Sanno University, Jiyugaoka Campus

SANNO University (SANNO) was founded in 1925 by Yoichi Ueno. SANNO is a unique school that offers educational opportunities for both students and professionals. Its unique setup enables SANNO to offer students a lifetime opportunity to learn, spanning from college level education to business expertise.

SANNO consists of programs for Business Education (Institute of Management) and Academic Education (Graduate School and Undergraduate School). A large number of students study on our three campuses located in Jiyugaoka, Daikanyama and Shonan.

SANNO has various academic programs, which adopt the practical knowledge and skills developed through business education and many management-consulting programs and are based on basic theory and academic research. SANNO is also widely known for its excellent management training and consulting programs that cover socio-industrial fields and international affairs.

The mission of SANNO is to educate business persons of integrity, who will never cease in developing their own concepts and ideals for management and business administration and who will not hesitate to acquire new abilities and realize these in practice while, dedicating themselves to the happiness and prosperity of mankind.

This is the founding spirit of SANNO; to not get swept up in passing trends, constantly question conventional wisdom and remain ever pragmatic.

SANNO will seek truth as enthusiastically as ever. From this viewpoint, SANNO endeavors to help students widen their global perspective and maintain sincerity as persons who respect the views of their colleagues.

Institute of Management of SANNO University has been delivering excellent results since the Japan Management Research Institute was founded in 1925 by Yoichi Ueno. SANNO offers many programs in management training and consulting services to thousands of companies and public-sector organizations.

Yoichi Ueno was the first business consultant in Japan. In 1920, he provided lectures on management to various Japanese companies to boost their factory productivity. Since then, we have continued in his tradition by providing consultation services to a variety of firms. SANNO is the oldest institution of consultation in Japan.

SANNO also offers various training and development programs. Our programs are designed to support employees in obtaining knowledge and skills that are specifically targeted to their current roles in order to improve their performances as well as prepare them for their potential future roles.

Each year, over 300,000 professionals attend our leadership, coaching, negotiation, sales and marketing, and presentation programs in addition to others offered at SANNO. SANNO focus on diversity with globalization of Japanese companies, and address the task to develop global human resources for them through promoting to investigate and study global management from a broad set of perspectives.

SANNO provides various training & development programs to solve our clients' organizational issues. Through our services, we spot organizational issues and offer specific measures to be taken as well as goals to be achieved. We are committed to our clients' successes.