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A cross-border advisory and investment partner helping Japan's succession-era businesses connect with capital and partners beyond Japan.

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Mission

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In Japan, hundreds of thousands of well-run small and mid-sized businesses face the same quiet problem: a founder ready to retire, and no one to hand the company to. Many of these businesses never look beyond their own prefecture for a buyer — not because no buyer exists, but because the introduction never happens.

Kaikou & Co. exists to make that introduction — connecting these businesses with the capital and partners outside Japan who can carry them forward.

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What we do

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Advisory

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We identify Japanese businesses facing succession without an heir, and introduce them to buyers and partners from outside Japan who can carry the business forward — handling structure, translation of intent, and the early groundwork that a purely domestic broker often can't.

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Principal investment

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Where a business fits our own thesis, we invest directly — building it into an operating business with real reach beyond Japan, rather than passing every opportunity along.

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Approach

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  • Long-term, not flipped

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    We think about who runs the business ten years on, not just who signs the closing documents.

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  • Fluent in both rooms

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    Deals stall when one side can't read the other's intent. We sit close enough to both sides to catch that early.

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  • Discreet by default

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    Succession is personal for the people selling. We treat it that way.

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Let's talk about a connection worth making.

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