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Company Name: SMALL WORLDS Inc.

Description of Business: Planning, research & arrangement of leisure facilities
Management of leisure facilities
Model development
Manufacturing, sales, etc.

Address: Holland Hills Mori Tower RoP 707, 5-11-1, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0001

Date of Establishment: November 9, 2016

Capital: 1.85 billion yen (internal capital reserve 925 million yen)

Shareholders: LAC Inc.
DENTSU INC.
CP GROUP (Bangkok, Thailand)
Palm Springs Group (Beijing, China)
AXWELL PARTNERSHIP FUND2 Investment Limited Partnership
Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.
BS-TBS, INC.
Lawson Entertainment, Inc.
JTB Corp.
Global Product Planning Co., Ltd.
MILESEUM Inc. (Anyang, South Korea)
RYUBO INDUSTRY.,LTD
OCEA GROUP Co., Ltd.
YOSHIMOTO KOGYO HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

(As of the end of March 2020)

Management: Representative Director : Masahiro Kondo
Executive vice-president : Taichi Fukuda
Director : Zhimin Xu
Director : Takahiro Sakamoto
Director : Hirofumi Hamaguchi
Auditor : Yasushi Okada
Auditor : Yoshiro Kubota
Auditor : Masamichi Komuro
Auditor : Hiroyuki Kokado

Executive Director : Tatsuya Kaneko
Executive Director : Hidekazu Tanaka
Executive Director : Shuntaro Yamada
Executive Director : Shoji Kawamori
Executive Director : Yasushi Kubota
Executive Director : Mioko Yamamuro

Introduction of SMALL WORLDS’ representative

Masahiro Kondo [in charge of all business]

He graduated from School of International Politics, Economics, and Communication of AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY. After working for the Investment Planning Division of Financial Solutions Unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, he served as the director of Yahoo Japan Corporation’s mobile strategy office. In 2015 he joined WILx (World Innovation Lab), where he was responsible for the planning and operation of domestic programs “Shido Next Innovator 2015” and “Shido Next Innovator 2016” launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI).

Introduction of SMALL WORLDS’ director in charge of business

Taichi Fukuda [COO and EVP]

Successful entertainment executive, most recently worked as CMO/EVP at USJ (Universal Studios Japan). Before USJ, he worked at Warner Bros. Japan LLC as Managing Director/SVP for 8 years. He started his career at Dentsu Inc. and then moved to General Electric Japan as Director of Business Development. In GE, he was promoted to Managing Director of NBC Universal Japan. He holds BA from Waseda Univ. and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Introduction of SMALL WORLDS’ directors in charge of development

Takahiro Sakamoto [in charge of business planning]

He finished the Fine Arts Course of Nihon University College of Art. He worked for advertising companies and model manufacture companies and then, in 1993, he founded Craft Sakamoto Kikaku Co. Ltd.. Apart from taking charge of CRAFT SAKAMOTO KIKAKU CO.,LTD and Garden Railway Cafe, he also served as “gauge meister” on BS JAPAN’s TV program “tetsumo channel”.

Tatsuya Kaneko [in charge of development planning]

In 1977, his diorama was published in a professional model magazine and he debuted as an expert modeler. Since then, for the past 40 years, he has been presenting his works through model magazines, model manufacturers, business commercials, TV programs and project exhibitions. He has also laid an ideal foundation for the Japanese model industry.