Hiroshi Kawamura

Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. engages in entertainment business centered on bookstore business. It sells and rents videos, DVDs, CDs, game software, and other entertainment contents. It also handles database marketing business through online and offline. The company was founded by Muneaki Masuda on March 24, 1983 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (NAM) is the wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604; NYSE: NMR) in Japan. Founded in 1959 as Nomura Securities Investment Trust Co., Ltd., the firm became Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. in 1997 when they merged with Nomura Investment Management Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Tokyo, NAM provides investment advisory services globally to a broad range of institutional investors as well as pooled investment vehicles, including private funds and Japanese investment trusts.

Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of life insurance services. It also sells investment trust and manages defined contribution pension plans. The company was founded in May 1907 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) is a wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 8604; NYSE: NMR). Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1925. NSC places a strong emphasis on research, both fundamental and quantitative. In addition to stock and bond underwriting, their activities include IPO and M&A advisory, wealth management, separately managed accounts, fund wrap services, prime brokerage and structured equity finance. Their clients include institutions, hedge funds, private banks and private equity funds as well as corporate clients and retail investors.

Nisshin Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. provides insurances services to fire, marine hull and cargo, inland transit, personal accident, ships passengers accident liability, voluntary automobile and compulsory automobile liability. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The Nomura Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. operates as a trust bank. It operates through the following business divisions: Trust Business, Banking Business, and Securities Business. The firm’s Trust Business division specializes in specified money trusts and specified pecuniary trusts; individually operated designated money and pecuniary trusts; jointly operated designated money trusts; composite trusts; pension trusts; investment trusts; securities trusts; and outsource services for investment trusts. Its Banking Business division engages in deposit taking, lending, domestic exchange business, and foreign exchange business. The firm’s Security Business division handles the investment trust, over-the-counter sales, and account administration business; corporate bond administration business; fiscal agent for corporate bonds; investment advisory and agency business; and investment management business. The company was founded on August 24, 1993 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Advanced Industrial Science & Technology is a research institute that focuses on solving social issues through the creation and practical use of technology. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. and has subsidiaries in Japan.

Part of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., NTT Data Frontier Corp. is a professional group that develops a wide range of systems, from mission-critical large-scale financial systems to web systems that use open source. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company's "bizxim corporation" is an integrated core business system that supports a series of business processes in the individual order-produced manufacturing industry.

Japan Securities Clearing Corp. provides clearing and settlement services for securities exchanges. It offers equities and bonds, futures and options, Japanese government bonds, credit default swap and interest rate swap products. The company was founded in July 2002 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Founded in 2004, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research is a Japanese market research company that provides market research services. Part of Nomura Holdings, Inc., the private company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Hitachi Solutions, Ltd. engages in the provision of information technology solutions and services. Its products include Microsoft Dynamics, HIBUN, SuperJ Engine Framework, Hitachi Solutions Geographical Information System, e-trasus, Credeon Cloud Data Protection, Credeon Secure Full-text Search, Entier, and C2X Middleware Platform. The company was founded on September 21, 1970 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Post Co. Ltd. provides postal, banking counter, insurance counter operations, sales of documentary stamps, logistics, real estate and others. Its services include international mail and express mail, standard mail, parcels, domestic mail and postcard distribution. The firm also provides property and casualty insurance business, domestic and international logistics, real estate brokerage and merchandise sales. The company was founded on October 1, 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Construction-ec.com Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that has been providing electronic contract services for 20 years. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company offers various electronic document exchange services, including electronic signature services such as CECTRUST-Light and Docusign. The company also provides cloud services for electronic commercial transactions, such as CIWEB, which supports the industry standard recommended by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The company aims to digitize commercial transactions to improve work efficiency and reduce costs.

Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. (Investment Management) (Japan Post Bank-IM) is the investment management division of Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. (TYO: 7182), a Japanese bank headquartered in Tokyo. The firm was founded in 2006 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (TYO: 6178). Japan Post Bank-IM provides comprehensive financial services to a wide range of individual clients.

Japan Overseas Infra Invt Corp for Trans & Urban Development engages in overseas infrastructure investment. Its business includes provision of sponsor support such as completion work guarantee and cost overrun. The company was founded on October 20, 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.