日本語レッスン
Japanese courses
One-to-one and small-group Japanese lessons in Zwolle or online, taught in English by a native speaker. From your first hiragana to conversation for a trip or for family in Japan.
Mika Tanaka was born in Hachinohe, Aomori, in the far north of Japan's main island, and studied at Waseda University's School of International Liberal Studies, with a year at Lafayette College in the United States. After working in a company and then independently as an English teacher, she started an online administrative-support business from her kitchen table in Hachinohe in 2017, while raising two daughters.
That business became Remottosan, incorporated in 2023 with her as CEO. Its model is simple and unusual: professional back-office support for companies, delivered by women in rural Japan who could not otherwise work — because of children, care, or simply where they live. In 2022 the Cabinet Office of Japan recognised this work with a special Women's Challenge Award. She has since sat on Aomori Prefecture's planning council and led training and regional-development programmes for local government.
In 2024 she moved with her family to Zwolle. She still runs the Japanese company from here; alongside it she teaches Japanese, leads the Dutch-Japan Friends Zwolle community, and is a certified Cultural Intelligence (CQ) facilitator. She writes a regular column for a newspaper in northern Japan.
What runs through all of it is a conviction that people and places hold more possibility than the systems around them allow — and a habit of looking at Japan and Europe as someone who lives in both.
