Link Interac Inc. is a Japanese company founded in 1972[1] which focuses to providing Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) to public elementary, middle, and high schools in Japan.
Interac is Japan’s largest private provider of professional foreign teachers to the Japanese government through its ALT program.
The company has fifteen domestic branches within Japan,[3] with associated offices in Salt Lake City and Oxford.
The scope of this teaching in public schools is quite large, and the estimate based on government figures is that about 17.33%, or 1 in 5.76 students, is taught by an Interac teacher weekly.
[5] About 10% of its business is in providing language instruction to companies such as Ito-Yokado,[3] Honda, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and NEC, as well as Japanese governmental organizations such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency.