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Expression Lab is a thematic day camp where children explore who they are and how they relate to others through the expressive arts - visual, musical, dramatic, poetic, and physical.

 

Each morning opens with a Discovery Question that takes children out into Tokyo's streets, museums, and cultural spaces. Each afternoon, they build a creative piece that grows across the week.

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Location:

   Phoenix House International School, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

 

Camp dates:

   6 - 10 July

   13 - 17 July

   20 - 24 July 2026

 

Working hours:

   08:00-17:00

 

Pay:

   ¥120,000 per week

 

Necessary Requirements

• Background in the arts, creative education, or a related expressive discipline

• Warm, reflective, and comfortable facilitating rather than directing - belief in creativity as a way of thinking, not a performance

• Confident working with children in a small group day setting

• Able to lead or co-facilitate morning urban fieldwork, taking children into Tokyo's streets, museums, and cultural spaces

• Comfortable holding space for open-ended, student-led creativity across a week

• Strong safeguarding awareness appropriate to a day camp setting

• A visa that allows you to work in Japan

 

Desired but Not Required

• Experience across multiple art forms - visual, musical, dramatic, poetic, or physical

• Background in creative education, arts facilitation, or child-centred pedagogy

• Comfortable navigating Tokyo and an enthusiasm for urban exploration with children

• Experience living or working in Japan, or comfort in cross-cultural settings

• Conversational Japanese

• Experience with project-based or portfolio-style learning​​​

Eco Lab is a residential, nature-based camp where children camp under the stars, work the land, care for horses, and contribute to the farm's rewilding project. Learning is shaped by the Hokkaido landscape itself - through fieldwork, carpentry, conservation, and student-led discussion around the campfire each evening.

 

Once the camp is complete, instructors can stay in Hokkaido for an extended trip to explore the unique nature offered in the wildest part of Japan before using their return flight.

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Location:

   Hokkaido Home Farm, central Hokkaido
   (15 mins from New Chitose Airport)

 

Camp dates:

   29 June - 5 July

   6 July - 10 July

   13 July - 17 July 2026

   (multiple sessions across this period)

 

Working hours:

   07:00 – 22:00

   (with regular daily breaks and rest periods built in)

 

Includes:

Return flights, full board and accommodation throughout camp dates, meals included

 

Pay:

¥150,000 for the week of 29 June (six working days) ¥120,000 per week (five working days)

 

Necessary Requirements

• Comfortable outdoors in all weather conditions

• Confident working in small groups with children in a residential setting (max 18 children per camp, with direct responsibility for 6 children)

• Experience facilitating nature-based or outdoor activities with children

• Able to camp overnight with children and maintain duty of care through evening and morning routines

• Comfortable with basic campsite management - setting up, safety checks, night supervision

• Able to lead or co-facilitate structured outdoor activities (fieldwork, conservation tasks, carpentry, land work)

• Enthusiastic about hands-on, inquiry-led, place-based learning

• A visa that allows you to work in Japan (work permit for Student visa holders and special permission for Instructor visa holders)

• Strong safeguarding awareness and ability to maintain professional boundaries in a 24-hour residential environment

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Desired but Not Required

• Experience in forest school, outdoor education, or environmental education

• First aid qualification (wilderness or outdoor first aid preferred)

• Knowledge of or interest in rewilding, ecology, or sustainable land use

• Experience living or working in Japan, or comfort navigating cross-cultural settings

• Conversational Japanese

• Background in carpentry, horticulture, animal care, or a related practical skill