Why
Why take the challenge in English?
From a society of credentials, to a society of learning.
And to an age in which you choose the language of your learning.
The language of your learning is yours to choose.
Learning that thinks things through in Japanese — your mother tongue — has a depth of thought that only the mother tongue can reach. Learning that touches the world directly in English has a breadth of world that only English can open.
Some have been waiting for depth. Some have been waiting for breadth. Some seek both. Even the language in which you take hold of them differs from person to person — a hundred people, a hundred ways of learning. For each one of them, we designed both paths with all our heart and with everything we have.
The goal is one: to become a leader who changes reality. How you choose the path towards it — that is your character.We at Shibuya Web3 University also run a path of learning deeply in Japanese. And this programme is the path for those who choose to take the challenge in English. What this page speaks of is what lies beyond that choice — and why we prepared this path.
There is a door that opens only to those who choose English.
Search in English, and the amount of information within your reach changes. The primary sources of the world's management thinking — the newest research, the new theories, the debates of the world's leaders — are born first in English, and go on accumulating in English. Without waiting for someone's summary or someone's translation, you go to the original and judge for yourself. That circuit opens, inside you.
Reading academic papers the way you read a newspaper. Touching the world's debate without time-lag. Writing through, in English, the thinking you did in English. — The wall is real. We have no intention of making light of how hard it is to take on a master's in a language that is not your own. But for every measure of that hardness, there is a world that opens. This is the path for those whose eyes turn towards it.
And one more thing. Before any reasoning — "I want to try this in English." If that feeling is there, it is enough, on its own.
A challenge needs no justification. The voice that says you want to try is, in itself, your answer.
Do you have a reality you want to change?
An organisation you want to change. An industry you want to change. A future not yetput into words, that you want to put to the world. There are people with a reality they want to change — and the power to change it. Yetthat will remains a private conviction, unconnected to world-class managementknowledge, to the discipline of scholarship, to the power to make yourself heard inEnglish. That is the reality we set out to change. To connect your will to knowledge and actionthat carry in the world — this path exists for that.
An MBA is a process: thinking, writing and questioning in the same language as the world.
We do not think of the MBA as a title. It is a process of answering, again and again, questions set to a world standard, with everything your experience and intellect can bring.
Reading in English. Thinking in English. Building your own argument by the conventions of referencing. And at the last, answering a question of your own choosing with a single dissertation. What remains in the person who has run this process through is not only the certificate. The habit of going directly to the world's knowledge. The intellectual stamina to stand in the same language as the world. And your own boundary line, redrawn.
At the very end, the degree passes into your hands — as proof, carried across the world, that you ran this process through.
"I want to try." That voice is where everything begins.
You do not need to explain neatly why you would take the challenge in English. If the voice that says "I want to try" is already in you, then that is your Why.
We are waiting, with the road designed, for that voice to arrive at completion. Tell us about the reality you want to change — and about that spirit of challenge.
At the threshold of this journey, I stand as Director, together with two specialist tutors who teach the foundations and conventions of academic practice.
Founder & Director
Hajime Kitamura
(hajimex)
・Shibuya Web3 University Co., Ltd. President and CEO
・Co-founder of Shibuya Web3 University
Academic Practice Tutor
A specialist tutor who conveys internationally recognised standards of academic practice in Japanese.
Without engaging with subject-specific business content or individual assignments, the tutor teaches the common conventions and methods required to research, think and write academically.
Dr. SHIMANUKI Seiya
・SCX Professional Program MBA/DBA faculty member
・CEO, Cutting Edge Medical LLC ・2024 Executive DBA, Jesselton University, Malaysia
・2024 DBA, European City University, France
・2007 MBA, University of Wales, UK
・1998 Century Medical Co., Ltd. (Itochu Corporation)
Dr.TSUJIMURA Shinnosuke
・SCX Professional Program MBA/DBA faculty member
・Founder & CEO of HR Concierge Co., Ltd.
CULFI Co., Ltd. Co-Founder & COO
- Government advisor
・2026 DBA, University of Information Technology and Management (UITM), Poland
・2021 MBA (Distinction), Anglia Ruskin University, UK
・2006-2015 Benesse Corporation: Global Education Business Director / Overseas Study Business Director