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Keiwa College is a small liberal arts college in Niigata, Japan. It has developed several on-campus and community-based teacher training programs to assist students in the Department of English and Communication teacher education course and in-service English teachers in the area. Students are provided with opportunities to watch classes in action, gaining classroom experiences both on campus and in local schools before they start their teaching practice. Local English teachers can undertake practical workshops to further develop their English proficiency and their teaching skills. These interactions between the college and the community are referred to by the authors of this chapter as the 'feedback cycle'. They describe some of the programs they have developed for the feedback cycle over the years.