Chikara Mochizuki is the founder and principal of Moonlight International Preschool and Full Moon Internaitonal Kodomoen. He was born in Chiba, Japan. He lived in New South Wales, Australia from ages 1 to 5, and in Michigan, America from ages 8 to 12. He attended Shibuya Makuhari High School, which was an assigned Super Global High School in Japan. He spent his school life mostly with returnees and exchange students interacting in English.

He loved playing with children and was interested in English education, which led him to pursue his first degree at the Faculty of International Education at Yamaguchi University. After graduation, he worked in Japanese public elementary/junior high schools, but due to his profound interest in international and English education, he decided to work at different educational institutions from kindergarten to high school that offers such education, all over the country.

He taught at Makuhari International School as a Japanese Coordinator/head of Japanese Department for 8 years at the kindergarten and elementary school departments. The school then went through the Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation process during his tenure as a member of the school’s steering committee.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne in Australia with a Master's degree in International Education (International Baccalaureate).

He likes to snowboard, play tennis, and spend quality time with his daughters in his free time.