{"id":560,"date":"2025-05-30T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/?page_id=560"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:05:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About IEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/about_1-300x76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/about_1-300x76.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/about_1-1024x260.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/about_1-768x195.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/about_1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The International Education Center was established in April 1947 under the name \u201cInternational Education and Culture Association\u201d and was approved as an incorporated foundation by the Minister of Education in August 1948, in order to incorporate the Japan-America Conversation Institute established in 1945, and to achieve the ideals of the institute at the time of its establishment. In order to achieve the ideals of the school's founding, it was necessary to promote various social educational and cultural programs in addition to the school's educational programs.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, in June 1953, the name of the corporation was changed to \u201cInternational Education Center\u201d so that it could diversify these projects and further promote international educational and cross-cultural understanding.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2012, with the enactment of the Three Laws on Reform of the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation System in 2008, the foundation changed its name from the foundation under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to the \u201cGeneral Incorporated Foundation International Education Center\u201d under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet Office, and has been in operation since then.<\/p>\n<p>The main activities to promote international educational exchange and cross-cultural understanding are the \u201cJapan-America Student Conference,\u201d established in 1934 (supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the U.S. Embassy, etc.), and the \u201cJapanese Speech Contest in Japanese,\u201d held annually since 1960 (supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, etc.; broadcast by NHK).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, our educational programs are the operation of the Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin, which offers a variety of English language education programs, and the Japanese Language Institute, which was established in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Although the organization's name and status of our organization have changed in this way, what we have consistently practiced from the time of its establishment to the present day is to \u201cpromote international education and cross-cultural understanding\u201d and to contribute to the \u201cdevelopment of global human resources\u201d through such projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Education Center was established in April 1947 under the name \u201cInternational Education and C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.iec-nichibei.or.jp\/?page_id=24","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-560","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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