Cooperative Overview

BEGIN Cooperative is not an organization that pretends to be running licensed activities it has not yet been authorized to perform. We are registered as a business cooperative in Chiba Prefecture, and while operating our primary business — the joint purchasing business — we are also preparing the acceptance support for the Technical Intern Training, Specified Skilled Worker, and Training and Employment programs, including the license applications, as part of our stated business purpose.

Our representative director spent five years at a major supervising organization and registered support organization, including three years as representative director and supervising manager. At the front line where several hundred technical interns and Specified Skilled Worker holders were received, he handled the entire scope of work — application document management, deadline control, audit ledgers, and reporting to relevant authorities — supporting member companies day in and day out.

What he came to feel strongly through that experience was a structural problem: as scale grows, the very origin of the cooperative — mutual support — quietly fades. To stand at the front when problems arise and solve them together with members. To keep thinking, in normal times, how to reduce the administrative burden on members, prepare templates, and stay close to daily work. The desire to build, from the ground up, a cooperative that does these obvious things obviously — that became the driving force behind BEGIN.

While complying with the system as it is meant to be, we wanted to redesign from scratch both the joint purchasing model that helps member companies' management, and the acceptance support model built on the spirit of mutual support.
With that commitment, the representative director resigned from his position at the existing organization and founded BEGIN Cooperative.

BEGIN means "a beginning."
We want to be a cooperative that supports both the new business development of member companies, and the new lives of young friends from overseas who come to Japan to learn skills or to work.
That intention is woven into our name.