Only a handful of organizations like major banks, university research centers and airline companies possessed computer technology.

Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa organized the "FORTRAN Research Seminar" in Kyoto in 1963, which later developed in the KCG Group.

Under the ill-equipped environment of those times, Yasuko Hasegawa, the incumbent KCG president, struggled to develop a computer education system.

In the beginning, KCG founders Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa set the example by taking it upon themselves to transport the HITAC-10 in their car whenever there was a need to give lectures in faraway venues.

The program aims to enhance basic computer literacy and serves also as a medium for encouraging cultural exchange between Japan and participating countries.

The KCG Group and the University of Pardubice signed the memorandum of understanding for academic exchange agreement by holding ceremonies using video conferencing technology.

Since then KCG organizes the RIT Summer workshop where students get the chance to attend classes at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and B. Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences and have a feel of campus life in the US as well as see the sights in Rochester, Niagara Falls and New York City.

The office has been established in the Parliament Library of Beijing in 2002, as base of deeper academic exchange with Chinese universities and to support IT education in China.

Kyoto is known to be a "student-friendly city" with several amenities and reasonable housing, food and shopping facilities that cater to its large student population due to the location of universities and schools in the area.