Insource

What Insource is

Insource (株式会社インソース, Insource Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese corporate training company. Its homepage describes the business as people development, employee training and IT-driven productivity support, and it sells everything from instructor-led courses and public seminars to video materials, correspondence courses, assessments and HR consulting. The part that concerns this directory is Leaf (リーフ), the company's own LMS and HR support series, and the video course libraries that come bundled with some Leaf products. The reader is an HR or training department, or a government office, that needs to run and record staff training in Japanese.

Leaf is a family of products rather than one system. The site lists Leaf Lightning, described as a "多機能・マルチデバイスLMS" (multifunctional, multi-device LMS) and pitched as "教育のすべてをこれひとつで管理" (manage all of your training in this one system); Leaf Basic, an e-learning and training system that also handles personnel evaluation and stress checks; Leaf Lightning STUDIO, an LMS that comes with e-learning content; and Leaf inorder, a service for delivering e-learning to large numbers of staff. Industry versions include Tempo Study, an LMS for training store staff, and Leaf LGWAN Learning, which the site describes as an LGWAN-compatible LMS for municipalities only.

What the LMS does

Leaf's feature list is long and practical. For e-learning, administrators upload and stream video, record sessions to turn them into courses, and use slide courses built from PowerPoint or PDF with a guard against fast-forwarding through slides. A SCORM materials plan is offered for organizations with existing SCORM content. Other e-learning features include a lightweight video plan, which the site says keeps network load to a third or less, proxy upload of videos by Insource, video delivery inside an intranet or LGWAN, a block on logging in from several devices at once, course-based learning, content chains, a communication board and a dedicated smartphone screen. Leaf Translator generates multilingual subtitles for videos.

The same system manages classroom training. Administrators register courses, cap enrollment and take applications, select participants, build training groups and annual training plans, move dates, print seating charts and track venue and instructor schedules. It issues certificates of completion and admission slips, links to webinars and can drop learners straight into a web meeting. Tests and surveys come with automatic scoring, pass or fail judgments, shuffled questions, questions with images and time limits, plus an exam operation module called Leaf Exam Operation (LEO).

On the people side, Leaf handles bulk CSV registration, user permissions, supervisor approval, qualification records, updates when people join or change roles, and collection of personal and year-end tax adjustment documents. An English screen option, Leaf English, switches the interface language. Training history can be searched and exported, and the system sends manual and automatic emails, announcements and reminders to anyone falling behind. Course fees can be collected by bank transfer or card.

For integration, the feature list names single sign-on, automatic HR data links, an Excel macro for HR data, API links with other companies' systems, a published API called Leaf APIs, and Google Calendar integration. Customers can add their logo and change colors. Security features include IP restriction, face authentication, one-time passwords, automatic account lockout and password history control. Support options include an administrator portal called Leaf Greens, a dedicated server plan, a server that allows overseas IP access, an RPA tool for Leaf, and an AI option listed as "Leaf powered by 企業内GPT-4" (in-house GPT-4). A notice on the Leaf page says server capacity is being expanded in stages from December 1, 2025 to improve quality and availability.

Content libraries

What sets Leaf apart from a bare LMS is the content Insource produces itself. The site says Leaf Basic offers "動画載せ放題・見放題で、圧倒的に安い" (unlimited video uploads and viewing at a very low price). Leaf Lightning STUDIO gives unlimited viewing of selected videos by theme, lets customers upload as much of their own material as they like, and combines both with in-house training into courses. Leaf inorder adds topical videos every month, with the site naming SDGs and DX as examples, and pairs them with check tests so the learning sticks; the homepage notes that new videos for September were added.

Beyond the Leaf bundles, Insource sells its video materials separately through what it calls a video department store (動画百貨店), which offers free sample videos and a range of technical, human and conceptual skills titles. Recent releases on the homepage show the range: an introductory MBA series, a Microsoft Copilot course and a local government law series, which the news item prices "レンタルは月額1,870円から、全編買切パッケージは55万円" (rental from 1,870 yen a month, or 550,000 yen for the full set to keep). Set plans bundling several video titles also appear on the homepage.

The same catalog feeds Insource's live training, which a Leaf customer can track alongside the e-learning. The company sends instructors to client sites (講師派遣研修), runs public seminars (公開講座) and sells correspondence courses, with WEBinsource as its online booking system. Its training is sorted by theme (generative AI and data, DX and IT skills, communication, team building, business basics, management, writing and presenting, customer service, risk management and more), by level from executives and managers down to new hires and students, by department such as sales, HR and IT, and by industry, with manufacturing, finance, construction, healthcare and care, education and government among those listed.

Related HR tools

The Leaf line extends into HR. Leaf 人事評価システム turns existing evaluation sheets into web forms and automates submission, input and tallying, while Leaf Eva, a simpler evaluation system, comes with 100 template answers for evaluation sheets by industry and job title. A stress check support service covers everything from the survey to workplace improvement, and the homepage says the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (main ministry) has used it for 7 years in a row; a health management starter pack handles health checkup paperwork. These sit beside the LMS so that training records, evaluations and qualifications can live in one place.

Pricing and how to buy

The Leaf section links to pricing plans, an options list, package plans and a free trial (無料体験), but the pages read here show no figures for the LMS itself. Insource's own column on choosing an e-learning system advises buyers to check "基本料金にどのような機能が含まれるかどうか" (which features are included in the base fee) and recommends flat-rate pricing over pay-per-use, warning that per-video or per-view charges add up. Consultation and meeting booking are offered on every page.

Who it suits

Leaf fits Japanese organizations, from companies to ministries and municipalities, that want e-learning, classroom training administration, tests and HR records in one system and would rather buy ready-made video courses than produce everything themselves. The LGWAN version and the government training pages show it serves public offices as well as companies. The site calls Leaf Basic "日本最大級のLMS" (one of the largest LMSs in Japan). The catch is language and context: the product, its content and its documentation are in Japanese, and an English screen switch is the only sign of support for other languages, so it suits teams training a Japanese-speaking workforce.