"JSAE Kids Engineer 2026 in Yokohama on July 24-25, 2026 drew 5,531 visitors (organizer release)"

TL;DR: According to the event report published on PR TIMES by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE, a public-interest incorporated association) (prtimes#1770327, 2026-08-01 02:07 JST), Kids Engineer 2026 was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama; it was the 18th edition overall and the 9th held in Yokohama, and drew 5,531 visitors, which the release states is 1,865 more than the 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition in 2024 (the increase figure is stated in the release itself; this card computes no ratios). The programme comprised 20 classroom-type and 12 exhibit-type activities, of which 14 appeared for the first time this year, and 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin) of the National Institution for Youth Education. Basis: all 11 sources for this card are PR TIMES releases, of which three (the main release, the advance media notice and the JSAE technology expo event report) come from the same issuing entity, JSAE, and therefore do not corroborate one another independently; every figure is self-reported in the respective release and none of it may be treated as an official endorsement. The official-anchor status and every verification caveat are set out in the Basis and Limitations section.

JSAE Kids Engineer 2026 in Yokohama on July 24-25, 2026 drew 5,531 visitors (organizer release)

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2026-08-01-001 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-08-01 Author: 白河 雅 (Japan Editor-in-Chief desk; auto AI structuring) Category: Japan (日本) public-interest association event report / children's science and engineering hands-on education (PR TIMES first-party material; issuing entity = Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, JSAE) Articles covered: prtimes#1770327 (main anchor) plus 10 items retrieved from the full ainews database during writing: prtimes#602534 (ADD_EVIDENCE / same entity's advance notice), prtimes#1308025 (CONTEXTUALIZE / the same entity's other 2026 event report), prtimes#1347710 (ADD_EVIDENCE / exhibitor-side advance release), prtimes#1372352 (CHALLENGE / parallel event at the same venue on the same dates, attribution constraint on the visitor count), prtimes#1771183 (CONNECT / the grant fund's administering institution issued a release the same day), prtimes#1252114 (CONTEXTUALIZE / another grant case from the same fund), prtimes#579919 (CONTEXTUALIZE / another function of the same association), prtimes#1673313 (CONTEXTUALIZE / demand-side sample survey), prtimes#1721073 (CONTEXTUALIZE / another automotive body's children's programme), prtimes#1348938 (CONTEXTUALIZE / venue context) Selection method: The daily selector (ANKRUN-20260801113704) selected prtimes#1770327 as the main release; its scores record official_count_verified=0, official_count_raw=0 and official_attribution_unverified_count=0. The "PR TIMES first-party material" rule applies: a PR TIMES release from a single issuing entity is that entity's first-party material, and the main release carries ample citable facts (dates, venue, edition number, visitor count, comparison with the previous Yokohama edition, programme counts, grant, and the supporter and sponsor rosters), so it is not a fact-free promotional item. The other 10 items were added during writing via asql searches of the full ainews database (layer tags above). This card reports in neutral factual language, does not promote, and endorses no company or organisation. The internal citation chain references three already-published cards on this site. This card carries no Wikidata Q identifiers (no registry verification was performed in this run; when in doubt, omit).

TL;DR

JSAE's event report states that Kids Engineer 2026 was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama; it was the 18th edition overall and the 9th in Yokohama, and drew 5,531 visitors, 1,865 more than the 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition in 2024 (prtimes#1770327). [F-001] The programme comprised 20 classroom-type and 12 exhibit-type activities, of which 14 appeared for the first time this year (prtimes#1770327). [F-002] 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education) (prtimes#1770327). [F-003] Supporters listed include the Cabinet Office, MEXT, METI, MLIT, Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama and prefectural and municipal boards of education; special sponsors and sponsors listed include Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Daihatsu, Nissan, SUBARU, Honda, Astemo, DUNLOP (Sumitomo Rubber), NIPPO, Nichinan and the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium (prtimes#1770327). [F-004] The same entity's advance notice (2026-06-02) had already stated JSAE's endorsement of MEXT's "Declaration for Promoting Children's Hands-on Activities", that the event has run since 2008, and verbatim that "compared with the previous Yokohama edition (2024), exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled" (prtimes#602534). [F-005] The same entity's other 2026 event report (2026-07-03) records its B2B professional show "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026": YOKOHAMA three-day total 80,493 visitors (the release notes 79,808 for 2025 in parentheses) and NAGOYA three-day total 34,227 (the release notes 34,548 for 2025) — the two reports use different comparison baselines chosen by the organizer, and any citation must carry the baseline with it (prtimes#1308025). [F-006][J-002] Attribution constraint: on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026 and at the same Pacifico Yokohama, the "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B (prtimes#1372352), while the ITS Connect booth at Kids Engineer is recorded as being in Exhibition Halls C and D (prtimes#1347710) — this card asserts no causal relationship of any kind between them. [F-007][F-008][J-003] Basis: all 11 sources are PR TIMES releases and three of them are from JSAE itself (same source, not independent corroboration); every figure is self-reported — the official-anchor status, the verification caveats and every citation constraint are set out in the Basis and Limitations section. [J-001]

Main text

Format and basis (opening section)

The main anchor of this card is the "Kids Engineer 2026 Event Report" published on PR TIMES by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (prtimes#1770327, 2026-08-01 02:07 JST). Under the "PR TIMES first-party material" rule, a PR TIMES release from a single issuing entity is treated as that entity's first-party material: every fact in this card has the status of "as stated in the respective issuing entity's release", not of a fact independently verified by this site.

The basis must be nailed down first (the full list of conditions is collected in the Basis and Limitations section at the end of this card and is not repeated here): JSAE is a public-interest incorporated association (an academic body), not a government agency. All 11 sources are PR TIMES releases, and three of them (prtimes#1770327 main release, prtimes#602534 advance notice, prtimes#1308025 the other event report) are the association's own releases — the same issuing entity means the same source, and they do not corroborate one another independently. Every figure (5,531 / 3,666 / 1,865 / 20 / 12 / 14 / 80,493 / 34,227 and so on) is self-reported in the respective release. For the official-anchor status and the verification caveats, see items 1 and 2 of the Basis and Limitations section. Any citation of this card must carry this basis and must not treat the content as an official endorsement. [J-001] (prtimes#1770327, prtimes#602534, prtimes#1308025)

Core facts: event outline and visitor count

As stated in the main release (prtimes#1770327) [F-001]:

| Item | As stated in the release | |---|---| | Name | Kids Engineer 2026 | | Dates | Two days, July 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2026 | | Venue | Pacifico Yokohama | | Organizer | Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (public-interest incorporated association) | | Edition | 18th edition overall; 9th edition held in Yokohama | | Rotation | Release states the event alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area | | Visitors | 5,531 (2026 Yokohama edition) | | Comparison with previous Yokohama edition | Release states: against 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition (2024), this year (2026) drew 5,531, an increase of 1,865 |

The figure "1,865 more" is the increase for the 2026 Yokohama edition against the previous Yokohama edition (2024) as stated in the main release, and is transcribed here. This card computes no growth rates, ratios or totals (see the Basis and Limitations section). (prtimes#1770327)

Programme structure: 20 classroom-type, 12 exhibit-type, 14 new this year

The main release states that the event consisted of two types: 20 classroom-type programmes taught by working engineers from companies and universities and by university and vocational-college faculty, and 12 exhibit-type programmes that could be tried without a reservation. It lists the names and providers of the 14 programmes that appeared for the first time this year [F-002] (prtimes#1770327):

First edition held with a Children's Dream Fund grant

The main release states that 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education) [F-003] (prtimes#1770327). The same statement also appears in the same entity's advance notice of 2026-06-02 (prtimes#602534) — agreement within the same source, not independent corroboration. Neither release states the grant amount, the grant category or the application terms, and this site has not checked them.

Supporters, special sponsors and sponsors (roster transcribed from the main release)

As listed in the main release [F-004] (prtimes#1770327):

The roster is transcribed from the main release. This card offers no evaluation, no recommendation and no endorsement of the listed companies, and it does not derive company counts or set relationships from the roster.

Two supply-side changes already written into the advance notice (ADD_EVIDENCE)

As stated in the same entity's advance notice published on 2026-06-02 (prtimes#602534) [F-005]:

This is the most firmly nailed piece of reading-between-the-lines in this card: the two supply-side changes — walk-in exhibit-type programmes roughly doubling versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024), and the first-ever public grant — were written into the organizer's own documents before the event took place (2026-06-02), not produced afterwards to explain the visitor count. Between the event report (2026-08-01) and the advance notice (2026-06-02), these two statements are consistent. (prtimes#602534, prtimes#1770327)

Analysis: one association, one year, two event reports with different comparison baselines

This section uses only facts already cited in this card and introduces no figures from outside it.

JSAE issued another release in 2026 in the same "event report" format: the "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA / NAGOYA Event Report" of 2026-07-03 (prtimes#1308025) [F-006] — YOKOHAMA was held May 27-29, 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama with a three-day total of 80,493 visitors (the release notes 79,808 for 2025 in parentheses); NAGOYA was held June 17-19, 2026 at Aichi Sky Expo with a three-day total of 34,227 (the release notes 34,548 for 2025); forum attendance was 2,679 across 12 sessions in Yokohama and 257 across three sessions in Nagoya. This card transcribes each figure and computes no differences and no ratios.

What deserves decoding is not which number is larger, but that the comparison baseline the organizer itself chose is not the same in the two reports [F-001][F-006]:

The main release itself supplies a verifiable institutional reason for the difference: Kids Engineer alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area [F-001], so no prior-year, same-city comparison exists, whereas the Automotive Engineering Exposition was held in both locations in both 2025 and 2026 so far as that release confirms [F-006]. This is a difference of measurement basis that documents support, not a narrative manoeuvre by the organizer — but the baseline must travel with the citation: the comparison object for "5,531" is the 2024 Yokohama edition, not any 2025 event. That is this card's core caution to anyone citing it. [J-002]

The two reports also differ in how they handle reasons for the change in scale. On the children's side, the organizer had already written two supply-side changes into the advance notice: expanded walk-in capacity (exhibit-type programmes roughly doubled versus the 2024 Yokohama edition) and the first public grant [F-005]. On the professional-show side, no comparable supply-side change appears within the scope of the release cited in this card [F-006] (this site has not checked information beyond that release). The honest limit is exactly this: the two supply-side changes are facts stated by the organizer, but the organizer does not attribute the 2026-versus-2024 Yokohama increase in visitors to them, and neither does this card.

Attribution constraint: another children's event at the same venue on the same dates (CHALLENGE)

Before the 5,531 figure is cited as evidence of "growing demand for children's science and engineering experiences", it has to be put back into its actual setting.

In other words, on the same two days and at the same Pacifico Yokohama, another large children's event was running in the adjacent Exhibition Hall B. The two releases come from different issuing entities and each states its dates and exhibition hall verbatim, so this is a verifiable co-occurrence. This card asserts no causal relationship of any kind — no cross-traffic, no cannibalisation, no synergy — between the two events; neither release states any such thing and this site has not checked it. The sole function of this section is this: any citation that reads 5,531 as the result of a single factor (programme expansion, public grant, or shifting demand) already exceeds what the available documents can support. [J-003][F-001][F-008]

Venue context (prtimes#1348938, 2026-07-07, release from Yokohama International Peace Conference Center Co., Ltd.): Pacifico Yokohama opened in 1991 and marked its 35th anniversary in 2026; the release states that "more than 30,000 events have been held here, and cumulative visitors reached 100 million as of the end of November 2025" [F-014]. These are venue-side self-reported figures with no stated connection to this event, used here only as context on the scale of the venue.

The grant side: the Children's Dream Fund's framework is changing (CONNECT)

The main release states that this was the first edition to receive a grant from the fund [F-003]. The National Institution for Youth Education, which administers the fund, published "The Children's Dream Fund, opening children's futures, is changing" on PR TIMES at 2026-08-01 05:13 JST, the same day as the main release (prtimes#1771183) [F-009]. However, the body text of that release held by this site is extremely short, and the only citable elements are phrases such as "The power of experience delivered to children - examples of grant-funded activities", "Guide to the new Children's Dream Fund system", the department name "National Institution for Youth Education, Children's Dream Fund Department", and a note that detailed materials are available elsewhere — the specific content of the new system is not stated in the body text held by this site, and this site has not checked it. This card therefore records only the fact that the administering institution issued a notice about a new system on the same day, and no inference may be drawn from the headline's "is changing" about the direction, amount or scope of any change.

Another verifiable case funded by the same programme (prtimes#1252114, 2026-06-29, release from Sun Amenity Co., Ltd.) [F-010]: the company states that with a Children's Dream Fund grant it will hold "Sailing Day! Miyakejima Blue Adventure" from September 19 (Sat) to September 23 (Wed, holiday), 2026, a five-day, three-night programme including one night aboard ship, for elementary fifth-graders through junior high school students resident in Saitama Prefecture, with a capacity of 15 (by lottery if oversubscribed) and a participation fee of 35,000 yen. This card transcribes each release's figures separately and does not mix figures from different sources into a single comparative sentence; the only honest statement is qualitative: projects supported by the same grant programme differ in target scope, capacity and fee structure (each as stated in its own release).

Other functions of the same association (CONTEXTUALIZE)

Beyond children's education, JSAE also performs a technology-award function. JTEKT Corporation's release of 2026-05-29 (prtimes#579919) states that the company received the Technological Development Award at the 76th JSAE Awards, organized by JSAE, for its steer-by-wire system; the recipients were Kenji Shibata, Hajime Uemae and Yoshio Kudo of Toyota Motor, Nobuyori Nakajima of DENSO and Ko Nishimura of JTEKT; the release also states that the JSAE Awards were established in 1951, that six award categories now exist by type of recipient, and that the Technological Development Award targets individuals and their co-developers who have developed new products or technologies useful to the advancement of automotive technology [F-011]. This is a third-party (award recipient) release and functions here as CONTEXTUALIZE — a verifiable record that the same association runs academic awards, a professional exhibition and children's engineering education in parallel. This card draws no inference about its resource allocation or priorities, as there is no evidence for any.

Demand-side and peer-side reference material (CONTEXTUALIZE)

Neither of these releases states any connection to JSAE; the relationship is thematic only.

Basis and limitations (all constraints for this card collected here)

1. Zero verified official anchors: the selector records official_count_verified=0, official_count_raw=0 and official_attribution_unverified_count=0. Nothing in this card may be treated as officially verified endorsement. 2. First-party status: all 11 sources are PR TIMES releases. Of these, prtimes#1770327, #602534 and #1308025 come from the same issuing entity, JSAE — same source, so they do not corroborate one another independently. The remaining eight come from eight different issuing entities. Every figure is self-reported in its release and has not been independently verified by this site; none may be treated as a third-party-verified fact. 3. Do not mix comparison baselines: the baseline for "5,531 / 3,666 / an increase of 1,865" is the 2026 Yokohama edition against the previous Yokohama edition (2024). The baseline for "80,493 / 79,808 / 34,227 / 34,548" is the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 in each location against the 2025 edition of the same show as noted parenthetically in that release. These are different events, different populations and different baselines, and must not be converted into or compared against one another. 4. This card generates no new figures: apart from format conversion of date notation (the source metadata's UTC timestamp converted to JST, as noted), it computes no ratios, growth rates, differences or totals. The "increase of 1,865" (basis: 2026 Yokohama edition against the 2024 Yokohama edition) is transcribed from the main release. 5. Attribution constraint: the organizer does not attribute the change in visitor numbers to any single factor, and neither does this card. The fact that "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B at the same Pacifico Yokohama on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026 is a co-occurrence, not causal evidence. 6. The Children's Dream Fund's new system: the body text of prtimes#1771183 held by this site is extremely short, the specific content of the new system is not stated there, and this site has not checked it; no inference about direction, amount or scope may be drawn from the headline. The grant amount and category are likewise not stated in the main release. 7. Sample, not census: the 27.4% / 40.1% / 91.6% and similar figures in prtimes#1673313 rest on the sample population stated in that release (10,699 children and 918 guardians; the release also notes exclusions and adjusted denominators for some questions) and must not be extrapolated to all elementary school pupils or all households. 8. Time basis: this card's publication date of 2026-08-01 is on or after the latest source date of 2026-08-01 (prtimes#1771183, 2026-08-01 05:13 JST). Relative expressions such as "this year" and "the previous edition" in the releases have been converted to absolute years in this card. 9. PR TIMES' standard notice that "the information published is current as of the date of announcement" applies to all 11 sources.

FAQ

Q: When and where was Kids Engineer 2026 held, and how many people attended?

Per JSAE's event report (PR TIMES release): it was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama, with 5,531 visitors. The release states that against 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition (2024), this year (2026) drew 5,531, an increase of 1,865. It was the 18th edition overall and the 9th held in Yokohama.

The release states that the event alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area, which is why the baseline is the previous Yokohama edition (2024) rather than the previous year; any citation must carry that baseline (prtimes#1770327; see the Basis and Limitations section).

Q: What programmes were offered and which companies took part?

The release states a structure of 20 classroom-type and 12 exhibit-type programmes, of which 14 appeared for the first time this year. Providers of the new programmes include NIPPO, DUNLOP (Sumitomo Rubber Industries), Nihon University, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium, JSAE (with cooperation from NSK), University of Tokyo circle CAST, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council as named in the release, Daihatsu Motor, Tokyo National College of Technology, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, Suzuki and Mazda. Supporters include the Cabinet Office, MEXT, METI, MLIT, Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama and prefectural and municipal boards of education.

The full supporter, special sponsor and sponsor rosters are transcribed in the main text; this card endorses none of the listed companies (prtimes#1770327).

Q: What does "first edition held with a Children's Dream Fund grant" mean, and how large was the grant?

Both the event report and the advance notice state that 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education). Neither release states the grant amount, the grant category or the application terms, and this site has not checked them.

The National Institution for Youth Education, which administers the fund, published "The Children's Dream Fund, opening children's futures, is changing" on the same day, 2026-08-01, but the body text held by this site is extremely short and does not state the specific content of the new system, so no inference about the direction of change may be drawn from the headline (prtimes#1770327, prtimes#602534, prtimes#1771183; see item 6 of the Basis and Limitations section).

Q: Can 5,531 be used as evidence that demand for children's science and engineering experiences is growing?

Not on its own. In the advance notice (2026-06-02) the organizer had already stated that exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024) and that 2026 was the first edition to receive a public grant — both supply-side changes. At the same time, "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B at the same Pacifico Yokohama on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026. The organizer attributes the change in visitor numbers to no single factor, and neither does this card.

All of the above are co-occurring facts verifiable verbatim in the respective releases, not causal evidence (prtimes#602534, prtimes#1770327, prtimes#1372352; see item 5 of the Basis and Limitations section).

Q: Did JSAE publish other event reports in the same year, and can the numbers be compared side by side?

They cannot be compared side by side. The association's "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA / NAGOYA Event Report" of 2026-07-03 records a YOKOHAMA three-day total of 80,493 visitors (with 79,808 for 2025 noted parenthetically in that release) and a NAGOYA three-day total of 34,227 (with 34,548 for 2025). That show is a B2B professional exhibition that the release confirms was held in both locations in both 2025 and 2026, so its baseline is the same show in the previous year; Kids Engineer is aimed at elementary school pupils and alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area, so its baseline is the previous Yokohama edition (2024). The populations and baselines differ.

This card transcribes the figures from both releases and computes no differences or ratios (prtimes#1308025, prtimes#1770327; see item 3 of the Basis and Limitations section).

F-Units

F-001: Per JSAE's event report, Kids Engineer 2026 was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama; it was the 18th edition and the 9th held in Yokohama, and the release states the event alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area. Visitors numbered 5,531, an increase of 1,865 against the 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition in 2024 (as stated in the release) - source: PRTIMES #1770327 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000121.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Event July 24-25, 2026; release published 2026-08-01 02:07 JST (converted from source metadata 2026-07-31 17:07:07 UTC) - caveat: Self-reported in the issuing entity's release (official_statement here means the issuing entity's own statement, not a government agency). "An increase of 1,865" (2026 Yokohama edition against the 2024 Yokohama edition) is transcribed from the release; this card computes no ratios. The baseline is the 2024 Yokohama edition, not the previous year - layer: main anchor (core fact of the main release)

F-002: The main release describes a programme structure of 20 classroom-type plus 12 exhibit-type activities and lists the names and providers of the 14 that appeared for the first time this year (exhibit-type B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K and classroom-type 10, 11, 15, 18, 19; providers include NIPPO, DUNLOP (Sumitomo Rubber Industries), Nihon University, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium, JSAE with cooperation from NSK, University of Tokyo science communication circle CAST, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council as named in the release, Daihatsu Motor, Tokyo National College of Technology, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, Suzuki and Mazda) - source: PRTIMES #1770327 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000121.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-08-01 (programmes run July 24-25, 2026) - caveat: Roster transcribed from the main release. The same entity's advance notice (prtimes#602534) lists the same 14 programmes, but this is agreement within the same source and not independent corroboration

F-003: The main release states that 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education) - source: PRTIMES #1770327 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000121.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Edition concerned = 2026; release published 2026-08-01 - caveat: The grant amount, category and application terms are not stated in the main release and have not been checked by this site. The same entity's advance notice (prtimes#602534, 2026-06-02) carries the same statement, i.e. the same source

F-004: The supporter, special sponsor and sponsor rosters transcribed from the main release (supporters include the Cabinet Office, MEXT, METI, MLIT, Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama, the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education, the boards of education of Yokohama, Kawasaki, Yokosuka, Kamakura, Fujisawa and Atsugi, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association, the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, the Japan Automobile Conference Council, The Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, The Mainichi Newspapers, tvk, the Smart City Institute and the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences; special sponsors include TE Connectivity Japan, SUBARU, Yamaha Motor, Honda Motor, HORIBA, NHK Spring, Mitsubishi Motors, SCSK, Daihatsu Motor, FORUM8, Astemo, Mazda, NIPPO, DENSO, AISIN, Hino Motors, Suzuki, Nissan Motor, DUNLOP, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium and Pacifico Yokohama; sponsors include Kawasaki Motors, NICHIRIN, TOKAI RIKA, SOKEN, Isuzu Motors and others) - source: PRTIMES #1770327 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000121.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-08-01 - caveat: Roster transcribed; this card offers no evaluation or endorsement and derives no company counts or set relationships from it. Full rosters appear in the main text

F-005: The same entity's advance notice (published 2026-06-02) states that JSAE holds the event in endorsement of MEXT's "Declaration for Promoting Children's Hands-on Activities"; that Kids Engineer has run since 2008 as a learning event for elementary school pupils and is in its 18th edition and 9th Yokohama edition; verbatim in the topics section that "compared with the previous Yokohama edition (2024), exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled"; that there are 14 new programmes; that classroom-type programmes require advance application in principle with a window from 10:00 on June 1 (Mon) to noon on June 30 (Tue), 2026, with some programmes accepting walk-ins this year; and that doors opened at 9:30 and closed at 17:00 on both July 24 and 25 - source: PRTIMES #602534 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000114.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-06-02 04:20 JST (event held July 24-25, 2026) - caveat: A release from the same issuing entity, JSAE, i.e. the same source as the main release and not independent corroboration. "Roughly doubled" is the release's wording about the number of programmes, not about visitors, and its baseline is the 2024 Yokohama edition - layer: ADD_EVIDENCE (supply-side changes recorded in a pre-event document)

F-006: The same entity's other 2026 event report (published 2026-07-03) states that the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA ran May 27-29, 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama and NAGOYA ran June 17-19, 2026 at Aichi Sky Expo, each over three days. YOKOHAMA daily figures were 24,544 (the release notes 23,196 for 2025), 24,993 (26,044), 30,956 (30,568), for a three-day total of 80,493 (79,808). NAGOYA daily figures were 9,679 (9,949), 10,783 (10,779), 13,765 (13,820), for a three-day total of 34,227 (34,548). Forum attendance was 2,679 across 12 sessions in Yokohama and 257 across three sessions in Nagoya. The theme was "Collaboration for Future Mobility" - source: PRTIMES #1308025 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000118.000041897.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Exhibitions held May 27-29, 2026 (YOKOHAMA) and June 17-19, 2026 (NAGOYA); parenthetical figures are the 2025 edition of the same show as noted in that release; release published 2026-07-03 - caveat: A release from the same issuing entity, JSAE, i.e. the same source as the main release. This is a B2B professional exhibition whose population and comparison baseline both differ from Kids Engineer, so the figures must not be converted into or compared against one another; this card computes no differences or ratios - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the same association's other event report in the same year; comparison of baselines)

F-007: The ITS Connect Promotion Consortium's release of 2026-07-07 states that it exhibited at Kids Engineer 2026; the venue was "Pacifico Yokohama, Exhibition Halls C and D, Booth E", dates July 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2026, audience elementary school pupils and their guardians, admission free, organizer JSAE. The booth required no reservation and offered an ambulance pull-back car assembly activity, an ITS Connect VR experience (with an age restriction per the release), a social-media follow giveaway and a photo panel. The consortium was established on October 28, 2014, with Kyocera, Sumitomo Electric Industries, DENSO, Toyota Motor, Toyota Tsusho, Hitachi and Renesas Electronics as executive member companies - source: PRTIMES #1347710 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000150797.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-07-07 19:00 JST (exhibited July 24-25, 2026) - caveat: An exhibitor's own release. This card takes only factual items such as venue, dates, participation conditions and booth content, and does not reproduce promotional wording - layer: ADD_EVIDENCE (pre-event record of hall location and booth content)

F-008: Wonderfy Inc.'s release of 2026-07-09 states that the experiential content "Aim to Be a Master Detective: Triple Mission!", co-developed with Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions' "Detective Conan Zemi", would run on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 inside the "asoview! Kids Festa" held at Pacifico Yokohama, Exhibition Hall B. The release also states that its educational app "Think! Think!" has been used by 3.5 million children cumulatively across 150 countries (as self-reported by the company) - source: PRTIMES #1372352 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000167.000012970.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-07-09; activity held July 24-25, 2026 - caveat: A release from a different issuing entity. It is used here only to establish co-occurrence at the same venue on the same dates and asserts no cross-traffic, cannibalisation or synergy with Kids Engineer (neither release states any such thing and this site has not checked it) - layer: CHALLENGE (constraint on attributing 5,531 to any single factor)

F-009: The National Institution for Youth Education's release of 2026-08-01 05:13 JST carries the headline "The Children's Dream Fund, opening children's futures, is changing". The body text held by this site is extremely short, and the only citable elements are phrases such as "The power of experience delivered to children - examples of grant-funded activities", "Guide to the new Children's Dream Fund system", the department name "National Institution for Youth Education, Children's Dream Fund Department", and a note that detailed materials are available elsewhere - source: PRTIMES #1771183 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000003.000188047.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-08-01 05:13 JST - caveat: The body text held by this site is extremely short, the specific content of the new system is not stated, and this site has not checked it. No inference about direction, amount or scope may be drawn from the headline's "is changing". The link to the main release is limited to the co-occurrence of two facts: the main release states this was the first edition funded by the fund, and the administering institution issued a release the same day - layer: CONNECT (grant-side institutional development)

F-010: Sun Amenity Co., Ltd.'s release of 2026-06-29 states that with a Children's Dream Fund grant it will hold "Sailing Day! Miyakejima Blue Adventure" from September 19 (Sat) to September 23 (Wed, holiday), 2026, a five-day, three-night programme including one night aboard ship, for elementary fifth-graders through junior high school students resident in Saitama Prefecture, with a capacity of 15 (by lottery if oversubscribed) and a participation fee of 35,000 yen; a mandatory pre-event briefing was held on July 19 (Sun), 2026 at Nagatoro Genki Plaza - source: PRTIMES #1252114 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000106.000133674.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-06-29; event scheduled September 19-23, 2026 - caveat: A release from a different issuing entity. This card does not mix these figures with those of the main release in a single comparative sentence and confines itself to a qualitative parallel (projects supported by the same fund differ in target scope, capacity and fee structure) - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (another grant case from the same fund)

F-011: JTEKT Corporation's release of 2026-05-29 states that the company received the Technological Development Award at the 76th JSAE Awards, organized by JSAE, for its steer-by-wire system; recipients were Kenji Shibata, Hajime Uemae and Yoshio Kudo of Toyota Motor, Nobuyori Nakajima of DENSO and Ko Nishimura of JTEKT. The release also states that the JSAE Awards were established in 1951, that six award categories now exist by type of recipient, and that the Technological Development Award targets individuals and their co-developers who have developed new products or technologies useful to the advancement of automotive technology - source: PRTIMES #579919 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000579.000028729.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-05-29 (76th JSAE Awards) - caveat: A release from the award recipient, not from JSAE. Used only as a factual record of the association's functions; this card draws no inference about resource allocation or priorities - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (another function of the same association)

F-012: Benesse Corporation's release of 2026-07-24 states that its "Shinkenzemi Elementary Course" surveyed 10,699 children, centred on grades 3 to 6, and 918 guardians of elementary school pupils about summer-holiday homework and how the holiday is spent. The hardest assignment was "independent research / crafts" at 27.4% among children (followed by "book reports" at 25.9%) and 40.1% among guardians (the release states 45.3% for 2025, so 2026 is 5.2 percentage points lower than 2025). Where independent research was assigned, 91.6% of guardians said they help with all or part of it or give advice (the release states 94.4% for 2025, so 2026 is 2.8 percentage points lower than 2025). Children targeting completion "by the end of July" were 38.9% in 2026 (the release states 31.6% for 2025, so 2026 is 7.3 percentage points higher than 2025) - source: PRTIMES #1673313 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001478.000000120.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-07-24; subject = the 2026 survey (the release also reports its 2025 survey alongside) - caveat: A sample survey, not a census. The population consists of respondents connected to that course (10,699 children and 918 guardians; the release also notes exclusions and adjusted denominators for some questions) and must not be extrapolated to all elementary school pupils or all households. No stated connection to JSAE - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (demand-side material)

F-013: The Kanagawa branch of the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) stated in its release of 2026-07-29 that it will hold "Parent and Child Head-to-Head: Summer E-Motorsport Experience" on August 22 (Sat), 2026 from 10:00 to 16:00 at the JAF Kanagawa branch office (2-1-8 Katakura, Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama), using "Gran Turismo 7", recruiting 10 pairs / 40 people in 30-minute time slots, free of charge, and that this is the branch's first e-motorsport experience event - source: PRTIMES #1721073 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000007346.000010088.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-07-29; event scheduled August 22, 2026 - caveat: A different organisation on a different scale, recorded only as a parallel instance of a similar activity and not compared with the main release's figures in the same sentence. No stated connection to JSAE - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (peer-side children's and family programme)

F-014: The release of 2026-07-07 from Yokohama International Peace Conference Center Co., Ltd. (Pacifico Yokohama) states that Pacifico Yokohama opened in 1991 and marked its 35th anniversary in 2026, and self-reports that "more than 30,000 events have been held here, and cumulative visitors reached 100 million as of the end of November 2025". The conference centre comprises roughly 50 meeting rooms of various sizes, and an unveiling ceremony for large bokusho graphic artworks is scheduled for August 19 (Wed), 2026, 13:30-14:00 - source: PRTIMES #1348938 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000042.000013600.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2026-07-07; cumulative figure as of the end of November 2025 (self-reported in that release) - caveat: Venue-side self-reported figures, unverified by this site. No stated connection to Kids Engineer; used only as context on venue scale - layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (venue context)

J-Units

J-001: Official-anchor basis and the same-source boundary: the selector records official_count_verified=0, official_count_raw=0 and official_attribution_unverified_count=0, so this card carries zero verified official anchors. All 11 sources are PR TIMES releases, and prtimes#1770327, #602534 and #1308025 come from the same issuing entity, the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, meaning the same source and no independent corroboration between them; the remaining eight come from different issuing entities. JSAE is a public-interest incorporated association (an academic body), not a government agency. Every figure is self-reported in its release and unverified by this site — any citation of this card must carry this basis and must not treat the content as an official endorsement or as a third-party-verified fact. This card reports in neutral factual language, does not promote and endorses no company or organisation - confidence: high - basis: official_statement

J-002: The difference in comparison baselines (this card's core caution): JSAE's two 2026 event reports use different baselines — the Kids Engineer report uses "the previous Yokohama edition (2024)" and states an increase of 1,865 in words (prtimes#1770327), while the Automotive Engineering Exposition report uses the 2025 edition of the same show as noted parenthetically in that release (prtimes#1308025). The institutional reason is verifiable within the main release itself: Kids Engineer alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area per that release, so no prior-year, same-city comparison exists, whereas the Automotive Engineering Exposition was held in both locations in both 2025 and 2026 so far as that release confirms. Any citation of "5,531" must carry the baseline "versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024)" with it and must not convert or compare it against the exposition's figures (different events, different populations, different baselines) - confidence: high - basis: official_statement

J-003: Attribution constraint: the main release attributes the change in visitor numbers to no single factor, and neither does this card. What can honestly be recorded are three co-occurring documentary facts — (a) in the advance notice (prtimes#602534, 2026-06-02) the organizer stated that exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024) and that 2026 was the first edition to receive a Children's Dream Fund grant; (b) the event report (prtimes#1770327) records 5,531 visitors at the 2026 Yokohama edition, an increase of 1,865 against 3,666 at the 2024 Yokohama edition; (c) on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026 and at the same Pacifico Yokohama, "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B (prtimes#1372352) while the Kids Engineer booth is recorded in Exhibition Halls C and D (prtimes#1347710). No causal, cross-traffic or synergy relationship among (a), (b) and (c) is stated in any release and none has been checked by this site — reading 5,531 as the result of a single factor exceeds what the available documents can support - confidence: high - basis: official_statement

J-004: The strength boundary of the grant-side material: the body text of prtimes#1771183 held by this site is extremely short, citable only down to the headline and department name, with no statement of the specific content of the new system and no verification by this site — this card therefore records only the co-occurrence of two facts, namely that the main release states 2026 was the first edition funded by the Children's Dream Fund and that the fund's administering institution issued a notice about a new system on the same day, 2026-08-01. No inference about the direction, amount or scope of any change, or about any connection to this event, may be drawn from the headline's "is changing". The figures in prtimes#1252114 (another grant case from the same fund) belong to a different project, so this card does not place them in a single comparative sentence with the main release's figures and confines itself to a qualitative parallel - confidence: high - basis: official_statement

P-Units

P-001: The specific content of the Children's Dream Fund's new system (eligible projects, grant categories, amounts) — not checked by this site; verifiable once the institution publishes its materials (open) ### P-002: The location of Kids Engineer 2027 (per the alternating pattern stated in the releases, a Nagoya-area edition), its programme counts, visitor numbers and whether the Children's Dream Fund grant continues — awaiting future announcements from the organizer (open) ### P-003: The counting basis of the visitor figure in the main release (whether guardians are included, whether exhibitor staff are included, whether it is a cumulative day-by-day count) — not stated in the main release and not checked by this site (open)

Three Perspectives on the Same Event / 同事件・三視角 / 同一イベント・三つの視点

Internal citation chain

This card references three already-published cards on this site:

Sources

1. [PRTIMES #1770327] (main anchor) PR TIMES (release from the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan; issuing entity's first-party material), English title: "Kids Engineer 2026 Event Report" (Japanese original: 「キッズエンジニア2026 開催報告」), published 2026-08-01 02:07 JST (converted from source metadata 2026-07-31 17:07:07 UTC). https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000121.000041897.html 2. [PRTIMES #602534] PR TIMES (release from the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan), English title: "Kids Engineer 2026 to Be Held (Media Advisory)" (Japanese original: 「キッズエンジニア2026開催（取材のご案内）」), published 2026-06-02. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000114.000041897.html 3. [PRTIMES #1308025] PR TIMES (release from the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan), English title: "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA / NAGOYA Event Report" (Japanese original: 「人とくるまのテクノロジー展 2026 YOKOHAMA・NAGOYA　開催報告」), published 2026-07-03. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000118.000041897.html 4. [PRTIMES #1347710] PR TIMES (release from the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium), English title: "No Reservation, Free Admission: ITS Connect Promotion Consortium Exhibits at the Summer Event Kids Engineer 2026", published 2026-07-07. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000150797.html 5. [PRTIMES #1372352] PR TIMES (release from Wonderfy Inc.), English title: "Detective Conan Zemi x Think! Think! 'Aim to Be a Master Detective: Triple Mission!' to Run at Pacifico Yokohama on July 24 and 25", published 2026-07-09. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000167.000012970.html 6. [PRTIMES #1771183] PR TIMES (release from the National Institution for Youth Education), English title: "The Children's Dream Fund, Opening Children's Futures, Is Changing" (Japanese original: 「子どもの未来をひらく「子どもゆめ基金」が変わります」), published 2026-08-01 05:13 JST. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000003.000188047.html 7. [PRTIMES #1252114] PR TIMES (release from Sun Amenity Co., Ltd.), English title: "For Elementary Fifth-Graders to Junior High Students: Applications Open for a Five-Day, Three-Night Camp on Miyakejima with Snorkelling and Stargazing (Children's Dream Fund Grant Project)", published 2026-06-29. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000106.000133674.html 8. [PRTIMES #579919] PR TIMES (release from JTEKT Corporation), English title: "JTEKT Receives the Technological Development Award at the 76th JSAE Awards for Its Steer-by-Wire System", published 2026-05-29. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000579.000028729.html 9. [PRTIMES #1673313] PR TIMES (release from Benesse Corporation), English title: "Elementary School Summer Homework and Holiday Survey 2026: About 40% Aim to Finish Homework by the End of July", published 2026-07-24. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001478.000000120.html 10. [PRTIMES #1721073] PR TIMES (release from the Japan Automobile Federation), English title: "JAF Kanagawa: 'Parent and Child Head-to-Head' Summer E-Motorsport Experience to Be Held for the First Time on Saturday, August 22", published 2026-07-29. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000007346.000010088.html 11. [PRTIMES #1348938] PR TIMES (release from Yokohama International Peace Conference Center Co., Ltd.), English title: "Pacifico Yokohama 35th Anniversary: Unveiling Ceremony for Large Bokusho Graphic Artworks", published 2026-07-07. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000042.000013600.html

📊 引用級事實單元（F-Units）

Per JSAE's event report, Kids Engineer 2026 was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama; it was the 18th edition and the 9th held in Yokohama, and the release states the event alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area. Visitors numbered 5,531, an increase of 1,865 against the 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition in 2024 (as stated in the release)
F-001 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1770327 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Event July 24-25, 2026; release published 2026-08-01 02:07 JST (converted from source metadata 2026-07-31 17:07:07 UTC)
The main release describes a programme structure of 20 classroom-type plus 12 exhibit-type activities and lists the names and providers of the 14 that appeared for the first time this year (exhibit-type B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K and classroom-type 10, 11, 15, 18, 19; providers include NIPPO, DUNLOP (Sumitomo Rubber Industries), Nihon University, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium, JSAE with cooperation from NSK, University of Tokyo science communication circle CAST, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council as named in the release, Daihatsu Motor, Tokyo National College of Technology, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, Suzuki and Mazda)
F-002 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1770327 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Release published 2026-08-01 (programmes run July 24-25, 2026)
The main release states that 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education)
F-003 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1770327 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Edition concerned = 2026; release published 2026-08-01
The supporter, special sponsor and sponsor rosters transcribed from the main release (supporters include the Cabinet Office, MEXT, METI, MLIT, Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama, the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education, the boards of education of Yokohama, Kawasaki, Yokosuka, Kamakura, Fujisawa and Atsugi, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association, the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, the Japan Automobile Conference Council, The Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, The Mainichi Newspapers, tvk, the Smart City Institute and the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences; special sponsors include TE Connectivity Japan, SUBARU, Yamaha Motor, Honda Motor, HORIBA, NHK Spring, Mitsubishi Motors, SCSK, Daihatsu Motor, FORUM8, Astemo, Mazda, NIPPO, DENSO, AISIN, Hino Motors, Suzuki, Nissan Motor, DUNLOP, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium and Pacifico Yokohama; sponsors include Kawasaki Motors, NICHIRIN, TOKAI RIKA, SOKEN, Isuzu Motors and others)
F-004 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1770327 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Release published 2026-08-01
The same entity's advance notice (published 2026-06-02) states that JSAE holds the event in endorsement of MEXT's "Declaration for Promoting Children's Hands-on Activities"; that Kids Engineer has run since 2008 as a learning event for elementary school pupils and is in its 18th edition and 9th Yokohama edition; verbatim in the topics section that "compared with the previous Yokohama edition (2024), exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled"; that there are 14 new programmes; that classroom-type programmes require advance application in principle with a window from 10:00 on June 1 (Mon) to noon on June 30 (Tue), 2026, with some programmes accepting walk-ins this year; and that doors opened at 9:30 and closed at 17:00 on both July 24 and 25
F-005 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #602534 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-06-02 04:20 JST (event held July 24-25, 2026)
The same entity's other 2026 event report (published 2026-07-03) states that the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA ran May 27-29, 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama and NAGOYA ran June 17-19, 2026 at Aichi Sky Expo, each over three days. YOKOHAMA daily figures were 24,544 (the release notes 23,196 for 2025), 24,993 (26,044), 30,956 (30,568), for a three-day total of 80,493 (79,808). NAGOYA daily figures were 9,679 (9,949), 10,783 (10,779), 13,765 (13,820), for a three-day total of 34,227 (34,548). Forum attendance was 2,679 across 12 sessions in Yokohama and 257 across three sessions in Nagoya. The theme was "Collaboration for Future Mobility"
F-006 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1308025 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Exhibitions held May 27-29, 2026 (YOKOHAMA) and June 17-19, 2026 (NAGOYA); parenthetical figures are the 2025 edition of the same show as noted in that release; release published 2026-07-03
The ITS Connect Promotion Consortium's release of 2026-07-07 states that it exhibited at Kids Engineer 2026; the venue was "Pacifico Yokohama, Exhibition Halls C and D, Booth E", dates July 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2026, audience elementary school pupils and their guardians, admission free, organizer JSAE. The booth required no reservation and offered an ambulance pull-back car assembly activity, an ITS Connect VR experience (with an age restriction per the release), a social-media follow giveaway and a photo panel. The consortium was established on October 28, 2014, with Kyocera, Sumitomo Electric Industries, DENSO, Toyota Motor, Toyota Tsusho, Hitachi and Renesas Electronics as executive member companies
F-007 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1347710 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-07-07 19:00 JST (exhibited July 24-25, 2026)
Wonderfy Inc.'s release of 2026-07-09 states that the experiential content "Aim to Be a Master Detective: Triple Mission!", co-developed with Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions' "Detective Conan Zemi", would run on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 inside the "asoview! Kids Festa" held at Pacifico Yokohama, Exhibition Hall B. The release also states that its educational app "Think! Think!" has been used by 3.5 million children cumulatively across 150 countries (as self-reported by the company)
F-008 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1372352 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-07-09; activity held July 24-25, 2026
The National Institution for Youth Education's release of 2026-08-01 05:13 JST carries the headline "The Children's Dream Fund, opening children's futures, is changing". The body text held by this site is extremely short, and the only citable elements are phrases such as "The power of experience delivered to children - examples of grant-funded activities", "Guide to the new Children's Dream Fund system", the department name "National Institution for Youth Education, Children's Dream Fund Department", and a note that detailed materials are available elsewhere
F-009 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1771183 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Release published 2026-08-01 05:13 JST
Sun Amenity Co., Ltd.'s release of 2026-06-29 states that with a Children's Dream Fund grant it will hold "Sailing Day! Miyakejima Blue Adventure" from September 19 (Sat) to September 23 (Wed, holiday), 2026, a five-day, three-night programme including one night aboard ship, for elementary fifth-graders through junior high school students resident in Saitama Prefecture, with a capacity of 15 (by lottery if oversubscribed) and a participation fee of 35,000 yen; a mandatory pre-event briefing was held on July 19 (Sun), 2026 at Nagatoro Genki Plaza
F-010 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1252114 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-06-29; event scheduled September 19-23, 2026
JTEKT Corporation's release of 2026-05-29 states that the company received the Technological Development Award at the 76th JSAE Awards, organized by JSAE, for its steer-by-wire system; recipients were Kenji Shibata, Hajime Uemae and Yoshio Kudo of Toyota Motor, Nobuyori Nakajima of DENSO and Ko Nishimura of JTEKT. The release also states that the JSAE Awards were established in 1951, that six award categories now exist by type of recipient, and that the Technological Development Award targets individuals and their co-developers who have developed new products or technologies useful to the advancement of automotive technology
F-011 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #579919 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-05-29 (76th JSAE Awards)
Benesse Corporation's release of 2026-07-24 states that its "Shinkenzemi Elementary Course" surveyed 10,699 children, centred on grades 3 to 6, and 918 guardians of elementary school pupils about summer-holiday homework and how the holiday is spent. The hardest assignment was "independent research / crafts" at 27.4% among children (followed by "book reports" at 25.9%) and 40.1% among guardians (the release states 45.3% for 2025, so 2026 is 5.2 percentage points lower than 2025). Where independent research was assigned, 91.6% of guardians said they help with all or part of it or give advice (the release states 94.4% for 2025, so 2026 is 2.8 percentage points lower than 2025). Children targeting completion "by the end of July" were 38.9% in 2026 (the release states 31.6% for 2025, so 2026 is 7.3 percentage points higher than 2025)
F-012 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1673313 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Release published 2026-07-24; subject = the 2026 survey (the release also reports its 2025 survey alongside)
The Kanagawa branch of the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) stated in its release of 2026-07-29 that it will hold "Parent and Child Head-to-Head: Summer E-Motorsport Experience" on August 22 (Sat), 2026 from 10:00 to 16:00 at the JAF Kanagawa branch office (2-1-8 Katakura, Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama), using "Gran Turismo 7", recruiting 10 pairs / 40 people in 30-minute time slots, free of charge, and that this is the branch's first e-motorsport experience event
F-013 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1721073 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Release published 2026-07-29; event scheduled August 22, 2026
The release of 2026-07-07 from Yokohama International Peace Conference Center Co., Ltd. (Pacifico Yokohama) states that Pacifico Yokohama opened in 1991 and marked its 35th anniversary in 2026, and self-reports that "more than 30,000 events have been held here, and cumulative visitors reached 100 million as of the end of November 2025". The conference centre comprises roughly 50 meeting rooms of various sizes, and an unveiling ceremony for large bokusho graphic artworks is scheduled for August 19 (Wed), 2026, 13:30-14:00
F-014 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement PRTIMES #1348938 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 Release published 2026-07-07; cumulative figure as of the end of November 2025 (self-reported in that release)

❓ FAQ

When and where was Kids Engineer 2026 held, and how many people attended?

Per JSAE's event report (PR TIMES release): it was held over two days on July 24 (Fri) and 25 (Sat), 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama, with 5,531 visitors. The release states that against 3,666 total visitors at the previous Yokohama edition (2024), this year (2026) drew 5,531, an increase of 1,865. It was the 18th edition overall and the 9th held in Yokohama. The release states that the event alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area, which is why the baseline is the previous Yokohama edition (2024) rather than the previous year; any citation must carry that baseline (prtimes#1770327; see the Basis and Limitations section).

What programmes were offered and which companies took part?

The release states a structure of 20 classroom-type and 12 exhibit-type programmes, of which 14 appeared for the first time this year. Providers of the new programmes include NIPPO, DUNLOP (Sumitomo Rubber Industries), Nihon University, the ITS Connect Promotion Consortium, JSAE (with cooperation from NSK), University of Tokyo circle CAST, the U.S. Grains and Bioproducts Council as named in the release, Daihatsu Motor, Tokyo National College of Technology, Nichinan, Toyota Motor, Suzuki and Mazda. Supporters include the Cabinet Office, MEXT, METI, MLIT, Kanagawa Prefecture, the City of Yokohama and prefectural and municipal boards of education. The full supporter, special sponsor and sponsor rosters are transcribed in the main text; this card endorses none of the listed companies (prtimes#1770327).

What does "first edition held with a Children's Dream Fund grant" mean, and how large was the grant?

Both the event report and the advance notice state that 2026 was the first edition held with a grant from the Children's Dream Fund (Kodomo Yume Kikin, National Institution for Youth Education). Neither release states the grant amount, the grant category or the application terms, and this site has not checked them. The National Institution for Youth Education, which administers the fund, published "The Children's Dream Fund, opening children's futures, is changing" on the same day, 2026-08-01, but the body text held by this site is extremely short and does not state the specific content of the new system, so no inference about the direction of change may be drawn from the headline (prtimes#1770327, prtimes#602534, prtimes#1771183; see item 6 of the Basis and Limitations section).

Can 5,531 be used as evidence that demand for children's science and engineering experiences is growing?

Not on its own. In the advance notice (2026-06-02) the organizer had already stated that exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024) and that 2026 was the first edition to receive a public grant — both supply-side changes. At the same time, "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B at the same Pacifico Yokohama on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026. The organizer attributes the change in visitor numbers to no single factor, and neither does this card. All of the above are co-occurring facts verifiable verbatim in the respective releases, not causal evidence (prtimes#602534, prtimes#1770327, prtimes#1372352; see item 5 of the Basis and Limitations section).

Did JSAE publish other event reports in the same year, and can the numbers be compared side by side?

They cannot be compared side by side. The association's "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2026 YOKOHAMA / NAGOYA Event Report" of 2026-07-03 records a YOKOHAMA three-day total of 80,493 visitors (with 79,808 for 2025 noted parenthetically in that release) and a NAGOYA three-day total of 34,227 (with 34,548 for 2025). That show is a B2B professional exhibition that the release confirms was held in both locations in both 2025 and 2026, so its baseline is the same show in the previous year; Kids Engineer is aimed at elementary school pupils and alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area, so its baseline is the previous Yokohama edition (2024). The populations and baselines differ. This card transcribes the figures from both releases and computes no differences or ratios (prtimes#1308025, prtimes#1770327; see item 3 of the Basis and Limitations section). ---

🧠 編輯判斷（J-Units）

Official-anchor basis and the same-source boundary: the selector records official_count_verified=0, official_count_raw=0 and official_attribution_unverified_count=0, so this card carries zero verified official anchors. All 11 sources are PR TIMES releases, and prtimes#1770327, #602534 and #1308025 come from the same issuing entity, the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, meaning the same source and no independent corroboration between them; the remaining eight come from different issuing entities. JSAE is a public-interest incorporated association (an academic body), not a government agency. Every figure is self-reported in its release and unverified by this site — any citation of this card must carry this basis and must not treat the content as an official endorsement or as a third-party-verified fact. This card reports in neutral factual language, does not promote and endorses no company or organisation
Confidence: high
The difference in comparison baselines (this card's core caution): JSAE's two 2026 event reports use different baselines — the Kids Engineer report uses "the previous Yokohama edition (2024)" and states an increase of 1,865 in words (prtimes#1770327), while the Automotive Engineering Exposition report uses the 2025 edition of the same show as noted parenthetically in that release (prtimes#1308025). The institutional reason is verifiable within the main release itself: Kids Engineer alternates between Yokohama and the Nagoya area per that release, so no prior-year, same-city comparison exists, whereas the Automotive Engineering Exposition was held in both locations in both 2025 and 2026 so far as that release confirms. Any citation of "5,531" must carry the baseline "versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024)" with it and must not convert or compare it against the exposition's figures (different events, different populations, different baselines)
Confidence: high
Attribution constraint: the main release attributes the change in visitor numbers to no single factor, and neither does this card. What can honestly be recorded are three co-occurring documentary facts — (a) in the advance notice (prtimes#602534, 2026-06-02) the organizer stated that exhibit-type programmes available for walk-in participation roughly doubled versus the previous Yokohama edition (2024) and that 2026 was the first edition to receive a Children's Dream Fund grant; (b) the event report (prtimes#1770327) records 5,531 visitors at the 2026 Yokohama edition, an increase of 1,865 against 3,666 at the 2024 Yokohama edition; (c) on the same two days of July 24-25, 2026 and at the same Pacifico Yokohama, "asoview! Kids Festa" was held in Exhibition Hall B (prtimes#1372352) while the Kids Engineer booth is recorded in Exhibition Halls C and D (prtimes#1347710). No causal, cross-traffic or synergy relationship among (a), (b) and (c) is stated in any release and none has been checked by this site — reading 5,531 as the result of a single factor exceeds what the available documents can support
Confidence: high
The strength boundary of the grant-side material: the body text of prtimes#1771183 held by this site is extremely short, citable only down to the headline and department name, with no statement of the specific content of the new system and no verification by this site — this card therefore records only the co-occurrence of two facts, namely that the main release states 2026 was the first edition funded by the Children's Dream Fund and that the fund's administering institution issued a notice about a new system on the same day, 2026-08-01. No inference about the direction, amount or scope of any change, or about any connection to this event, may be drawn from the headline's "is changing". The figures in prtimes#1252114 (another grant case from the same fund) belong to a different project, so this card does not place them in a single comparative sentence with the main release's figures and confines itself to a qualitative parallel
Confidence: high

🔮 待驗證假設（P-Units）

The specific content of the Children's Dream Fund's new system (eligible projects, grant categories, amounts) — not checked by this site; verifiable once the institution publishes its materials (open)
Status: open
The location of Kids Engineer 2027 (per the alternating pattern stated in the releases, a Nagoya-area edition), its programme counts, visitor numbers and whether the Children's Dream Fund grant continues — awaiting future announcements from the organizer (open)
Status: open
The counting basis of the visitor figure in the main release (whether guardians are included, whether exhibitor staff are included, whether it is a cumulative day-by-day count) — not stated in the main release and not checked by this site (open)
Status: open

Verification Record

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