Environment, energy, food, health—humankind has many problems it must overcome, and Japan is facing them a step ahead of the world. It is with this sense of mission that Kashiwa-no-ha is building a stage for solutions, with open platforms available to all based on partnerships between the public, private and academic sectors. Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City is making the global future a reality.
As part of our new industry creation efforts, we are building an ecosystem that leverages the mutual knowledge, technology, and capital of start-ups, universities, hospitals, major pharmaceutical companies, and other stakeholders in the life science domain to advance research and development that transcends industry boundaries.
LINK-J is a platform for people and information to interact for those working in the life science field. This is a project of interaction and cooperation, where people congregate and connect, and of foster and support, where people grow and broaden, providing a variety of opportunities while aiming for the creation of a hitherto unseen new life science industry.
LINK-J
AI x Life Science Symposium
LINK-J Symposium
Possibilities of the Genome: Taking on the Challenge of New Industry Images
BRAVE Acceleration Program
Networking Night with Supporters
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Mitsui Fudosan provides various spaces that can be used as places for interactions, including the Nihonbashi Life Science Building, where there are numerous life science-related players, meeting rooms and offices. Moreover, the Company has developed shared wet labs and has been commissioned to operate part of the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Lab, advancing development of sites to create innovation.
Nihonbashi Life Science Building series
Mitsui Fudosan established a life science base in Nihonbashi; set up venture offices, service offices, conference rooms, lounges and shared wet labs; and gathered players from the life science domain, centering on venture companies.
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Commissioned to Operate Part of the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Lab
Mitsui Fudosan is utilizing the expertise it has acquired through the Life Science Innovation Promotion Project to support building university ecosystems and is also collaborating with universities, as well as with Nihonbashi.
A rental business that combines full-scale wet labs with offices needed to create innovation in the life science domain. By collaborating with LINK-J to provide both tangibles and intangibles, Mitsui Fudosan aims to create innovation by contributing to the resolution of R&D environment issues in Japan’s life science domain.
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Mitsui Fudosan makes limited partner investments in investment funds targeting companies in the life science field.
Providing support depending on the stage of progress and brokering enables more sophisticated technological seeds to materialize and further accelerates promoting new industry creation.
We work to strengthen the Mitsui Fudosan Group’s existing businesses and develop new businesses through activities centered on 31VENTURES, which aims to co-create with start-up companies through the three solutions of corporate venture capital (CVC), workspaces, and community.
31VENTURES can assist in procuring CVC funding to facilitate the rapid growth of venture businesses. It also raises funding through direct investment and external venture capital.
It is developing startup workspace THE E.A.S.T. which provides work spaces for start-up companies on the east side of Tokyo with a focus on Nihonbashi.
It is building communities that bring together diverse perspectives and attributes to support the creation of opportunities for encountering new knowledge and to develop synergies.
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To the official website for startup workspace THE E.A.S.T. (operated by 31VENTURES)
Through joint research, one of its activities aimed at promoting industry-academia collaboration, Mitsui Fudosan adds cutting-edge knowledge and technology from academia to its cumulative experience and expertise in neighborhood creation, working toward the social implementation of the results generated by that collaboration and the realization of innovation in the real estate industry.
Following are some examples of the joint research currently underway with academia.
In 2020, Mitsui Fudosan launched the Mitsui Fudosan UTokyo Laboratory, a center for industry-academia co-creation with the University of Tokyo, and to date has advanced a number of joint research projects. In one example of that research, we are conducting empirical studies on in-building logistics using autonomous drone flight in non-GNSS environments," backed by proprietary mathematical models, working together with experts from the departments of Mathematical Modeling Systems and Aeronautical Engineering. A variety of experiments will be conducted in an effort to develop an optimal model for in-building logistics, using MFLP・LOGIFRONT Tokyo-Ishibashi as a research field.
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Wearable devices and other robotic devices have become an increasingly familiar presence in recent years, and it is believed that by 2050, a society will emerge in which robots can be used by anyone, anytime and anywhere. In anticipation of this next-generation society in which humans and robots interact and co-exist, Mitsui Fudosan, working with Tohoku University, has been conducting research into how humans and robots might co-exist in the office. By taking full advantage of its knowledge and technologies related to state-of-the-art AI robotics and different types of sensor, Mitsui Fudosan will work to build robotic systems equipped with interactive functions that contribute to people's physical and mental health. In doing so, we aim to maintain the health of office workers and thereby realize a highly productive office environment.
As efforts to reevaluate global supply chains advance in response to geopolitical risks, Japan is seeing an acceleration of strategic investment in the semiconductor industry and peripheral manufacturing industries. Against this backdrop, Mitsui Fudosan is conducting research with Kyushu University on the future of advanced industrial clusters, targeting northern Kyushu and based on the new Inclusive Wealth Index (an index that comprehensively considers human capital, produced capital and natural capital) proposed by the United Nations as an alternative to GDP.
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of women launching their own businesses, in particular many cases of lifestyle businesses being created to address problems around daily life. Such business is expected to expand domestic demand and have a significant impact on the economy and society. Against this background, Mitsui Fudosan is advancing research on female entrepreneurship with Ochanomizu University. By reevaluating female entrepreneurship from the perspective of gender differences, this research aims to break through stereotypes about entrepreneurship, examining ways to make it easier for women to create lifestyle businesses and reflecting those findings in residential, commercial and office buildings and other facilities.
We provide an opportunity for our employees with business ideas that allows them to start their own business utilizing the Company's resources and expertise to the maximum possible extent. Currently, there are over 10 ongoing projects with various business themes and concepts.
Gokushun
This business has bases in New Zealand and Japan, where the seasons are opposite, and produces finest, Japanese quality grapes for raw consumption and sale throughout the world at any time of the year. Moving away from notions of white collar or blue collar, we advocate a new way of life under the idea of a "green collar," and work to solve social issues in the farming sector.
(Operating company: GREENCOLLAR, Inc.)
HUBHUB
This is a business to make new, effective use of idle real estate by utilizing mobile units. While eliminating the hollowing out of cities it changes the land into hubs for "richer, more enjoyable" living to contribute to customers' well-being.
(Operating company: ShareTomorrow Co.,Ltd.)
＆Resilience
&Resilience, the BCP countermeasure support service, supports not only the preparation of BCP documents, but also efforts to develop operational ability in the event of a disaster through on-demand, simulation-type disaster training.
(Operating company: Andresilience Co., Ltd.)
SUPERYARD
Aiming to create a society where many people with a mental disability can play an active role, grow and develop a career at a company. Provides support in all phases of employment for people with a disability, starting with the introduction of human resources matched with companies, offering environments where people with a disability can work comfortably and permanently selecting the work for people with a disability to be responsible for among the departments where they are assigned.
(Operating company: SUPERYARD CO., LTD.)
SOCO HAUS
This new rental residence fulfills a "light and abundant lifestyle" to free residents from cramped urban living by focusing on residents' preferences and proposing lifestyles that match their lifestyles and values.
(Project operator: Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd.)
mitaseru
A carefully selected gourmet ordering platform that handles everything from procurement of ingredients, securing cooks and producing products on behalf of customers, as well as delivering dishes from famous restaurants. Contributes to the achievement of an easy and abundant dietary life for customers, as well as to solving issues in the food and beverage industry.
(Operating company: mitaseru JAPAN Co., Ltd.)
ShareTomorrow Co.,Ltd.
GREENCOLLAR.Inc
Andresilience Co., Ltd.
SUPERYARD CO., LTD.
LIVING
How our businesses are operated with people's lifestyles in mind, with a focus on "live," "work," and "enjoy."
CITY
We create places where people can gather to enliven the local area and generate something new. Our goal is to realize future-focused neighborhoods that get better with age.
ORGANIZATION
The departments and divisions responsible for providing solutions and services in a wide range of business areas, including office buildings, commercial facilities, hotels and resorts, logistics, and housing.
