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Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd.
The aim: Driving innovation in the chemical industry with microwave technology The chemical industry has supported economic development by supplying raw materials to a wide variety of other industries essential to our daily lives, including automobiles, home appliances, clothing, and pharmaceuticals. However, smokestack industries have not seen significant innovation for over a century. The mission of Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd. is “Make Wave, Make World. Create a world we have never seen.” With its novel technology using microwaves – also…
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BABY JOB Inc.
Japan’s First Subscription Diaper Service, “Let’s Go to Daycare With Empty Hands,” Alleviating the Burden on Parents and Daycare Centers In 2015, then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet set out a policy “to build a society in which all 100 million people can play an active role,” with women’s social advancement as one of its main pillars. The problem of daycare centers has posed a significant challenge in their attempts to reach this goal. The issue was that child-rearing women were…
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ACALL Inc.
People’s lifestyles have diversified due to a declining birthrate, aging society, advances in IT, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, greater diversity is being called for in workstyles, which include sideline jobs and telework. “WorkstyleOS” that ACALL Inc. created is a platform that enables all employees of a given company to share who is working when and where by having the employees use their personal computers or other terminals to check in and check out and log their hours at registered…
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Akiya Katsuyo Co., Ltd
Of the 62.4 million homes in Japan, 8.49 million are currently vacant. The problem of vacant houses has become a pressing social issue alongside the nation’s declining birthrate, aging demographic, and declining population. In an effort to find a solution to this problem of vacant houses, Akiya Katsuyo created a database of vacant houses throughout the country and began a service that connects the owners of vacant houses to people who want to use such houses. By addressing the emotional…
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MiCAN Technologies, Inc.
The ongoing pandemic continues to shake our world. In order to realize global recovery and a return to normalcy, we will need a robust selection of effective vaccines and treatment options. To accelerate that process, MiCAN Technologies has introduced Mylc, a product line of artificially-produced human cells provided at precise, customizable specifications for use in testing and research. Mylc allows for dramatic improvements in speed and efficiency when studying and developing treatments for COVID-19 and other viral diseases, including dengue…
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I’mbesideyou Inc.
In 2020 when online classes and online meetings had become the norm amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, I’mbesideyou Inc. began offering services that analyzed videos of online communications so that it could help bring about a society where all people respect each other and where every encounter is a learning experience. These services of I’mbesideyou are already being applied in various situations. Take for example, a service that analyzes videos of online classes and visualizes communications between the instructors and their…
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Chinougijutsu Co., Ltd.
Chinougijutsu is a company that develops robot and AI technology based in Osaka City. It has solved many problems across industries, from the construction industry to the medical industry, for example, the development of technology to automate unmanned construction machinery to improve the safety of construction sites and AI sensors to prevent inpatient falls in hospitals. Ryoji Otsu, CEO of Chinougijutsu, worked for a company as an engineer. He started his business because of the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. A…
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EAGLYS Inc.
As the term Digital Transformation (DX) becomes increasingly entrenched in business culture, many companies are actively working towards incorporating data utilization into their digital strategies. However, very often, cybersecurity becomes an obstacle instead of a feature when a company attempts to commit to secure processing of data. This led EAGLYS Inc. on a search to find the solution to this dilemma. EAGLYS enables businesses to pursue their goals in data utilization, while assuring that their data is always protected –…
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MediGear International Corporation
The leading cause of death in Japan is cancer. While advances in treatment are leading to more lives saved, 2.6% of all cancer patients or about 500,000 sufferers worldwide are not receiving treatment. They give up their treatment because the physical and financial tolls are too onerous and/or an effective treatment method is unavailable. The therapeutic nanodevices being developed by MediGear International are trying to bring a ray of hope to the neglected cancer patients, known as “cancer refugees. Increased…
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AC Biode
Environmental pollution, climate change, and energy resource depletion are among the most urgent challenges facing society. One solution to such challenges is the world’s first standalone AC batteries developed by AC Biode. How did they move their business from startup to pilot testing in just two years—lightning speed for the electrical industry? Because they used existing materials and existing battery production lines, dramatically cutting development time and cost. After graduating from university, CEO Tadashi Kubo took his interest in environmental…
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Pegara, Inc.
With an over 400 user base in 40 countries, Pegara’s GPU cloud service GPU EATER fetched $104 million in a 2019 seed round. GPU EATER is gaining enthusiastic recognition as an innovative service solution to AI research; this is not without reason, as it is up to 80% less costly and achieves up to 50% faster performance than Amazon Web Service, which boasts the lion’s share of user accounts worldwide. Founder Shunsuke Ichihara entered a music college to pursue a…
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Sagri,Inc.
As a child, Shunsuke Tsuboi, the founder and CEO of SAgri, was fascinated by space. “I kept on talking about my passion for the space industry throughout my teenage years.” The feedback from adults was generally discouraging and he was chided off as being unrealistic. “I noticed my friends had changed their dreams to sound realistic,” he recalls. In 2016, as a sophomore in college, he started a space education company along with his peers to teach children about space…