Totsu Sangyo:
Sustaining Hybrid Learning With Technology
Nori Nobukawa, CEO Advisor and Akio Ohga, President & Chief Executive Officer As 2022 draws to a close, the global academic community continues its pursuit of supporting and augmenting the new normal with hybrid learning models that include live classroom sessions, streaming, and on-demand video for students.
As a full-service provider of AV and ICT solutions since 1958, Totsu Sangyo is ideally positioned to help educational institutions ‘go digital’ and align well with the changing tides of the new normal.
“We’re always committed to exploring the latest AV and ICT equipment, improving efficiency and providing digital teaching and learning platforms for teachers, students, and parents,” says Akio Ohga, president and CEO of Totsu Sangyo.
At its core, Totsu Sangyo is a leader in the AV and ICT space, providing best-in-class equipment for corporate, educational, government, financial, broadcasting, and healthcare markets. It leverages a network of over 200 technology partners, including Sony, Panasonic, NEC, Epson, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Zoom, Crestron, Extron, Unilumin, Bose, Shure, QSC, and CHIeru, to offer a wide range of powerful digital solutions to schools. This includes lecture recording or delivery systems, learning support systems, thermal camera temperature measurement and mask-wearing detection systems, recording studio, beamforming microphone, and digital signage.
“We’re always committed to exploring the latest AV and ICT equipment, improving efficiency and providing digital teaching and learning platforms for teachers, students, and parents”
All-Inclusive Solution Suite to Drive Excellence
All of Totsu Sangyo’s systems are built with the most advanced technologies, allowing schools to address the whole gamut of challenges that bog down their academic and other student-facing operations. For example, the company’s digital solutions allow for high-quality audio-video lecture recording and video on-demand for students. This is ideal for students in hybrid learning environments such as flipped classrooms, problem-based learning (PBL) classes, preparation, review and supplementary lessons, and remedial classes. Totsu Sangyo also provides digital live streaming solutions for students attending classes in remote or hybrid environments.
As a customer-centric company, Totsu Sangyo believes in constant communication, and it lies at the heart of the company’s business model, allowing it to climb up the leaderboard. Its team stays in close communication with schools and puts their best foot forward to constantly evolve and improve, providing clients with the most flexible digital teaching and learning platforms. The company guarantees that these systems provide effective analysis and visualization of learning data and help achieve student-centered learning, giving them control over both the content and learning method—classroom, online, or hybrid.
All necessary tools are used to help teachers, students, and parents collectively decide which learning method is adequate for each student. This allows Totsu Sangyo to serve as a reliable partner for schools, guiding them through all the challenges of today and redefining the classroom for the future.
Guaranteeing the Best Customer Experience
As a full-service solution provider of professional AV and ICT equipment, Totsu Sangyo leverages in-depth industry and technology expertise and its customer-oriented approach to provide the finest professional services and support. It is cognizant of the fact that no two schools have the same needs, and offers system consulting, design, custom product development, installation, customer training, operation, and maintenance solutions.
“We would like to have our customers feel that they are in good hands when collaborating with us. This is our ‘Totsu Sangyo Values,’ the core business fundamentals to achieve Totsu Sangyo ‘Grand Design’,” states Noritaka Nobukawa, CEO advisor. “We aim to be unique and serve as a company that does special things—something special with special technology in a special way for special customers.”
With this powerful approach at its heart, Totsu Sangyo has a 64-year track record of successes with numerous customers in Japan. This gives it the deep market and technology experience necessary to understand customers’ real-world requirements and fulfill them to complete satisfaction. For example, it helped Temple University adopt the HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) classroom at their Japan campus. Early in the pandemic, the faculty at Temple University, Japan Campus, had quickly decided to adopt the HyFlex model to make their courses more accessible to students who could not attend in person. The Totsu Sangyo team installed HyFlex classroom solution, along with a digital signage system, and AV equipment in the lounge assisting the school in modifying their teaching operations.
Future-Proofing Japanese Education
Totsu Sangyo is now working with Aoyama Gakuin University, helping them with the necessary advice on their globalization and transition to a future-proof, cutting-edge university. Established by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1874, Aoyama University has begun efforts to become a cutting-edge university of the future while preserving its historical heritage as part of its 150th anniversary. Team Totsu Sangyo has been actively involved in this move, providing them with the necessary advice on globalization and transition based on its expertise in global business and the latest digital technologies.
Totsu Sangyo has also started engaging with international and U.S.-based schools to assist in their efforts to opening new campuses in Japan. All of these efforts are focused on accelerating the globalization of Japanese education; a crucial move for Japanese students to have exposure to international cultures and foreign language learning experiences. To achieve this business expansion in the international school segment, the company is expanding its global business development and project management team while augmenting its capabilities in key digital technologies, such as IT, security, VR, and AI.
Cementing the Leadership Position
All these successes are the result of Totsu Sangyo’s dedicated team of industry experts, who are committed to building a world of difference in the education space. The company believes that people are its greatest asset and always encourages employees and management teams to be innovative, creative, active, and constantly evolve. It explores all possible means to create a human innovation environment—a driving force that keeps the company innovative and lets it evolve into a technology systems integrator of the future. For example, the team at Totsu Sangyo leverages its PSNI Global Alliance membership to catch up with the latest digital technologies in the U.S. and introduce them to Japan.
As an active member of PSNI Global Alliance since 2019, a global industry organization of professional AV & IT systems integrators and manufacturers, Totsu Sangyo has been involved in their efforts of “Equipping the Classrooms to Support In-Person, Remote, or Blended Learning—Now and For the Future.” This, coupled with its representative office in San Diego, California, differentiates it and equips it with the digital technologies needed to cope with the enormous upheaval the education sector continues to face. Totsu Sangyo also has an extensive, global network of more than 100 PSNI Global Alliance member systems integrators.
Totsu Sangyo’s immense success is also the result of Ohga’s expansive network of school board members, business executives, and government officials, and Nobukawa’s experience as a U.S. high-tech industry veteran. By leveraging the duo’s combined expertise, Totsu Sangyo is now galloping to new heights, showcasing the “diligence and honesty” engraved on its DNA.
Guaranteeing the Best Customer Experience
As a full-service solution provider of professional AV and ICT equipment, Totsu Sangyo leverages in-depth industry and technology expertise and its customer-oriented approach to provide the finest professional services and support. It is cognizant of the fact that no two schools have the same needs, and offers system consulting, design, custom product development, installation, customer training, operation, and maintenance solutions.
“We would like to have our customers feel that they are in good hands when collaborating with us. This is our ‘Totsu Sangyo Values,’ the core business fundamentals to achieve Totsu Sangyo ‘Grand Design’,” states Noritaka Nobukawa, CEO advisor. “We aim to be unique and serve as a company that does special things—something special with special technology in a special way for special customers.”
With this powerful approach at its heart, Totsu Sangyo has a 64-year track record of successes with numerous customers in Japan. This gives it the deep market and technology experience necessary to understand customers’ real-world requirements and fulfill them to complete satisfaction. For example, it helped Temple University adopt the HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) classroom at their Japan campus. Early in the pandemic, the faculty at Temple University, Japan Campus, had quickly decided to adopt the HyFlex model to make their courses more accessible to students who could not attend in person. The Totsu Sangyo team installed HyFlex classroom solution, along with a digital signage system, and AV equipment in the lounge assisting the school in modifying their teaching operations.
Future-Proofing Japanese Education
Totsu Sangyo is now working with Aoyama Gakuin University, helping them with the necessary advice on their globalization and transition to a future-proof, cutting-edge university. Established by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1874, Aoyama University has begun efforts to become a cutting-edge university of the future while preserving its historical heritage as part of its 150th anniversary. Team Totsu Sangyo has been actively involved in this move, providing them with the necessary advice on globalization and transition based on its expertise in global business and the latest digital technologies.
We would like to have our customers feel that they are in good hands when collaborating with us. This is our ‘Totsu Sangyo Values,’ the core business fundamentals to achieve Totsu Sangyo 'Grand Design'
Cementing the Leadership Position
All these successes are the result of Totsu Sangyo’s dedicated team of industry experts, who are committed to building a world of difference in the education space. The company believes that people are its greatest asset and always encourages employees and management teams to be innovative, creative, active, and constantly evolve. It explores all possible means to create a human innovation environment—a driving force that keeps the company innovative and lets it evolve into a technology systems integrator of the future. For example, the team at Totsu Sangyo leverages its PSNI Global Alliance membership to catch up with the latest digital technologies in the U.S. and introduce them to Japan.
As an active member of PSNI Global Alliance since 2019, a global industry organization of professional AV & IT systems integrators and manufacturers, Totsu Sangyo has been involved in their efforts of “Equipping the Classrooms to Support In-Person, Remote, or Blended Learning—Now and For the Future.” This, coupled with its representative office in San Diego, California, differentiates it and equips it with the digital technologies needed to cope with the enormous upheaval the education sector continues to face. Totsu Sangyo also has an extensive, global network of more than 100 PSNI Global Alliance member systems integrators.
Totsu Sangyo’s immense success is also the result of Ohga’s expansive network of school board members, business executives, and government officials, and Nobukawa’s experience as a U.S. high-tech industry veteran. By leveraging the duo’s combined expertise, Totsu Sangyo is now galloping to new heights, showcasing the “diligence and honesty” engraved on its DNA.
