Jacqueline Okuma

jaCqueline Tessier okuma Director Jacqueline Teissier Okuma es fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva de Jackie & Partners LLC. Jackie & Partnerstrabaja con artistas de primera fila de todo el mundo, con museos y organizaciones diplomáticas de Japón y del extranjero para producir y gestionar eventos artísticos y culturales. Sus áreas de trabajo incluyen el intercambio cultural, […]

Opening of the Multilingual Volunteer Guide Practice Salon!

Let’s express the “Omotenashi (Japanese hospitality)” to foreigners visiting Japan!

First “language gym” for seniors opens in Japan!

Through the “language gymnasium” for seniors, students will be able to achieve surprisingly fast results in a familiar and mutually respectful environment, with the support of classmates and native foreign teachers.

SDG 3: GOOD HEALTH + WELL-BEING

We believe in building a society in which all generations are supported in order to have a voice and access to educational and cultural opportunities.
That is how IKIGAI DAI contributes to the fulfillment of the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Chie Ishida

CHIE ISHIDA, PhD Academic Advisor Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Ritsumeikan University and obtained a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at the same university. After being a postdoctoral fellow with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, she is now an Associate Professor at the School […]

Santiago Rodríguez

SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, PhD Teacher Graduated from the Department of Italian Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he holds a Masters in Linguistics and a PhD in Language Science from Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He has been teaching at several universities and cultural centers in Japan for more than fifteen years. He has […]

Midori Inoue

MIDORI INOUE, MA Director Born in Buenos Aires as the daughter of an Argentine father and a Japanese mother, she grew up in a multicultural environment, fascinated by the contrast she perceived between the country where she lived until she was 28 years old and the Japanese customs and traditions that she acquired through the […]

Ander Iriarte

Ander Iriarte, MA Course cooRdinator and teacher Graduated from the Department of English at Osaka University of Education, obtained a Masters in Linguistics at the Spanish Department of Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Experienced as a translator (Japanese-English-Spanish) and as a Spanish and English teacher. Graduated from the Department of English at Osaka University […]

Montserrat Sanz

MONTSERRAT SANZ, PhD Director Department of English at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She holds a Masters in Linguistics and a PhD in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester (NY). Full-professor at the Department of Spanish of Kobe City University of Foreign Studies since 1996, she has coordinated the Spanish […]