A Diverse New Workforce Driving JINS's Overseas Strategy: Approximately 240 'Global Employees' Welcomed.
JINS held its 2026 new graduate initiation ceremony, welcoming 238 'global employees' with diverse backgrounds, including a record 70 foreign nationals. This reflects their strategy to accelerate global expansion.
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JINS Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as JINS) held its 2026 new graduate initiation ceremony at Bellesalle Kanda on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, where 238 individuals with diverse backgrounds joined the company as 'global employees' on the same day.
Strategically Deploying Enhanced Global Talent Acquisition. Expanding Opportunities for International Students
Under its vision 'Magnify Life', JINS aims to shed light on unseen possibilities and broadly enrich the lives of people around the world. To deliver the JINS brand globally, the company operates 847 stores across 8 regions worldwide (as of the end of March 2026), including 567 domestic stores and recent expansions into Mongolia and Vietnam last year in 2025. To enhance world-class competitiveness, providing higher quality service at stores—the cornerstone of customer experience—is crucial. Therefore, JINS has been strategically strengthening the recruitment and development of global talent. In September of last year, highly globally-oriented individuals were positioned as 'global employees', and support for developing talent capable of working worldwide and career building was reinforced. Additionally, starting last year, the company resumed October onboarding for new graduates. By not limiting the onboarding of new graduates to just once in April, JINS is accommodating Japanese students studying at overseas universities and international students, thereby expanding employment opportunities.
New Graduates with Global Aspirations Join, Embracing Diverse Backgrounds
The 238 new graduates (excluding high school graduates) who joined this time are creators (general employees) who aspired to join as global employees. Furthermore, 70 out of the 238, representing approximately 30%, are foreign nationals, marking the highest number and percentage ever for new graduates joining JINS in April. Behind this achievement, in addition to increased awareness of the JINS brand overseas due to accelerated global expansion, senior foreign employees actively participated in company information sessions to help understand the brand. The company also established a flexible selection system to engage with individuals of diverse backgrounds during the screening process, and conducted training for prospective hires targeting international students to alleviate anxieties caused by language and cultural barriers.
At the initiation ceremony held on Wednesday, April 1, Ryo Tanaka (Representative Director, President and COO of JINS Holdings / Representative Director and President of JINS) sent words of encouragement to the new employees: 'JINS is a brand born in Japan that can become the global No. 1. Therefore, I expect all of you to quickly become fully-fledged professionals.' Eriko Hagiwara, representing the new employees, stated her aspirations to contribute to accelerating JINS's global expansion as a global employee: 'I will actively communicate with customers and strive to grow into someone who can deliver excitement to people all over the world.'
Strategically Deploying Enhanced Global Talent Acquisition. Expanding Opportunities for International Students
Under its vision 'Magnify Life', JINS aims to shed light on unseen possibilities and broadly enrich the lives of people around the world. To deliver the JINS brand globally, the company operates 847 stores across 8 regions worldwide (as of the end of March 2026), including 567 domestic stores and recent expansions into Mongolia and Vietnam last year in 2025. To enhance world-class competitiveness, providing higher quality service at stores—the cornerstone of customer experience—is crucial. Therefore, JINS has been strategically strengthening the recruitment and development of global talent. In September of last year, highly globally-oriented individuals were positioned as 'global employees', and support for developing talent capable of working worldwide and career building was reinforced. Additionally, starting last year, the company resumed October onboarding for new graduates. By not limiting the onboarding of new graduates to just once in April, JINS is accommodating Japanese students studying at overseas universities and international students, thereby expanding employment opportunities.
New Graduates with Global Aspirations Join, Embracing Diverse Backgrounds
The 238 new graduates (excluding high school graduates) who joined this time are creators (general employees) who aspired to join as global employees. Furthermore, 70 out of the 238, representing approximately 30%, are foreign nationals, marking the highest number and percentage ever for new graduates joining JINS in April. Behind this achievement, in addition to increased awareness of the JINS brand overseas due to accelerated global expansion, senior foreign employees actively participated in company information sessions to help understand the brand. The company also established a flexible selection system to engage with individuals of diverse backgrounds during the screening process, and conducted training for prospective hires targeting international students to alleviate anxieties caused by language and cultural barriers.
At the initiation ceremony held on Wednesday, April 1, Ryo Tanaka (Representative Director, President and COO of JINS Holdings / Representative Director and President of JINS) sent words of encouragement to the new employees: 'JINS is a brand born in Japan that can become the global No. 1. Therefore, I expect all of you to quickly become fully-fledged professionals.' Eriko Hagiwara, representing the new employees, stated her aspirations to contribute to accelerating JINS's global expansion as a global employee: 'I will actively communicate with customers and strive to grow into someone who can deliver excitement to people all over the world.'