Relationship with society | Expanding financial and economic education

We published this book for upper-grade elementary school students in March 2008. We have donated around 170,000 copies to 2,000 schools across Japan. Schools receive sets of student textbooks and teacher instruction manuals. The book follows the activities of three characters to educate Students about economics, talking them through 10 topics, including prices, taxes, companies and climate change.

We published this text in 2006 to supplement social studies classes. We have donated around 330,000 copies to about 3,300 junior high schools across the country. The set includes a student textbook that explains financial and economic complexities in simple language and pictures. A teacher's manual includes worksheets and examples for class exercises. The book tells the story of three fictional junior high school students who start a T-shirt business. In working through the textbook, students learn about corporate social responsibility, how the economy works, and economic and financial terms.

Nomura Group provides practical finance courses to universities nationwide to cultivate Japan's future economic leaders.

In 2008, Capital Nomura Securities Public Company Limited (Bangkok) organized its sixth annual financial lecture at Chulalongkorn University.
Masaaki Yamaguchi, managing director of the Asia and emerging market research department in the Nomura Securities Co., Ltd financial and economic research center, presented a special lecture entitled "South Asian Equity Markets: Correlations between Global and Regional Equity Markets".

In September, October, and November 2007, Nomura International (Hong Kong) LIMITED (NIHK) hosted three joint finance courses together with the College of Economics of the Vietnam National University and the Foreign Trade University. NIHK offered scholarships, each equivalent to a year's tuition fees, to outstanding students at the two institutions.

Most people get few opportunities to learn about financial and economic systems despite the deep relevance to their lives. Nomura Group addresses this problem by offering seminars for lifelong learning programs in local communities and workplaces. Courses cover financial planning concepts for comfortable retirements, and are relatively simple so they even benefit beginners. More than 200,000 people have taken these courses since they were first offered in 2003.

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun., Inc jointly sponsor this website, whose financial seminars heighten general interest in and understanding of finance and the economy. Content includes commentary aimed at the ordinary person on current topics and market trends. Individual investors can use the site to learn about asset management for example.

• man@bow Website (Only available in Japanese)

We launched these classes to build on our educational efforts in finance and economics. Nomura Group employees visit upper-grade classes at elementary schools to teach the basics about currencies and exchange rates and show how yen fluctuations affect trade.

2009 marked the tenth year of this contest, held by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. for junior high school, high school, and university students. Nomura Group has been a special sponsor since the contest began.

• Nikkei Stock League Website (Only available in Japanese)

Since 2007 Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. and Ritsumeikan University have jointly developed financial education programs for high schools to cultivate financial talent. The program involves assessing economics education in high schools, building networks with education stakeholders and developing and designing financial education programs. Fiscal 2008 saw existing educational materials evaluated and a new program was developed, and in 2010 a website was launched that offered teaching materials for download.

• Ritsumeikan University and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. cooperated Website (Only available in Japanese)

We co-sponsored this financial literacy publication for elementary school pupils. It describes the roles of money, banks and securities companies in a simple, comic book style. We donated copies to 24,000 elementary schools and 2,400 public libraries nationwide in April 2003.

In February 2005, we published and donated copies of this book to 11,000 junior high schools and 2,400 public libraries across the nation. It features a qualified financial planner who explains financial and economic mechanisms in lay terms to junior high school students in her neighborhood.

This is a financial literacy book written for young adults by Takashi Miwa, a senior economist in the Economic Research Department of Nomura Securities' Financial & Economic Research Center. It aims to supplement financial knowledge using simple language. Such financial knowledge based on education from elementary school through university is thought to be insufficient in Japan.
The book uses simple explanations and is structured in an easy-to-understand manner, enabling readers from a wide range of ages to understand the concepts. This book allows readers to deepen their knowledge about the basic concepts and roles of finance, in addition to introducing them to cutting-edge finance theory and financial technology.

Women of all ages have become increasingly interested in investing and asset management. In November 2004, Nomura Securities established a Woman Financial Planning Team to provide information specifically geared for women, and in May 2005 Toyo Keizai Inc. published a Japanese translation of "A Woman's Guide to Investing", the famous tutorial written for American women about how to deal with money issues and build a long-term financial plan. Nomura hopes that a large number of women will make good use of this resource in increasing their financial literacy, and take the first step towards a better financial future.