Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to 2025.

Emar has now entered its 26th year since its founding, and it’s all thanks to our employees and stakeholders. I sincerely appreciate your support and contributions. Thank you very much. So, what kind of year will 2025 be? At the Emar Group, we are adopting the theme of "Collaboration" this year. According to the Kojien dictionary, "Collaboration" means "working together," but this term is often used in the context of "working together toward a specific purpose or goal." In today's fast-paced world, challenges arise one after another in parallel with the rapid passage of time. Trying to address these changes and meet the evolving needs of the times is an uphill battle for any individual alone.
In business, most small and medium-sized enterprises find themselves overshadowed by large corporations, gradually losing their resources and strength without even realizing it. Now is the time to leverage each other's strengths and consider sustainable management through collaboration.
We are also living in a transitional period. If you think not only about the current economic situation but also expand your perspective to the 30 years since the bubble economy burst, don’t you sense significant changes are underway?
Dr. Kunihiko Hara, a special professor at Nagoya University, mentioned in “Considering the Study of Premonition” (2022):
"…Today, we see increasing fluidity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity across many domains, with unexpected events occurring frequently. We are in an era covered by a vague sense of anxiety about an unpredictable future. [...] It is becoming increasingly important to capture faint signs of change that exist beyond our awareness and to provide clear long-term guidance for action."
The discomfort you’re feeling now?couldn’t it be a sign of what’s to come?
When the world undergoes significant transformations, it becomes vital to collaborate with trustworthy partners to devise strategies for survival. Emar is preparing itself for precisely such an era of change.

President and CEOHideki Hayasaka