To those who want to do business with Japan.

"Sadly, Japan is a country that is extremely difficult to understand. World recognizes its valuable history and culture, but no one is capable of communicating them to the world, and even the government fails to."

I always hesitate to tell them that it will be extremely difficult to understand Japan at the level they want to. I have strong resentment about how Japanese society excludes foreigners unintentionally; Many Japanese habits and activities are kept secret from foreigners.

I felt strong passion in changing this.

KERMESS is here to reveal Japan to you through our creative eyes, about Japan that is not in your textbook, and what locals really want to share with you. Likewise, we will share unique products, artists, and activities from your country to Japan.

Strengths of Kermess are: language, creativity, entrepreneurship.

Kermess is a project started by people from Polyglot Language Institute (Polyglot) in Tokyo.

There are very few high level language schools especially for non-English western languages in Japan.

Polyglot is a small but unique language school teaching European languages (mainly French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portugese), cultures, art, and entrepreneurship. Top notch translation programs are offered at polyglot.

Furthremore, Kermess has extensive network both in Japan and in Europe, which consists of venture companies and also at the individual level.

Through our language capabilities and network, we would like to become a hub for small individuals to support your business pursuits and broaden personal interests.

Please refer to FIERA and VENTURA for our service.

Despite the spread of internet, most people still go to the office everyday. People should achieve more mobility in their life. Kermess creates work for you over the internet, such as translation, business support, writing, consulting, marketing, web designs, etc. Obviously not all work can be done over the internet, however, majority of them can be done.

In any country, wealth is centralized in main cities. Despite the spread of the internet, it is still common for you or your business to relocate to large cities from non-city regions for jobs, schools, or to simply get involved in a more energized society and business opportunities. Kermess will support small businesses in your regional area to penetrate Japanese market.

Also, we will arrange "friendship ties" between the regional cities in Japan and Europe to promote collaboration at the city level.

Kermess believes art and culture should be valued more in the society, as we have started to realize that materialized world can not achieve spiritiual satisfaction. As more independent artists are recognized, more people would stop giving up their life interests for a job, just because for their living.

Kermess supports independent artists, designers, etc. Usually many artists lack access to the large corporations with capitals to promote them. But just promoting is not what makes artists successful.

To be recognized, it is definitely a strong advantage for artists to present themselves in languages. If you can lay down your concepts and view of your world in your language, Kermess will translate them in Japanese along with your art work.