Akihiko Watanabe

Berlitz Corp. owns and franchises language centers. It provides language instruction and translation services. It offers courses to adults, teenagers, and children through study-abroad programs, summer camps, face-to-face instruction, books, videotape, audio cassettes, and CDs. The company was founded by Maximilian D. Berlitz in 1878 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Tokyu Land Corp. engages in the property development industry. It operates through the following segments: Real Estate Sales, Contracted Construction, Retail Sales, Leasing of Real Estate, Property Management, Facility Operations, Real-estate Agents, and Other. The Real Estate Sales segment provides the development and sale of condominiums, housing, and buildings. The Contracted Construction segment establishes and renovates high-rise residential and detached houses. The Retail Sales segment conducts retail sales of living products and do-it-yourself materials. The Leasing of Real Estate segment handles apartments, shopping centers, office buildings, and hotels for rent. The Property Management segment deals with general administration of buildings and condominiums. The Facility Operations segment manages and develops golf courses, resort-hotel membership, ski resorts, fitness clubs, and senior citizen housing. The Real Estate Agents segment serves as property sales representatives. The Other segment commissions business appraisals through its subsidiaries. The company was founded on December 17, 1953 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyu Community Corp. provides property management services for condominiums and office buildings. Its services include building management, life support, community development support, renovation, repairs, and energy conservation. The company was founded on April 8, 1970 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mizuho Bank Ltd. engages in financial service business. It offers services such as buying and selling of securities, lending, deposits, securities investment, domestic exchange settlement, foreign exchanges transaction, and corporate bond trustee and register services. It also deals in buying and selling of gold, public bond underwriting, sale of public bonds, lottery, trust agent, and consulting services. The company was founded on May 7, 1923 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Trustee Services Bank Ltd. engages in the provision of securities processing services. It manages securities related to retirement benefit trust, pension trust, independently designated money trust, specified money trust, securities investment trust, managed securities trust and investment securities trust. It also handles surplus management, lending, foreign exchange transactions, custody, account management institution business, trust business related to asset management and banking business. The company was founded on June 20, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyu Livable Inc. engages in the purchase, sale, leasing and brokerage of real estate properties. It operates through the following segments: Sales Agency, Real Estate Sales, Purchase or Sale Brokerage, Real Estate Solutions, Rental Brokerage and Others. The Sales Agency segment engages in the sale of new residential lots, condominiums and houses. The Real Estate Sales segment engages in the sale of condominiums lots and detached houses. The Purchase or Sale Brokerage segment provides services tailored to the needs of each individual customers. The Real Estate Solutions segment provides brokerage and advisory services, business recovery assistance, auction management, real estate purchase and capital investment, asset valuation and surveys; and asset management services. The Rental Brokerage segment provides support services to the facilitate rental management with various options for the owners. The Others segment includes equity and investment, insurance agency and real estate appraisal businesses. The company was founded on March 10, 1972 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp., Tokyu Hands, Inc. operates a chain of department stores. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Cosmo Paper Trading Co., Ltd. is engaged in marketing papers and paperboards. The company also markets, adhesives, chemical resin, building and packaging materials, and machinery. Cosmo Paper Trading was established 1963 and is based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Aichi, Osaka, Shizuoka, and Kyushu Prefectures.

Part of Tosei Corp., Tosei Revival Investments Co., Ltd. engages in real estate investment and securitization and underwriting of commercial backed-mortgages. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Nomura International HK) is the brokerage subsidiary of Nomura Asia Pacific Holdings Co. Ltd., which is ultimately-owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the firm’s global markets team offers research, sales and trading of global securities to a diverse range of clients globally, including institutional investors, financial institutions, corporates, financial sponsors and government entities. Nomura International HK operates a truly integrated, cross-asset platform which includes research, sales and trading in equities, currencies, rates and credit in cash and derivative products.

ALC Press, Inc. engages in the language education business. It deals with the planning, production and provision of language-related publications, e-learning materials, corporate language training, web services, and digital contents. It also holds seminars and diagnostic exams. The company was founded by Terumaro Hiramoto in April 1969 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

JAFCO Group Co. Ltd. (JAFCO Group) is the private equity arm of the parent firm, JAFCO (TSE: 8595), founded in 1973. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., Eco Paper JP Co., Ltd. is a company that produces papers. The company is based in Owariasahi, Japan.

Digital Vorn Co., Ltd. is a business consulting Japanese company that offers services such as RPA, data analysis, IT consulting, PMO, SaaS introduction support, DX support, system development and introduction operation support, digital marketing, IT infrastructure construction, mechatronics design, and more. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Digital Vorn Co. utilizes innovative technology and digital data to help their clients succeed with their imagination, action, and passion, and create a more shining future.

National Students Information Center KK engages in the business of managing and supporting condominium services for students. It also engages in tenant recruitment and resident services. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

Seiyu GK engages in the operation of retail chain of groceries, clothing, and home appliance store. The company was founded in April 1963 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., Japan Pulp & Paper (USA) Corp. trades and wholesales paper. The company is based in Buford, GA.

Part of Panasonic Holdings Corp., AVC Networks Co. is a Japanese company that manufactures electronic products. The company is based in Kadoma, Japan.

Digital Post Co. Ltd. engages in web service digital post business. It provides printing, mailing cloud and application programming interface (API) services. The company was founded September 9, 2011 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Tosei Corp., Tosei Asset Advisors, Inc. is a Japanese real estate company founded in 2005. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company creates new value and excitement in the real estate scene as a heartfelt professional group with ideas.

Emiall KK (Emiall) is a venture capital arm of Emiall KK founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp., Tokyu Housing Lease Corp. is a real estate asset management company based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company integrates various rental housing operations such as Tokyu Livable, Tokyu Community, Tokyu Relocation Rental Housing Operation, and Company House Agency to support the operation management of rental properties. The company's corporate philosophy is to contribute to society through the real estate business by understanding the needs of clients and providing the highest level of service. The company is an innovation partner for asset management, mainly for real estate investment such as rental management.

AWESOME JAPAN KK provides crowd funding platform for business start ups through its overseas expansion support project. Its services include project start-up support, overseas promotions, localized support, research and overseas market development and construction. The company was founded on November 1, 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

TFHD Open Innovation Program is a Venture Capital arm of Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp. (TK:3289) founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

Angel Bridge KK (Angel Bridge) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2015 by Yutaro Kasai and Masaei Hayashi. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

Part of Softfront Holdings, SITE PUBLIS Co., Ltd. is a domestic commercial CMS product provider. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. "Site publis" has gained trust and achievements over 19 years of development and sales, and has a large number of introductions to major companies, central ministries, and local governments. The Japanese company was founded in 2017 and offers packages and web services centered on CMS. SITE PUBLIS Co. was acquired by Softfront Holdings from Digital Vorn Co., Ltd. on November 29, 2021 for $2.98 million.