Noboru Kayahara

IBM Japan Ltd. engages in the provision of products and services related to information systems. The company was founded on June 17, 1937 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Citigroup Global Markets Japan, Inc. (CGM-JP) is a wholly-owned broker/dealer subsidiary of Citigroup Japan Holdings GK, ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. Previously known as Nikko Citigroup Ltd., the firm was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between US-based Citigroup and Nikko Securities, based in Japan. Headquartered in Tokyo, CGM-JP provides brokerage services to governmental institutions, financial institutions, multinational corporations and institutional investors. Their sales and trading, distribution and research capabilities span a broad range of asset classes, currencies, sectors and products including equities, commodities, credit, futures, foreign exchange (FX), emerging markets, G10 rates, municipals, prime finance and securitized markets.

Anaeropharma Science, Inc. operates as a holding company that engages in the research and development of therapeutics to target hypoxic environment in solid cancers. It develops bifidobacterium technologies to create anti-cancer drugs. The firm's bifidobacterium therapeutics accumulates to the solid tumor when intravenously injected. The company was founded by Minoru Fujimori and Shunichiro Taniguchi on August 9, 2004 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Studio Ousia, Inc. develops search engine tools for mobile devices. Its products include semantic kernel and linkify. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Watanabe and Ikuya Yamada in 2007 and is headquartered in Fujisawa, Japan.