Logo & Philosophy

The Fona School logo is a lion. The thinking and reasoning behind it is based on the following quote from Og Mandino:

I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion [...]
Og Mandino (self-improvement author)

Study at Fona School, and become a lion!

Jim & Saeko

Hi! I'm Jim, the founder of Fona. At Fona, our purpose and our joy is to help you live happier and more fully. Toward that end, we have gathered people of various nationalities. You don't even have to leave Japan to experience a variety of cultures, and make international friends. We provide you the opportunity to learn many different ways of thinking and living from around the world, to give you an objective view to decide what is best for you.

Mission Statement

To provide benefit to individuals and societies by providing high quality, effective education of every useful description, based fully on respecting all individuals and improving their lives.

Operating Principles

Fona School adheres to the following principles in all dealings with all clients and all associates alike, in all areas.

• Honesty and loyalty
• Fairness seasoned with generosity
• Clarity and simplicity
• Continuous improvement and growth

Vision

• To educate people in the true sense of the word: helping individuals to comprehend truth, and to apply it to themselves and their lives in a manner that brings them maximum benefit.
• To help people improve their minds.
• To instruct people in all arts and sciences, in the history of the world, in the laws of nations, and so on; not confining their study to theory only, but meaningfully applying what they learn to real life.
• To enable people to understand the laws and principles of life and how to be useful while they live.
• To help people to understand the inter-relationships of all knowledge, and to distinguish between knowledge that is worthwhile, and knowledge that is not.
• To prepare people to succeed genuinely and greatly, in the true meaning of success.
• To become a world-wide school, providing all levels of education: prenatal through university, marriage, parenting, and so on.