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Teikoku Databank is a Japanese business-information company offering corporate credit research, company-data services, and management support. Its official website features TDB Company Search and services for gathering and analyzing company information and connecting business data. It also publishes bankruptcy notices and reports on economic and management issues, industry trends, and business knowledge. These resources help organizations review counterparties and research Japanese markets and industries.

INITIAL is a research service for exploring Japanese startups and their business activity. Its official homepage presents startup company profiles, an access ranking, and news about fundraising and business partnerships, helping readers see what companies do and how the startup landscape is moving. The page also links related NewsPicks coverage, bringing company information and current startup news together for market research.

Speeda is a Japanese business information platform for market research, competitor analysis, sales preparation, business development, and R&D. It brings together company and industry data, financial information, investor-relations materials, M&A information, analyst reports, and expert insight. Its economic-information-focused AI Agent assists with research, analysis, and preparing outputs for business tasks. The official site also describes Slack and Salesforce integrations, product materials, and trial requests.

Uzabase is a Japanese company that uses economic information to support business decisions. Its Speeda platform combines company and industry data with expert insight for research and analysis. NewsPicks is a social business-news service featuring original editorial articles and video, news from more than 100 domestic and international media outlets, and comments from users and specialists. The corporate site also presents company information, careers, and sustainability activities.

GVA TECH is a Japanese legal-technology company developing services across in-house legal work, law firms, legal procedures, and professional recruitment. Its OLGA platform automates legal requests, contract management, and knowledge use, while its consulting supports generative-AI strategy, governance, and workflow implementation. The company also lists AI support for law firms, online company-registration, registry, trademark and labor-document services, and recruiting for executive and professional roles.

LegalForce is an AI contract-review service for Japanese companies and legal teams. It identifies potential risks and missing clauses, supports reviews against general criteria or a company’s own checklist and revision policies, and helps users search prior contracts, internal templates, and lawyer-reviewed sample clauses. The service also supports downloading review results for editing in Word and organizing matter knowledge, negotiation history, and document versions.

Autify is an AI software-testing and quality-assurance platform for development teams. Its QA agents and AI products support work from test planning and design through case creation, execution, reporting, and analysis, for new-feature, acceptance, system, and regression testing. The Japanese site presents products such as Autify Nexus, no-code automation, and Playwright code output, along with customer case studies, support resources, and demo requests.

Sustech is a Japanese GX company that supports corporate decarbonization and renewable-energy operations. Its Carbonix platform helps manage and calculate supply-chain greenhouse-gas emissions and prepare reports. ELIC combines AI-based generation forecasts with centralized operation of distributed power sources and electricity sales. The company also lists PPA, FIP aggregation, battery operations, EV charging, solar-plant maintenance, and GX investment services.

Kotobank is a Japanese reference-search service for looking up words and terms across dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other databases supplied by publishers. Its homepage presents these reference sources as searchable together, so visitors can check explanations without searching each work separately. The official site also advertises an ad-free plan. It is useful for finding Japanese-language definitions and reference information in one place.

Kotoba Technologies develops real-time speech AI models and simultaneous-translation technology, with a Japan operating company. Its Koto voice foundation model supports speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech translation, with a focus on Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and other East Asian languages. The official site describes cloud, on-premises, and on-device deployment, a mobile interpreting app covering 21 input and 13 output languages, enterprise offerings, and a meeting bot.

SpiralAI is a Japanese company that develops communication services using generative AI, including large language models. Its emotion-focused LLM engine, Geppetto, is designed for expressive conversation and distinctive character personalities that can be applied to company-owned IP and services. The official site also presents RyzaChat:AI, an officially licensed Koei Tecmo game: a free-scenario AI chat RPG in which players talk with Ryza and shape the story. The app is available for iOS and Android.

Neural Group is a Japanese technology group applying AI and other advanced technologies to entertainment, events, games, education, media, and content. Its official technology portfolio describes edge AI that processes data on devices, Japanese local speech recognition, video-based traffic analysis, product recommendations, AI-assisted video workflows, vulnerability autofix, and fashion-trend analysis. The site explains how the group connects engineering and research with commercial applications and audience experiences.

ABLENET is a Japan-based hosting provider offering Windows and Linux VPS plans, shared rental servers, GPU-equipped bare-metal servers, and cloud storage. Its services address personal and business hosting needs, including self-hosting AI applications. The company also provides managed cybersecurity operations for organizations without dedicated IT staff; its official site describes each service and its intended use.

CGI.br is Brazil’s Internet Steering Committee. Its multistakeholder model brings government and different parts of society together to establish strategic guidelines for the use and development of the Internet. The site publishes governance principles, plenary agendas and resolutions, recommendations, and material on privacy, human rights, net neutrality, security, inclusion, and platform regulation. It also presents technical chambers, elections, forums, events, the Youth Programme, and the School of Internet Governance.

NIC.br coordinates initiatives to develop and improve the quality of the Internet in Brazil. It manages registration and maintenance of .br domains and the distribution of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and Autonomous System numbers in the country. Its work also spans Internet infrastructure, traffic exchange points, broadband-quality measurements, security, and Web technologies. Research on Internet access and use, along with artificial-intelligence observatory projects, provides data and guidance for network operators, researchers, public-policy teams, organizations, and Internet users.

CERT.br is Brazil’s national CSIRT of last resort, maintained by NIC.br, and provides incident-management services for networks using resources administered by NIC.br. It serves as a national contact point for security-incident reports and helps response teams and specialists coordinate investigations. The center shares situational awareness and statistics on attacks affecting the Brazilian Internet, including phishing pages, malicious DNS and exposed vulnerable services. It also publishes security guidance and awareness materials and runs courses and events for practitioners and Internet users.

DATUM STUDIO is a Japanese data analytics consultancy and software developer that helps businesses address management challenges with data and advanced technology. Its support spans framing AI use cases, designing algorithms and models, building and operating cloud environments, creating data platforms and dashboards, analyzing data, and executing data-driven marketing. The company also offers MLOps and practical training, plus products such as Churaito, an AI Japanese proofreading tool, and Location Trends, a location-data analytics service.

CodeZine is a Japanese information publication for software developers, operated by publisher Shoeisha. It features development articles, technology news, columns, interviews, event reports and book information, covering application development, infrastructure, AI, developer tools, and UX and design. Its practical material ranges from introductory technology topics to AI in development and engineering careers, helping people involved in software work learn and address challenges. Free membership is required to read the complete archive and receive member newsletters.

Money Forward Cloud is a Japanese suite of cloud products that helps sole proprietors, small and midsize businesses, companies preparing for an IPO, and listed firms manage back-office work. Its services cover accounting and tax filing, expenses, invoices and receivables or payables, payroll, attendance and HR administration, as well as electronic contracts and contract review. Organizations can start with individual products and combine them as their size and needs change; the suite also lists outsourced back-office support such as bookkeeping services.