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The Japanese Standards Association Group’s official Webdesk is a portal for finding standards, books, products, seminars, and briefings related to standardization and quality management. Its catalog includes JIS, ISO, IEC, and overseas standards, while the site also provides information about the QC Certification Examination, standardization and quality-management conferences, training, standards development, and organizational or personnel certification support. Several group entities operate different services, so the responsible provider varies by program. Standards and books may be sold, and exams, training, or certification can carry fees; check the individual service page for current prices and conditions before applying.

TRANBI is a Japanese online marketplace that connects people and companies seeking to buy or sell a business, including for business succession. Sellers can publish transfer opportunities, while buyers search listings and request negotiations. The site also presents named deals, listings from public business-succession support centers, buyer needs, matching assistance, professional-adviser options, completed-deal examples, articles, and M&A learning materials. Seller use is listed as free; buyers choose monthly plans based on deal size, with no success fee charged on a completed transaction. Separate learning plans and paid negotiation support are available, so users should check plan features, term length, and renewal conditions before subscribing.

Strike Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based M&A advisory and intermediary for company acquisitions, business sales, and succession. Its services cover growth-oriented and succession-focused deals, cross-border M&A, management support, company valuation, buyer-candidate proposals, and negotiation assistance. The site also lists M&A opportunities and published closing cases, client interviews, seminars, news, and a glossary. Consultations, valuations, and candidate proposals are presented as free through the basic-agreement stage; seller and buyer engagements have later milestone and completion fees, so each party should review its own fee terms before signing.

M&A Research Institute Inc. is a Japanese intermediary for company and business sales, acquisitions, and business succession. Its website describes free consultations for sellers and buyers, company valuation, searching for and matching potential counterparties, and support through negotiations and closing. It also explains the firm's use of AI-assisted matching and provides publicly viewable deal listings, completed-deal stories, industry M&A information, articles, seminars, and FAQs. The fee page says sellers pay no retainer, interim, or monthly fee and are charged a success fee when a transaction closes; buyers are also offered a free initial fee. Other charges and contract terms may differ by side and case, so prospective clients should consult the current official fee schedule before engaging the firm.

Nihon M&A Center is a Japanese M&A intermediary serving companies considering a business or company sale, acquisition, succession, or growth strategy. Its website describes consultation for both sellers and buyers, matching with potential counterparties, company valuation, transaction negotiations and closing support, and post-deal integration assistance (PMI). Visitors can also explore deal information, industry-specific M&A trends, case studies, news, seminars, and FAQs. The published fee guide says initial consultation is free until a formal brokerage agreement is signed; after engagement, an upfront fee applies and a success fee is payable when a transaction closes. The site is a corporate advisory service, not a public exchange for trading company shares, and prospective clients should review the firm's current terms.

TDnet’s Company Announcements Disclosure Service is the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s public search page for timely company disclosures. Users can choose a date range and search announcements by securities code, company name, or headline keywords. The service’s search guide says that both abbreviated and full company names are searched, and that full-width and half-width characters as well as English letter case are treated alike. Results are capped at 200 entries, so the guide recommends narrowing broad searches, for example by date. The exchange states that it seeks to ensure the information is accurate but disclaims responsibility for disadvantages or problems arising from use of the site. This is a way to locate issuer announcements, not an investment recommendation service.

EDINET is the Financial Services Agency of Japan’s public website for viewing corporate disclosure filings. Users can search by filer, issuer, fund, or securities code and browse documents such as annual, semiannual, and quarterly securities reports, large-shareholding reports, and extraordinary reports. The portal offers simple and detailed filing searches, full-text search, public-notice listings, and downloads of EDINET taxonomies and code lists. Depending on the filing, documents can be viewed or obtained in PDF, XBRL, or CSV form. Access to the separate EDINET API requires registration and an API key. The FSA explicitly cautions that it does not certify the truth, accuracy, or completeness of disclosed information or guarantee the value of securities, so filings should be read with that limitation in mind.

Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co. supports the capital base and sustainable development of small and medium-sized companies in Japan. Its website explains the investment-development program, through which the company can invest in businesses and serve as a long-term, stable shareholder. The site says it respects each company’s management independence and does not interfere with operations or dispatch officers. Businesses can learn about support for capital policy, ownership stability, dispersed shares, succession planning, and leadership development, and read examples from participating companies. The portal also lists successor-learning opportunities, seminars, corporate training, management articles, news, and investment results. It is a source of information about SBIC’s SME investment and business-support activities, rather than a general stock-trading service.

The official website of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry organizes government policy information across the economy, external economic relations, manufacturing, information, distribution and services, small businesses and regional economies, energy and the environment, and public safety. Visitors can find ministry announcements, press releases, ministerial briefings, budget and tax information, policy documents, and METI Journal articles. Its policy pages also explain measures relating to industrial competitiveness, start-ups, investment, finance, tax incentives, regulatory reform, and research and development, with programs grouped by business size or type of support. This is a public information portal for understanding the ministry’s policies, not a commercial marketplace.

Japan’s Small and Medium Enterprise Agency is an administrative agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and its website publishes policy and support information for small and medium-sized businesses and small-scale operators. The site organizes guidance on management improvement, start-ups and new ventures, business succession, innovation, overseas expansion, productivity, finance, accounting, fair transactions, and disaster response. Its homepage brings together important notices, current announcements, and policy areas. It also links to separate resources such as Mirasapo Plus for subsidy information, jGrants for online applications, and J-Net21 for business support guidance. This is an official policy-information portal, with linked sites providing their own services.

Caloo is a Japan-focused search and review site for hospitals, clinics, and dental practices. Visitors can look for facilities by region, railway line or station, medical department, specialist credentials, outpatient specialty, disease, or symptom. Listings provide basic facility information and, for eligible hospitals, treatment-performance data; the site also offers user reviews, disease and symptom indexes, patient experience reports, feature articles, and a dental Q&A section. Caloo’s own guide says reviews are checked by staff and systems before publication. Most information can be viewed without an account, while free registration provides access to additional functions. The service helps people explore medical-facility information; it is not itself a healthcare provider.

Vero is a Brazilian provider of internet services for homes and businesses. Its portal lets visitors select a city to check local offers and availability, with separate sections for residential and business customers. The site provides coverage lookup and an internet speed test. Customer links lead to the Minha Vero app, bills, self-service, technical support, FAQs, stores, and contact options. Some plans combine internet with mobile service or digital and streaming options, and offers are selected by location. The customer area also continues to use links on verointernet.com.br.

Unifique is a Brazilian telecommunications provider. Its official website presents residential fiber internet, mobile phone plans, and bundles that combine fixed and mobile connectivity. The homepage states that its mobile plans have nationwide coverage and links to a mobile-network map with 5G information; fiber availability can be checked by location. Business menus list fiber internet, mobile plans, bundles, and dedicated internet, while a Telco section serves operators and MVNOs. Customer links include bills, the Minha Unifique app, an online account area, FAQs, stores, and support channels.

Desktop Internet is a Brazilian telecommunications provider whose main consumer offering is residential fiber broadband. Its official website presents internet plans and bundles that can combine fixed connectivity with mobile service, television, and content apps. Visitors can select a city to check local offers and availability rather than assume nationwide coverage. The site also links to online sign-up, customer self-service, bill copies, support and FAQs, plus a separate business portal and information about places served.

Alibaba Cloud is a cloud computing and AI platform for developers and enterprises, offering IaaS, MaaS, and PaaS services. Its official site presents products for computing, storage, networking, security, databases, analytics, and containers. Model Studio supports generative-AI application development with foundation models, while Platform for AI (PAI) provides machine-learning tools spanning data labeling, model building, training, optimization, and deployment. The China site also features Yunxiao, an enterprise DevOps suite for project collaboration, code hosting and review, CI/CD, application delivery, artifact management, testing, and software-development performance analytics.

The official Japanese website of MUFG Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank) provides information for both personal and corporate customers. It links to personal internet-banking login through the bank app or a browser, and offers ATM and branch search, foreign-exchange rates, fee and interest-rate tables, and frequently asked questions. Visitors can also find banking procedures, corporate information, sustainability, careers, news releases, and service notices. The homepage identifies the bank and displays financial institution code 0005.

Mizuho Bank’s official Japanese website helps individual customers find account-opening information and everyday banking services. It links to Mizuho Direct online banking and explains the bank app’s balance-checking and transfer functions. The site also organizes information about deposits, NISA and investment trusts, credit cards, home and card loans, branches and ATMs, lost-card or address-change procedures, interest rates, fees and foreign exchange, with routes to FAQs, chat support, online consultations and service announcements.

OKWAVE is a Japanese Q&A and community service where people can ask about questions or concerns and receive answers informed by other users’ knowledge and experience. Its themed communities support ongoing discussion around shared interests, hobbies, local topics, or areas of expertise through posts and comments. According to the operator, users who complete phone-number verification can also create and manage public communities around topics they choose. The service brings together people looking for help and people willing to share what they know.

ASICS Japan’s official online store lets customers browse and buy running shoes, sneakers, sports footwear, and apparel organized around running, basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, training, baseball, track and field, and work. The storefront provides product search, category browsing, featured collections, item pages, account access, and a shopping cart, with links to OneASICS membership, the official ASICS app, and ASICS Runkeeper. The same domain also hosts official localized storefronts for the Philippines and Thailand, so shoppers can find regional ASICS products through one brand domain.