{"id":656,"date":"2021-12-23T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/?page_id=656"},"modified":"2022-01-12T02:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:41:25","slug":"vol97-message","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/en\/vol97\/vol97-message\/","title":{"rendered":"vol97 MESSAGE - Our New Initiative, Listed Company and NAKAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\nOur New Initiative, Listed Company and NAKAMA\r\n<\/h1>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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\r\nFirst, let me wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.
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\r\nThe whole of last year was overshadowed by COVID. It was a year in which we faced many difficulties. But wasn\u2019t it also a year of many new discoveries? Stuck in an unfamiliar environment with limitations on our freedom to live as we liked, we enjoyed the challenge of what to do, a challenge to our insight into how to work to make the best of the situation.
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\r\nThat is why, in whatever environment we find ourselves, we can keep our eyes firmly on the peak, our goal, and advance step by step to achieve it. But we cannot reach the peak alone.
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\r\nUNIVA NAKAMA advance together. We are surrounded by NAKAMA with many different values. Our diversity is our group\u2019s greatest strength. Recognizing and accepting each other\u2019s values, we work together to reach our goal. Innovation is born when our values clash, and we find new ways to unite.
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\r\nUnite the Values.
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\r\nUNIVA is structured to produce innovation.
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\r\nOur aim is for UNIVA to become a community of NAKAMA who innovate and make a reality of capitalism based on co-creation.
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\r\nBy \u201cNAKAMA\u201d we mean everyone who has a stake in UNIVA, our employees, allies and business partners, together with each and every Naturally Plus member. We are all UNIVA NAKAMA.
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\r\nTurning, however, to myself. Last June I became President and CEO of Oak Capital Co., Ltd., a company listed in the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Last December, I became Chair and CEO of CSS Holdings Ltd., a company listed in the upper section of the JASDAQ Exchange. Both are holding companies with operating companies under their umbrellas.
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\r\nWhile UNIVA has, both directly and indirectly, equity in both companies. We are not, however, simply shareholders. We are creating new NAKAMA.
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\r\nOur new NAKAMA include not only each group and its constituent companies but also their investors. Their listing on stock exchanges means they will have many shareholders and, thus, for us new opportunities to grow our NAKAMA.
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\r\nUNIVA\u2019s becoming NAKAMA with listed companies is the start of a new project. After I became CEO of Oak Capital last year, the company changed its corporate slogan to \u201cConnecting Companies Co-Creating Value\u2014Creating Together\u201d and took its first steps to working with UNIVA. Thus, for example, the process is underway for UNIVA Paycast and UNIVA Gyron to become wholly owned subsidiaries of Oak Capital this coming spring. Since I am a representative director of both firms, the work is being done by an external committee of lawyers and accountants. The effect of this move will be making it possible for UNIVA Paycast and UNIVA Gyron to accelerate their growth by raising new capital via the stock exchange.
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\r\nThe UNIVA NP Holdings Limited IPO project, first considered in 2016 with serious work starting in 2018, should be finished this year. The formal application for listing is scheduled for this coming fall. Our shareholder, stakeholder NAKAMA will increase in Taiwan as well as Japan.
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\r\nThe UNIVA states that without challenging, only maintaining, the current state of affairs is the same as retreating. We must always be seeking new challenges. Only by moving forward is innovation possible.
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\r\nThe renewal of UNI-SIGHT, with the aim of building community by strengthening communication with our employees, is one of our new challenges.
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\r\nThis is 2022, the Year of the Tiger.
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\r\nWe cannot capture the tiger\u2019s cub without entering the tiger\u2019s lair.
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\r\nRisk always accompanies challenge, but \u201cventure\u201d and \u201cclueless\u201d are different. To confront a challenge that is likely to be risky, a venture requires a solid plan. A fully developed system must be in place to achieve its goals. \u201cClueless\u201d is acting blindly, with insufficient preparation, charging recklessly ahead.
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\r\nWhatever the business or organization, the biggest failure is not being unable to reach the goal, but missing the opportunity to embrace a new challenge.
\r\n\u201cWhat can we do to succeed?\u201d That question has no answer.
\r\n\u201cWhat do we do to help others?\u201d Our answer to that question is the key to success.
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\r\nThis year, too, let\u2019s pull together to meet the challenge of being of value to others.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nUNIVA CAPITAL Group
\r\nChairman and Group CEO
\r\nShuji Inaba\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nPlease submit your greatest challenges and how you met them to the UNIVA AWARDS. This is your opportunity to communicate to our Group Board of Directors, including myself, the challenges you tackled, to contribute knowing about those challenges to our collective knowledge, and share your experience with all Group employees.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/article>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESSAGE Our New Initiative, Listed Company and NAKAMA First, let me wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Y […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-discussion.php","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/?page_id=527","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656\/revisions\/978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/univacap.com\/uni-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}