進学マップについて
About Shinro Map
A service for families from abroad with children in Japanese daycare and school. Who is behind it, why it exists, how the paid review is made, and what we will never do.
Why it exists
It starts with a printout. A school or a juku sends home a sheet in Japanese with a deadline on it, and a parent who reads Japanese slowly, or not at all, has a few days to work out what it asks. Miss the date and the place goes to someone else.
Behind the printouts sit decisions in the millions of yen. Three years of juku before 中学受験 (chūgaku juken, the junior-high entrance exams) cost ¥2.2 million on average, and every rule that decides who may apply is written in Japanese. Shinro Map reads those rules at the source and lays them out in plain English, with the Japanese original beside each one.
How the written review is made
A bilingual advisor reads what you saved (your family profile and your juken result) and each shortlisted school's own 募集要項 (boshū yōkō, application guidelines). The review is written in English and quotes every rule in Japanese, with its source.
The advisor is a role on this page, not a stock photo: the email your review arrives in carries the name of the person who wrote it.
What we never do
- Promise admission, or say a child will pass.
- Rank schools as the best.
- Judge or label your child.
- Sell your data, or use it for advertising.
- Use your printouts or questions to train AI.
- Pass off a picture as a real family: the photos on this site are illustrations.
Your family's data
- Printout photos are kept in a private storage bucket and read only through your own signed-in account.
- Each scan and its card are deleted 90 days after the scan, or straight away when you delete your account.
- Your printouts and questions are read by an AI model to answer you; they are never used to train it, and request logging at the AI provider is off.
- Payments go through Stripe. We never see your card number.