The environment surrounding learning centers and other private educational institutions is becoming increasingly severe every year.
The Networks of Educational Alliance（ NEA） was established on September 20, 2018, as an initiative of Gakken Holdings and Ichishin Holdings Co., Ltd. This loose, collaborative organization of private educational institutions works to solve problems that are difficult for individual companies to handle, so that learning centers in far-flung localities can continue to thrive.
Its 124 regular members consist mainly of learning centers and its 36 supporting members include companies that provide educational content and maintain learning environments. The alliance works for the two goals of “expanding teaching measures to brighten our children's future” and the “sustainable development of private educational institutions.” It holds seminars and lectures and provides a variety of educational information and instructor training on E-learning. Twice a year it carries out an assessment known as ASUGAKU　(Educational assessment of non-cognitive skills) to graphically represent logicalthinking, judgement,and expressiveness. More than 100,000 participants take part in each session. In July 2020, we established the NEA Foundation, a general incorporated association. In the future, we will manage a fund for learning centers.

As a member of the Green Purchasing Network, Gakken Group participates in the revision of Green Purchasing Guidelines and sends a supervisor in its capacity as a purchaser of printed materials to participate in the “Offset Printing Service Ordering Guidelines Revision Task Group."