{"id":2574,"date":"2026-01-20T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/kumon-targets-20-new-centres-by-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:55:40","slug":"kumon-targets-20-new-centres-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/kumon-targets-20-new-centres-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumon Targets 20 New Centres By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Kumon Malaysia, Malaysia\u2019s largest after-school enrichment programme, plans to open 20 centres over the next two years as part of its expansion strategy to augment its leadership position, bringing to a total of more than 220 centres by 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn line with our vision to reach out to students throughout Malaysia and continuously create opportunities to promote holistic learning, Kumon Malaysia is embarking on a journey to open more centres to address the growing need for after-school enrichment programmes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile this move paves new business opportunities for us, we strongly believe in uncovering the underlying potential in children, and developing a more confident child that eventually would be workforce-ready,\u201d said Kumon Malaysia general manager, \u00a0Yosuke Sugawa, General Manager of Kumon Malaysia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presently with a student database of over 33,000, Kumon\u2019s expansion plans have been progressing steadily with the opening of 4 new centres in Setia Ecohill (Selangor), Subang Bestari (Selangor), Bandar Tasek Mutiara (Penang) and Taman Pelangi (Johor Bahru) towards the end of 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, 2 centres in Bintulu (Sarawak) and Bukit Jalil (Kuala Lumpur) respectively, will open within the first quarter of 2019. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a track record of over 60 years and presence in over 50 countries and regions, Kumon focuses on helping children achieve their limitless potential through the self-learning method, a method initiated in Japan by an educator Toru Kumon. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The self-learning method is an effective way that provides a strong foundation in learning, where students, from as young as four, are able to progress in Mathematics and English to a level that is comfortable, and not limited to their school-grade levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumon Malaysia, Malaysia\u2019s largest after-school enrichment programme, plans to open 20 centres over the next two years as part of its expansion strategy to augment its leadership position, bringing to a total of more than 220 centres by 2020. \u201cIn line with our vision to reach out to students throughout Malaysia and continuously create opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}