Yumemi Shigemi (left), president of Yumemi, and Kubo, chairman and president of EDION

Yumemi Shigemi (left), president of Yumemi, and Kubo, chairman and president of EDION

On April 23, EDION announced that it had acquired all shares of Yumemi (Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City), which operates a children's programming school called "Robodan," making it a subsidiary. The company said the shares were acquired from Akinori Shigemi, president of Yumemiru, and venture capitalists. In December 2018, EDION entered the robot programming education business for elementary and junior high school students, accelerating the expansion of the business in anticipation of making programming education compulsory in elementary schools from fiscal 2008. The amount of the stock acquisition is estimated to be around 1 billion yen. Photo taken on December 23, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Aid to financially strapped college students due to coronavirus pandemic

Aid to financially strapped college students due to coronavirus pandemic

Tokyo Woman's Christian University junior Yumemi Kawada takes part in an online lecture at her home in Tokyo on May 29, 2020. A Tokyo-based scholarship foundation for students who lost their parents due to traffic accidents will pay 200,000 yen in June to such students, like Kawada, who are in financial need amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Aid to financially strapped college students due to coronavirus pandemic

Aid to financially strapped college students due to coronavirus pandemic

Tokyo Woman's Christian University junior Yumemi Kawada takes part in an online lecture at her home in Tokyo on May 29, 2020. A Tokyo-based scholarship foundation for students who lost their parents due to traffic accidents will pay 200,000 yen in June to such students, like Kawada, who are in financial need amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo