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GJSDB

About the board

Global Japanese Soroban Development Board — The international authority establishing abacus curriculum benchmarks and verifiable credentials.

The GJSDB was established to preserve, advance, and standardize the authentic Japanese Soroban abacus discipline while integrating modern cognitive science.

We collaborate with accredited educational academies across the globe to uphold academic rigor, instructor excellence, and uncompromised certification integrity.

Our mission

To hold one standard for Soroban mental-arithmetic training, wherever it is taught.

Our vision

A certificate that means the same thing in every country that issues it.