Inside a financial institution
Four teams worked mostly online on a company case, then presented their proposals to the host’s corporate sales team.
International and Japanese students, working side by side on real problems in Japanese workplaces. What they do becomes a record — and that record is what universities and employers can finally see.
Japan hires international graduates on language scores and university names, then loses them within a year. Universities are asked to prove their support works, but the only evidence available is a placement rate.
Neither number says anything about the thing that actually decides whether someone stays: what a student does in the week after something goes wrong.
TC PASSPORT records that week. Over two months on a real job site, a student’s attempts, setbacks and recoveries accumulate into something specific enough to read.
Finance, traditional crafts, hospitality, rail and retail. Host company names are published as each company gives permission; until then they appear by industry.
Four teams worked mostly online on a company case, then presented their proposals to the host’s corporate sales team.
You will stand behind the counter at a World Heritage site.
Applications closed on 12 October. 30 places, with selection.
Mixed teams research a real problem, propose a fix, then test it on site.
The same six appear in the app, in the employer view and on this site, so a university reading “what can we develop?” and an employer reading “what do we want to see before hiring?” are looking at the same thing.
Can they find the words the other person will actually understand — and go back after the day it failed?
Can they say “I don’t know” out loud, and use the answer the next day?
Do they reach for work nobody assigned them?
Can they rearrange roles around each other’s strengths so nobody is left behind?
Do they stop at “it didn’t work”, or write down what was missing?
Can they define a real problem, research it, propose a fix and carry it as far as a trial?
Universities and employers are welcome to write to us directly. Students in Japan can reach us on LINE.
