Children locked out of school
0million
UNESCO / World Bank, 2022. More than twice the population of Japan ─ children left standing outside the classroom door.
Founding team wanted ─ Co-founders, three seats open
Every child.
Deserves a world-class teacher.
250 million children are locked out of school.
Another 1 billion are inside, learning almost nothing.
We promise world-class education to every child on Earth ─
live, online, anywhere a signal can reach. This is All Happy.
- 200+live classes / month
- 180+certified teachers
- 2,600children already learning
- 96%retention rate
THE PROBLEM
- 0M Children locked out of school
- 0B In school, but learning nothing
OUR ANSWER
Free public education, from the walls of a building.
Teachers × Technology
── Like YouTube, but live.
Taught by the world's best teachers. Free for every child.
This is All Happy.
Prime Minister's Commendation ─ Japan Youth Heritage Award
NIKKEI THE PITCH SOCIAL ─ Grand Prize
JICA Field Pilots
Cambridge IGCSE-aligned Curriculum
ICC Summit Speaker
Japan Metaverse Awards
32 partner schools — current teachers behind every lesson
Prime Minister's Commendation ─ Japan Youth Heritage Award
NIKKEI THE PITCH SOCIAL ─ Grand Prize
JICA Field Pilots
Cambridge IGCSE-aligned Curriculum
ICC Summit Speaker
Japan Metaverse Awards
32 partner schools — current teachers behind every lesson
01What's happening on Earth
A world where the place
you were born decides who you become.
Children who cannot read with comprehension
0billion
By age 10, they cannot read a simple story. The literacy gap becomes a life-choice gap, for a lifetime.
Why education doesn't reach them
Conflict · Poverty · Geography ·
Refugee status · Disability · School refusal
An education built around a "building" cannot reach half of the world's children. The premise is what we will change.
── This is where we are headed.
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Philippines / Remote island · 12
"It's a two-hour boat ride from home to school. I leave at 4 AM. I've been searching for a way to learn from home — for years."
── A middle-school student (Philippines) -
Malaysia / Rural village · 10
"No one in my village can teach English. The words of the outside world ─ I don't know them yet."
── A primary-school student (Malaysia) -
Thailand / Mountain village · 14
"When the monsoon comes, the mountain road to school washes away. I want my next lesson on my phone, at home."
── A middle-school student (Thailand) -
New Zealand / South Island rural · 12
"There are only three kids in my year at school. I want to learn with friends from all over the world."
── A primary-school student (New Zealand)
We are going to change this.
Free public education from the walls of "the building".
02Our Vision
Wherever you are born, you can travel the world.
All Happy is education ─ unlocked.
Lifted out of "the building", and reborn as a new education infrastructure.
Built on the world's first methodology to make public education truly portable,
powered by 32 partner schools and 180+ certified teachers,
delivered as an Online World School that promises
world-class education to every child on Earth.
◐Anytime
24/7. The moment a child wants to learn, the door opens. No timezones. No fixed timetables.
◇Anywhere
From refugee camps to remote-island bedrooms. Wherever there's a signal, the classroom appears.
✺At world-class quality
96% retention. 97% satisfaction. Built and taught by 32 schools of working teachers ─ for real.
03The Product
YouTube,
but for live lessons. We are building it.
A street of classrooms, always open.
Pick a teacher. Pick a subject. Pick a time. Walk into a live class.
After the bell, the next classroom is your friends from everywhere on Earth.
F.01
A live river of classes, opening anywhere
Like YouTube, you can step in at any moment. But it's live. Your teacher hears you. The child is never just an audience.
F.02
A globally accepted curriculum ─ Cambridge IGCSE aligned
An age 6–18 framework aligned with Cambridge IGCSE. Wherever a child takes our lessons, the learning travels with them ─ to universities, anywhere on Earth.
F.03
AI as a study partner — not a substitute brain
From watch logs, missteps, and the shape of a child's questions, AI updates their personal map of learning. AI doesn't think for them. It draws the lines that help them think for themselves.
F.04
A second classroom, after the lesson ends
The real magic happens after the bell. Voice and text communities with classmates worldwide, a support line between parents and teachers, and mentoring from graduates.
04This is not a thought experiment
Already, 2,600 children
are learning with us, today.
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NIJIN Academy
From school refusal, to the world.
A new shape for learning, built with 32 partner schools.
- 2,600+ students enrolled
- 200+ teachers
- 96% attendance retention
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Jugyo-Terrace
A teaching-improvement platform for working teachers.
Used daily by 1,100+ current teachers in Japan.
- 1,100+ teachers
- 97% satisfaction
- 32 partner schools
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Awards & Partnerships
Trust placed in us by Japan and the world ─ implemented every day.
- NIKKEI THE PITCH SOCIAL Grand Prize
- Prime Minister's Commendation
- ICC Summit / JICA Field Pilots
Photos: NIJIN Inc. / PR TIMES
※ Placeholder images. Final selection ─ children × online interaction ─ to be curated by NIJIN's quality team.
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My son was being worn down by the controlling style of Japanese education.
Here ─ in this place full of diverse classmates and cultures from everywhere ─
he has regained his energy, in a way that astonishes me. He laughs again.
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── A parent, NIJIN Academy
05Market & Opportunity
The next YouTube
will be born in education.
EdTech is growing at >10% annually, globally.
With Starlink-class satellite internet, the distribution of education is — for the first time in history — open to every child.
The largest empty seat is here: the platform that delivers the world's best teaching at near-zero marginal cost, to everyone.
① Starlink has opened a classroom in every village
Low-earth-orbit satellites now reach the geographies that fiber and cell towers never did. The children who were never reachable, are reachable for the first time.
② AI has freed the scarcity of great teachers
A single great teacher can now scale, infinitely. Personalization, grading and feedback run as the teacher's second arm — done by AI.
③ Gen Z and Gen α already learn from video
YouTube is the largest school on Earth. But it has no teachers, no friends, no graduation. We return all three.
06Roadmap
By 2036,
100M MAU.
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2026 — 2027
Phase 1 / PoC ─ "Prove delivery"
Pilots with JICA, local NGOs and Starlink. From refugee camps, remote islands and homes ─ first 100 children, then MAU 10,000.
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2027 — 2029
Phase 2 / PMF ─ "Stand next to public education"
Begin in ASEAN. Expand B2G contracts. MAU 1 million. The outline of "the next YouTube of education" — implemented.
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2029 — 2031
Series A ─ "Become infrastructure"
MAU 1M. Evolve to a TVer-class delivery layer. Run alongside the national curricula of partner countries.
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2031 — 2036
Expansion ─ "Become a culture"
MAU 100 million. A cultural presence on the scale of GAFA or Duolingo. 2036 revenue target ─ $5.5 billion.
07Sustainable structure
Make "free for every child"
pay for itself.
Even when a child cannot pay, the system keeps going.
Three revenue engines support one another, and together they support "free".
B2G
Partnerships with national governments
Aligned with ministries of education, municipalities, and ODA budgets such as JICA. Embedded as a "supplement or substitute for public education".
- Municipal pilots begin FY2025
- ASEAN expansion follows
B2B
Corporate CSR / ESG sponsorship
The same feel as advertising on YouTube ─ companies "gift" lessons to the world's children. Directly reportable as SDG impact.
- "1 lesson = 1 company's gift" model
- Co-produced content
B2C
Freemium
Free for the child. Premium for parents — reports, coaching, English support, monthly.
- Parent subscriptions / gifts
- Alumni community
08Team & Co-Creation
No one changes the world alone.
Together, we open.
All Happy is not a single company's product.
35 teammates, 200+ teachers, 2,600 students and their families,
plus the world's governments, corporations, and NGOs ─ all stand on the same circle.
That is our design.
- 35+ The NIJIN team Former teachers, child-care workers, athletes, salarypeople. Many backgrounds, one mission.
- 200+ Teachers & mentors 32 partner schools of working teachers, plus expert guest teachers in every field.
- 2,600 Students, learning today Real users, learning every day in NIJIN Academy. Not concepts — children.
- 1,100+ Teachers in our network Co-creating the teaching itself through our Jugyo-Terrace platform.
Co-creation partners
- JICAField pilots overseas
- Cambridge IGCSEGlobal curriculum standard
- Starlink (planned)Delivery to low-bandwidth regions
- 32 public partner schoolsWorking teachers behind the lessons
- Cabinet Office of JapanYouth Heritage Award
- NIKKEI THE PITCHSOCIAL Grand Prize
- ICC SummitSelected for catapult
- Japan Metaverse AwardsWinner
The seat you take is in the center of this circle.
Founding members co-create as equals — with every actor in the world.
09Founding team wanted
One of your days
can change a child's whole life.
We are looking for three co-founders who will take All Happy from Japan, to the world.
Not employees — co-conspirators in rewriting the global landscape of education.
CTO / Founding Engineer
Equity ~ 8%
Design the technical foundation of "the next YouTube", from zero.
- Real-time lesson delivery architecture (WebRTC / HLS-LL / CDN strategy) at millions of concurrent connections
- Personalization engine and data pipeline (LLM × learning logs)
- UX for low-bandwidth, low-spec, offline-first devices ─ PWA, edge-light clients
CFO / COO
Equity ~ 4%
Translate "free for every child" into a $1B-scale business structure.
- Seed through Series A and B — equity, impact, and hybrid capital design
- Three-axis revenue engine (B2G / B2B / B2C) built from the unit economics up
- Organization, finance, legal and governance design for global expansion
Head of Partnerships
Equity ~ 3%
Take the seat next to public education ─ with the world's governments.
- Alliances with JICA, national ministries of education, and UNICEF / UNHCR-class agencies
- Lead B2G deployment into refugee camps, remote islands, and public-school supplements
- Long-term sponsorship co-design with global CSR / ESG / impact-investment departments
What we promise to our founding members
① Founder equity (Founder Stock)
② Decision rights over product & strategy
③ The right to build lessons with 32 schools of working teachers
④ The actual feeling of moving the future of children — worldwide
10A letter from the founder
Ten years ago,
I was in Guatemala.
Guatemala, 10 years ago
I'm Tatsuro Hoshino, founder of NIJIN.
Ten years ago, fresh out of university, I joined JICA — the Japan International Cooperation Agency — and was deployed to a village in Guatemala. I was 23.
In that village, I met a truth that has never left me:
A child's future is decided by their education — before the child can choose.
On a street corner, a twelve-year-old boy was polishing shoes to help his family eat. His name was Pedro. One afternoon, looking up from his brush, he told me:
"I really want to study."
"I really want to have friends."
"I really want to travel the world."
And the future waiting for Pedro was this:
A shoeshine boy. Who would grow into a shoeshine man. Forever.
Because one thing — education — never reached him.
I came home empty-handed. I didn't have the power, then, to open his future.
Ten years passed.
I became a public-school teacher. I quit teaching. And in 2022, I founded NIJIN.
Today, 2,500 children and 1,100 teachers learn with us across Japan. Children who had stopped going to school log in every morning and laugh again. Our attendance-recognition rate ─ 97% ─ leads the country's alternative-school field.
And now — finally — I am preparing to meet Pedro again.
Not to visit.
To deliver.
I can only fly to Guatemala a few times a year. But the world's best teachers can — every single day, in real time, through satellite internet — reach Pedro's exact corner of the world. Now, in the age of 6G and NTN.
This is All Happy.
Built on satellite internet (NTN, in partnership with SoftBank). Anchored to international credentials — IGCSE, IB — that travel with the child. Run on a methodology that, for the first time in the world, made public education portable.
I want Pedro to keep polishing shoes by day, take our lessons by evening, and end up at a university anywhere on Earth.
There are 250 million Pedros, alive in the world today.
One billion children, in school but learning nothing.
And in Japan, 350,000 children who cannot go back to school.
Make the world happy.
Make Japan happy.
That is our flag.
Earnings from the world will fund Japanese children who cannot afford alternative school today. Education will not be priced ─ not anywhere.
Ten years from now, I want one sentence to be said about us:
"All Happy — the school that made every child on Earth happy — was born from one Japanese hand."
My journey begins with Pedro. And it returns to Pedro.
It cannot be done alone.
A seat is open, and I am waiting.
Tatsuro Hoshino
Founder & CEO, NIJIN Inc. / Former JICA Volunteer (Guatemala)
11Frequently asked questions
10 things
to know before you apply.
The most common questions from founding-member candidates, investors and corporate partners.
Anything else? Use the application form — the free-text field is open.
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What is All Happy, exactly?
All Happy (NIJIN ACADEMY ALL HAPPY) is an Online World School delivering high-quality real-time lessons to the 250 million children locked out of school. Think "YouTube, but live" ─ combining satellite internet (NTN), AI personalization, and Cambridge IGCSE-aligned curriculum, designed to reach every child on Earth.
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How is All Happy related to NIJIN, NIJIN Academy and Jugyo-Terrace?
The parent company is NIJIN Inc. (founded April 2022, CEO: Tatsuro Hoshino). Its Japan businesses include NIJIN Academy (an alternative school with 2,600+ students) and Jugyo-Terrace (a 1,100+ teacher network with 97% satisfaction). All Happy is the new global business taking that proven methodology, teacher network, and curriculum worldwide.
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What are the founding-member roles, and what equity is on offer?
Three roles, full-time, fully remote, open globally: CTO / Founding Engineer (~8% equity), CFO / COO (~4%), and Head of Partnerships (~3%). All co-founder-class, with founder stock and decision rights.
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Do I need EdTech experience?
No. We strongly want operators who scaled video, live streaming, social platforms, or social/impact businesses ─ and bring those skills to education. The educational core is already in place: 32 schools of working teachers, a methodology used by 1,100+ teachers, and an academy of 2,600+ students.
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How is "free for every child" actually sustainable?
Three revenue engines support one another: (1) B2G ─ ministries of education and ODA budgets, including JICA, embed us as a supplement to public education; (2) B2B ─ corporate CSR/ESG sponsorship, where companies "gift" lessons to children with direct SDG reporting; (3) B2C ─ freemium for parents (reports, coaching, English support). 10-year SOM: $730M. 2036 revenue target: $5.5B.
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Are there opportunities for investors and corporate partners?
Yes. We are preparing seed / pre-Series A and welcome equity, impact, convertible, and strategic-partnership structures. For corporates: CSR/ESG/SDG (especially SDG 4) strategic partnerships, co-produced lessons, and satellite/AI infrastructure partnerships. Use the form below — select "Investor / Strategic Partner" — and write to us.
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Is the role remote? Can I join from overseas?
Yes — fully remote. NIJIN itself runs on a metaverse headquarters; 35+ teammates collaborate from across Japan and overseas. Head of Partnerships candidates based in ASEAN, Latin America, or Africa are especially welcome. Quarterly in-person sprints in Tokyo / Kyoto / Manila.
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What is the process from application to offer?
After you submit the form, Hoshino replies within 24 hours. Then: (1) a 30-minute intro call, (2) a 1–2 hour deep dive on background fit and the business, (3) a culture/team-fit conversation, (4) terms and contract. End-to-end in 2–4 weeks.
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Why do you believe "the next YouTube" will be in education?
Three tailwinds, arriving at once. (1) Starlink / NTN satellite internet has — for the first time — opened global education distribution. (2) Generative AI / LLMs unlock the scarcity of great teachers, by handling personalization, grading and coaching. (3) Gen Z and Gen α already learn through video; YouTube is the de facto largest school on Earth — but it has no teachers, no friends, no graduation. We return all three.
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I'm not founding-member material, but I want to help. How?
Welcome. You can volunteer a few hours a month, support us as an individual sponsor (gift model), become a teacher (we issue our own international teaching credential), or join pro-bono in legal, comms, or hiring. Use the form and write "Volunteer / Supporter" in the message field.
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