Naonori Kimura explores the potential of Japanese businesses
Care service Poppins helps women to live fuller lives
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
When the care service Poppins Corp. was founded 36 years ago, gender bias was more explicit in Japan and women’s...
Japan evolving, not ‘stagnant’: UC professor Schaede
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
It has been a long time since critics started to say Japan had entered what became its post-bubble “lost decades.”...
Mitsubishi Estate nurtures Marunouchi with new values
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
Marunouchi is a well-known business district in the heart of Japan’s capital. But not many people know that the land...
Daiwa House, building future for 68 years and counting
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
Daiwa House Industry Co. was not Japan’s first home construction business. But the company, now the biggest house builder in...
Kikkoman’s secret sauce: A taste for trying new things
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
Long before Japanese cuisine took root, as it has now in the United States, soy sauce was a familiar item...
Sumitomo Foresty’s long history of environmental consciousness
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
Sumitomo Forestry Co. always looks back on what happened to the Besshi Copper Mine in Ehime Prefecture, which opened about...
Enhancing recycling – How FPCO turned disposable trays into a valuable resource
Hiroko Nakata Contributing writer
What drove FP Corp. to establish its own recycling system for foam food trays earlier than any of its competitors...
Seino delivers happiness for workers and customers
Hiroko Nakata
Contributing writer
What makes Seino Holdings Co. more competitive than many other companies owned and run by their founding families is its...
Sumitomo applies founders’ spirit to keep on changing
Hiroko Nakata
Contributing Writer
Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s top five general trading houses, seeks to take advantage of a wide range of expertise...
AGC takes on new areas from long-term perspective
Tomoko Kaichi
Contributing writer
AGC Inc. practices what I call ambidextrous development, in which the company aims to achieve growth by deepening existing businesses...
Empathy the essential key to sustainability: Sega Sammy chief
Tomoko Kaichi
Contributing writer
This past May, the Sega Sammy group worked out a “sustainability vision” for 2030 and announced important issues and action...
Ricoh seeks to lead changes in society with ‘three loves’
Tomoko Kaichi
Contributing writer
The Ricoh group, whose operations cover about 200 countries and territories, is working to graduate from an office automation equipment...
Naonori Kimura
Naonori Kimura's activities include numerous advisory services such as corporate strategies including breakthroughs, strategy shifts and re-growth initiatives. He has advised clients on business management streamlining, structural reforms, financial strategy, new business development, M&A strategies, and cost competitiveness. He is currently Chairman & President of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd. and outside director of Molten Corporation and Relia, Inc.. He is also Advisory board member of The Japan Times ESG consortium.
Prior to IGPI, he launched a venture business, worked with NCR Japan and later at Towers Perrin and Arthur D. Little Japan.
He graduated from Keio University, School of Economics, and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester and an MS in Finance from the Lancaster University. He also completed AMP in Harvard Business School.
