Aoba-BBT Group Anniversary Project 2025–2026

INVESTING IN PEOPLE
and EDUCATION
TO SHAPE THE FUTURE

Lifetime Empowerment in the Invisible Continent

For People and Organizations That Shape the Future
Aoba-BBT’s 25-Year Journey and Its Commitment to the Next 100 Years

In the 21st century, we must fundamentally rethink the concept of “capital.
Tangible assets—land, money, infrastructure—alone can no longer shape the future.
True value is created by people, and education is the source that unlocks their potential.
Since its founding, Aoba-BBT has redefined the very structure of education based on this belief.

Through innovations in higher education with online universities and graduate programs, leadership development through corporate training, and the promotion of global education through international schools, we have continuously implemented the future of learning without fear of change.

Today, as AI and digital technologies permeate society like air,
the very nature of people and organizations is being transformed.

What matters now is not how much we know, but how boldly we challenge change and create new value.
We call this new era the “Invisible Continent.”

It is a world where borders and systems blur, where people and knowledge intersect to create unprecedented value.

Aoba-BBT sees this Invisible Continent as the new frontier of education— a platform where individuals can continue learning throughout their lives and harness their own power to shape the future.

For 25 years, Aoba-BBT has nurtured people through education and transformed society through those people.

Now, as we look toward the next century, we return once again to our founding vision.
Our anniversary initiative, “Lifetime Empowerment in the Invisible Continent,” is both a declaration and a challenge— to carry this philosophy into the future and to pass on the power of learning to the next generation.

Graduates, students, faculty, partner organizations, and local communities— all who share Aoba-BBT’s mission to develop globally minded leaders who can make a positive impact in the world— are invited to join us in building the next era together.

Education remains the most powerful engine of capital creation— a quiet yet unwavering revolution toward the future.

— Dr.Kenichi Ohmae
President, BBT University and BBT Graduate School (MBA)

Dr. Kenichi Ohmae