Link Interac Inc.

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Link Interac Inc. is a Japanese comprehensive educational consultation company, founded in 1972.^[1] The name is an acronym for International Education Research and Analysis Corporation, although the company has never operated under that name. Interac originally concentrated on teaching business English, then shifted focus to providing Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) to public elementary, middle, and high schools. Interac provides teachers to schools around Japan.^[2]

The company has fifteen domestic branches within Japan,^[3] with associated offices in Salt Lake City and Oxford. There are approximately 100 administrative staff, and a teaching team of over 2500 ALTs and language teachers for English and other languages.^[3][4]

Interac is Japan’s largest private provider of professional foreign teachers to the Japanese government through its ALT program. As one of the largest non-government employers of foreign nationals in Japan they employ nearly 3,500 staff in Japan across a network of 13 offices. Around 3,200 of these employees are non-Japanese.

Interac began as a provider of corporate educational services but from the mid-nineties began providing ALTs and education-related services to Boards of Education across Japan.

In April 2014, Interac became part of the Link and Motivation Group (TSE:2170). The Link and Motivation Group has a range of interests and subsidiaries in the business consultancy, education, recruiting, and hospitality sectors in Japan.[1]