| Seiha English Academy | |
| Type: | Kabushiki kaisha |
| Founded: | 1985 |
| Location: | Fukuoka |
| Industry: | Language instruction |
| Key People: | Masami Sakaguchi (CEO) |
is a private eikaiwa English conversation school run by started primarily in western Japan for children from three months to 14 years old. It now has schools all over Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa.[1] As of March, 2019, Seiha has 743 classrooms all around Japan and is employing more than 2,000 teachers. Students enrolled in Seiha's English Network recently passed the 50,000 student mark which makes Seiha the largest children's English School in Japan.[2]
Native-English speaking teachers co-teach in tandem with native-Japanese teachers.[3] [4] Seiha's curriculum includes Total Physical Response-style teaching.
The academy's mascot is 'say hello', an anthropomorphic yellow bear dressed as a postman.