates in key roles in order to foster a growth in business activities across borders


3. TRAINING
   Training company employees in programs customized to the needs of companies for management and leadership development, as well as language training (English for Japanese employees, and Japanese for non-Japanese employees)


4. JOINT RESEARCH
   Promoting joint research programs on global management issues

In order to implement these activities, the following measures will be established:

• Partner corporations will assign a Partnership personnel administrator, and IUJ will appoint a faculty member and a staff member for each corporation
• A Chief HR Officer (CHO) Network will be created to provide a platform to promote globalization and to exchange knowledge and information

The President of IUJ, Masakatsu Mori, said "Although Japanese corporations have accumulated substantial funds and technologies, there is a pressing and immediate need for global leaders who can compete efficiently in this multipolar world. I would like to make IUJ the center of global leader development in order to help Japanese corporations, and Japan as a whole, to advance strategic growth."

Regarding the launch of the Partnership, a number of corporate executives issued messages of support:

• Mr. Fumio Otsubo, President, Panasonic Corporation
  "Panasonic has been sending our employees to IUJ for the past 28 years since its foundation ? to fill our needs for well-trained global human resources. With this newly developed Partnership, we would like to actively promote placement, employee training, and joint research projects further."


• Mr. Yasuchika Hasegawa, President, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Vice Chairman & President, KEIZAI DOYUKAI
  "The Japanese business community is prepared to support IUJ as a global human resource training hub and hope for IUJ's further advancement. Also, our company expects the Partnership with IUJ to promote our globalization, especially in the Asian markets."


• Mr. Tadashi Yanai, Chairman, President and CEO, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
  "The success of UNIQLO relies on how well we can train a large number of store managers. We would like to collaborate with IUJ in training our employees in order to prepare them to work in the global arena. I expect to see IUJ train both our Japanese managers before they receive assignments overseas, as well as our overseas managers (who have been recruited locally) before they are placed in stores in Japan."

We are very happy to have the following corporations as our partners:

List of Partner Corporations (As of December 12, 2011)
(In alphabetical order)

1. Accenture Japan Ltd.
2. All Nippon Airways, Co., Ltd.
3. Astellas Pharma, Inc.
4. CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
5. COSMO OIL Co., Ltd.
6. DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
7. Development Bank of Japan Inc.
8. East Japan Railway Company
9. FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
10. Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
11. FUJITSU LIMITED
12. GE Japan Corporation
13. Hitachi, Ltd.
14. IBM Japan, Ltd.
15. INTELLIGENCE LTD.
16. Japan Tobacco Inc.
17. Kao Corporation
18. Komatsu Ltd.
19. Microsoft Japan Company, Limited.
20. Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
21. Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
22. Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
23. NAMICS Corporation
24. NIKON CORPORATION
25. NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
26. Oracle Corporation Japan
27. ORIX Corporation
28. Panasonic Corporation
29. Pfizer Japan Inc.
30. SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
31. SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.
32. Sumitomo Corporation
33. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
34. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
35. TEIJIN LIMITED
36. TERUMO CORPORATION, Japan
37. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (TEPCO)
38. TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
39. Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc.
40. YAMATO TRANSPORT CO., LTD.
41. Yokogawa Electric Corporation

* Niigata Prefectural Government has signed a "Letter of Agreement for Collaboration".

• Develops business and intercultural skills necessary for management in the global and multi-culture business environment
• Instructors are IUJ’s MBA professors
• IUJ's graduate students will be joining the sessions as facilitators
• Good opportunities to develop cross-industrial networks
• Medium of instruction is English

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Intensive English Program (IEP)
July 11 - September 2, 2011

• Eight-week program, offered from mid-July to early-September
• Develops reading/writing and oral communication skills
• Adult international students with work experiences and qualified/experienced teachers
• Small class size (12 students/class)
• Develops cross-culture awareness and leadership skills