Adult students learn professional English skills, British Council Japan

The British Council works with businesses, governments, and educational institutions around the world. For 90 years, we have provided practical English language training and assessment.  

Partnering with organisations in Japan to boost communication skills for success

The British Council works with businesses, governments, and educational institutions in over 80 countries around the world, to grow English and communication skills. 

We use our 90 + years of English teaching expertise and experience to create scalable, engaging, impactful learning solutions for professionals in all roles and industries. We also provide English training to students in school, recent graduates and university researchers.

Create your customised English training programme in Japan - in just 4 steps:

Step 1 - Consultation: 

We identify skills gaps and learning goals for your organisation.

Step 2 - Design:

We create scalable, customised solutions with personalised English content and integrated assessment.

Step 3 - Delivery:

Our experienced trainers engage your teams, and develop relevant, transferable skills to ensure your employees' progress.

Step 4 - Evaluation:

We track and report progress, report ROI and help you communicate success to stakeholders.

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Our training solutions for professional and English communication skills

Join 80+ million learners around the world to see practical results and behavioural change in the workplace. Our programmes in Japan include:

  • flexible in-person, online and blended delivery options
  • targeted, relevant workplace skills development
  • tools to track training impact and ROI.

Training programme highlights

  • Professional Communication Skills: Enhance engagement and productivity with specific communication skills that align with your organisation’s needs.
  • English Language Skills: Empower your people to communicate more confidently and effectively in workplace and social situations. 
  • Assessment and certification: Globally recognised exams, assessments and credentials that set standards to benchmark, track progress and highlight achievement.

Online training suite

A one-stop solution for English and Professional Communication skills development. Dashboards and targeted feedback help you report training impact and return on investment. Courses are curated to meet your needs from:

  • Self-Study: Convenient, affordable guided online learning. Your staff can learn at home, and strengthen their English skills for work.
  • Workplace English: Scalable and cost-effective.online learning for professionals, combined with classes led by experienced trainers.
  • Social English: Interactive trainer-led sessions for social and workplace English.
  • Professional Communication Skills: Targeted, impactful spoken and written workplace communication skills development.
  • IELTS Coach: Focused language and skills training to help your team and students get the score they need with us, the co-creators of the IELTS test.

Find more information about online learning solutions. 

Assessment and certification

Through testing and assessment, we help our clients recruit and retain the right talent. Plus, we support students to gain admission to institutions around the world, and help businesses measure training decisions.

Find more information about testing and assessment solutions. 

Client success story​

Momoyama Gakuin University in Japan (britishcouncil.org)​