# About Us | Studymeter Inc.

> Creating a world that inspires challenge

Studymeter is a Japanese IT education company that empowers people who want to take their next step, through the power of IT and learning. We ourselves wrestle with doubt and uncertainty — yet we keep facing new technologies and new ways of learning, one small challenge at a time.

To take on a challenge is to acknowledge the quiet voice inside that says, "I want to try." Each brave step forward is proof that you honored your own feelings — and little by little, you come to like yourself more. When each of us finds a little courage to take a new step, we move toward a society where everyone can accept themselves. That is the world we aim to create: a world that inspires challenge.

Source page: https://studymeter.jp/en/company (Japanese: https://studymeter.jp/company)

## Our Education

Education is commonly assumed to mean teaching correct knowledge. We confront what it means to be "right" in education.

What is the purpose of learning in the first place? Succeeding at work. Contributing to society. Enriching your own life. Acquiring the "right" knowledge is only one means to those ends.

Studying management theory systematically may be the right thing to do. But will it get you moving tomorrow morning? Understanding how a computer works may be the right thing to do. But will it make you able to actually use one?

What enriches our lives is not knowledge itself, but the steps we actually take. If that is true, then whether learners can actually start moving matters far more than whether the knowledge is "right."

You want to take that step — but somehow you can't. Studymeter's education exists for people like you. Rather than teaching "correctness," we stay sincere about one thing: delivering the spark that helps people take a new step.

## Our Educational Principles

### What: What we teach

- **Knowledge that leads to action**: Rather than systematic theory, we teach the knowledge that becomes a catalyst for changing your work and your life. We don't teach knowledge you can't use.
- **Compact learning**: You need less knowledge to get moving than you might think. Instead of complete understanding, we deliver just enough for you to take the first step.
- **Teaching our convictions**: Not because it's in a textbook, or because someone else says so — we teach what we genuinely believe.

### How: How we teach

- **Lead by doing**: We encourage others to take on challenges, so we cannot stand still ourselves. We keep taking on new challenges, first.
- **Give courage**: Our goal is not to transfer knowledge. It is to deliver the feeling of "maybe I can do this too."
- **Words that reach you**: We don't hide behind difficult or abstract language. We sincerely choose words that truly reach you.

### Who: Who our education is for

- **Backing your motivation**: Creating motivation itself is not our job. Our role is to give a push to those who already want to move forward.
- **Respect for where you are**: We never impose "correctness." We meet you at eye level, in words that fit your knowledge and your position.
- **Believing in your potential**: We believe in your success until the very end, without giving up. That is our sincerity.

## Services

- **On-Demand Learning**: We produce learning content for corporate training, centered on video courses (Udemy courses, semi-custom training videos, and more).
- **Live Training**: Our instructors deliver live lectures and workshops tailored to your requirements. For multi-day programs, we offer "Business Online Campus (BOC)," a corporate training service provided by Benesse Corporation. Our CEO Asahi Minowa supervises and teaches BOC's DX and generative AI courses, which feature a workshop format where participants put knowledge learned on Udemy into practice.
- **Content Planning & Production**: We create custom training content and provide consulting services (talent development and training program planning, original training materials, in-house contest planning, and more).

## First off Projects (Co-creation with Students)

First off Projects (FoPs) is a business community for high school and university students that serves as Studymeter's research arm. In exchange for funding and learning opportunities, participating students contribute insights on emerging technologies and case studies of new business creation, helping us develop new training services.

- First off Projects: https://fops.studymeter.jp

## Founder & CEO

Asahi Minowa, CEO

Born in 1987. After graduating from university, joined Accenture, where he built broad consulting experience spanning software development, IT strategy, and new business creation — giving him the ability to speak across the full landscape of business and technology rather than a single specialty.

Recognizing the importance of IT talent development, he began offering IT courses on the online learning platform Udemy in 2018. His clear, practical courses for non-engineers became bestsellers, and he has taught more than 300,000 learners to date. He specializes in curing "IT allergy" — helping people who feel intimidated by technology start moving — and his training experience across manufacturing, finance, trading, construction, energy, and other industries gives him a deep understanding of each industry's realities.

He founded Studymeter Inc. in 2020. He also leads First off Projects (FoPs), creating new businesses together with high school and university students — not just teaching challenge, but living it. He continues to support people who want to take their next step, working toward a world that inspires challenge.

### Publications

- "Six Actions for Getting Results with Generative AI: Mindset and Practice for Staying Grounded Amid Change" (Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., March 2026, Japanese) ISBN: 978-4297154660

### Areas of Expertise

- **The full picture of IT and DX**: A cross-cutting perspective spanning development, IT strategy, and new business creation
- **Curing IT allergy**: Years of teaching IT to non-engineers enable him to design learning that gets even technology-shy people moving
- **Cross-industry insight**: Training experience across manufacturing, finance, trading, construction, energy, logistics, healthcare, education, and more
- **A practitioner of challenge**: Continues to create new businesses with students — teaching challenge by living it

## Company Information

| Item | Details |
| --- | --- |
| Company name | Studymeter Inc. |
| Founded | July 7, 2020 |
| Capital | 3,000,000 JPY |
| CEO | Asahi Minowa |
| Head office | Business Airport Hibiya, 9F Toho Hibiya Building, 1-2-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan |
| Licenses | Secondhand Dealer License, Tokyo Metropolitan Public Safety Commission No. 301012420602 |