 And you are very fortunate to be able to hear from the Japanese start-up entrepreneurs and those people who are really making change happen in Japan and in the globe. So in the beginning, I'd like to just talk briefly about what's happening in Asia, broader Asia, but in particular Japan. So if you take a look at the capitalism in any society, there is a demand side and a supply side. So I'd like to talk first about supply side a little bit, and I mean the supply side of capital, and then the demand side, which is the main topic of discussion for this morning session. So on the supply side of capital, this is something that you already know. So I'm going to skip through this very quickly. But as you know, the size of impact investing is growing globally, and everywhere. And if you take a look at the chart here, you see the South Asia, East Asia and South East Asia. This is an area where the impact investing is actually happening. So that's also a very growing regions and sub-regions. Of course, there's a strong demand in those societies. So I think many of you are really interested in this area and also maybe practicing impact investing already. Unfortunately yet, the movers and shakers of impact, if you take a look at the headquarters locations, Asia is pretty small still yet. And on the right-hand side, you take a look at the GST National Advisory Board, Global String Group for Impact Investing. You see Japan, Korea, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and if you include the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, and Turkey is a newcomer in the NAB, National Advisory Board. So it's a growing region in terms of the ownership of impact investing these days too. If you then take a look at Japan, Japan also sees growth and tremendous growth of impact investing these days, even though it's still very small compared to what's happening globally. It is equivalent of 3.4% of the global impact investing market, so it's small compared to the size of the economy of Japan. But if you can look at the graph, it's really growing very, very rapidly and it's very accelerating. So this is what's happening on the supply side of the capital and if you have questions, of course, you can grab me and I can talk more about what's happening in Japan. And these are the regions and sectors, sorry about the small letters, but if you take a look at the investing sector, health, healthcare, climate change mitigation, support for small and medium-sized businesses, women's empowerment, quality education and parenting, climate challenge and adaptation, infrastructure, urban development. These are the sectors that Japanese investors are looking, are interested in. As you can see, you might not find so many differences between what's the interest in Japan and abroad, but of course Japan is an ageing society and that really affects the health and healthcare sector, which is really the one people are really paying attention to. So those are the things that are happening on the supply side of the capital. Now let's take a look at the demand side and here we are focusing on startups. So this is a graph provided by Meti in the Japanese government, but the startup is really growing and the fundraising is a testimony to that. In the past 10 years you see the tenfold growth in the startup capital. And as you might have heard, the current administration, KISA administration, is speaking about the new form of capitalism, within which the government has this startup promotion five-year plan. So in this plan, in Japan, public and private sectors together is trying to really increase the startup funding by tenfold by 2027, which means we are aiming at 100,000 startups by the year 2027. So this is something that an area that the Japanese government is really trying to work on with its focus and energy. And within which the Japanese startups, there are more and more attention, growing attention to what we call the impact startups. And the reason for this, which is something that maybe I don't have to explain too much, is really for sustainable society, again in Japan and abroad. And there are three key areas of attention that the Japanese government is focusing on. One is the issue of scale. How are we going to be able to use the capitalism system to make sure that the things that happen in one corner of the society can be scaled to a greater impact, of course. And then, if you take a look at the right-hand side, as it says, many young aspiring entrepreneurs. So we are very much focusing on the youth, not so much the physical age, but more like a mental attitude of making things happen, making things change, and there's a lot of energy around that. And the third one, increased entrepreneurship in rural areas. This is also something that might be unique to Japan because of the population decline and community... We need to work on the community revitalization. And we are very much focusing on economic revitalization of various communities. So those are the three different sectors or areas that we are very much interested in for sustainable society, again in Japan and abroad. So with that, the government started this J Startup Impact Program in 2023 this year. And this is a program for training impact startup companies. And then these are the companies that have been chosen to be the impact startups for this year. And unfortunately, I was on the selection committee of this process and was very thrilled, excited, and then encouraged very much by the energy, talent, enthusiasm, and the practical wisdom. Not just the theory, but how to put things into practice by these companies. And again, you're very fortunate here today this morning to be able to get the sample of their work because of the five people that will be speaking right after this. And as Azushi mentioned, this program, J Startup X, dispatches young entrepreneurs and capitalists to talk startup ecosystem worldwide. So here we have 20 people attending from this program, but there are others who have been dispatched to other parts of the world as well to really learn, to really exchange views and opinions, and then to talk about the future, to really collaborate possibly for the future of the globe and for sustainable society. So I hope that was a teeing up of the very exciting speakers, five speakers that will be speaking right after this. So thanks for listening. Thank you, Mr. Imata. So let's move on to the next session. I'm happy to introduce five entrepreneurs as a representative of each section. So the first speaker is Kunishiro Shimoji from EF Polymer. Morning, guys. My name is Kunishimoji. I'm the CEO of EF Polymer, Eco-friendly Polymer. We empower farmers to fight against drought to promote sustainable agriculture. Please remember three things out of this conversation. EF Polymer produces 100% natural and biodegradable super-absorbent polymer, which is optimized for sustainable agriculture. We help farmers decrease water and their fertilizer uses and increase yield by 15%. And we are your partner for your company's sustainable transformation in agriculture and beyond. As you know, 45% of the world population is facing drought today. And 70% of the water available for human use is actually used for agriculture. When you combine those two things, what happens is a lot of water stress for farmers. Drought is causing 30 to 40% yield decrease. And as you know, most of them are individual or family-owned small-scale farmers. They are actually hit severely by this situation. To solve this situation, we are fortunate that we were able to develop this patented solution. 100% natural and biodegradable water and fertilizer retainer. And one of the unique things about our product is that it is actually made out of the bio-waste, such as orange peels and baleen peels. And they often cause CO2 emission during their disposal process. And we upcycle 10 ton of orange peels to produce one ton of our product. And one gram can absorb up to 50 gram of water. And then it absorbs and releases water in soil for six months. And then it's completely gone, biodegrades in a year. With our product, we help farmers not only environmentally sustainable, but economically sustainable solution. We help farmers to reduce water by 40% and 20% of fertilizer. And they help them increase EO by 15%. We envision that we want to produce this circular economy, upcycling locally collected orange peels and baleen peels and beyond. And then produce our polymer and they help farmers and then create our polymer again with the residue from the farmers. We are more than agriculture as well. We, with our patented solution and the hydro gel we create with this patented polymer, we can help transform many industries to be more sustainable. We have sales and licensing and then we're working with more than 12,000 farmers in five different nations. We have a physical presence in Japan and India and then one of our focuses are US, France and Thailand. Thank you so much. And if you are interested in our technology and the potential collaboration, please let me know. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shimoji. And the second entrepreneur is Kota Takaoka from ICANN. Good morning, everyone. I'm Kota, CEO of ICANN Incubation. I love to talk about the technology to protect children from China views. So let's begin. First of all, China views a common social issue in the world. To save children, investigation itself is so important, but it is so difficult. Why? I'm going to show you the example. Parents hit their children physically, but they say that. Oh, my kids might fall down from the slope in the park. You know what I mean? And 80% of China views death case is happened in zero to one years old babies. Therefore, they cannot talk anything developmentally yet. Therefore, quality of digital making by professionals is really, really important. So how can we ameliorate it? Here's the solution. We offer ICANN service, including two different types of applications and customer success. ICANN application includes ICT and AI. Then, data-driven onsite support such as evidence-based training, effective research, and evidence-based policy-making support. Here are the features. Supporting or preparation efficiency. If social work can find rules and injuries on children's body, they can input the data along the application guide, which part of the body is injured. What type of injuries is it? When they input the data simultaneously stored on the database, the information is shared with other agencies as well. So users say that it best gets seamlessly shared information promptly. They are also supporting the improvement with digital quality. In addition to the previous data, social work-related and professional inputs the risk-effective data about children, parents, and others based on the past response record AI conducted simulations. Then, data-driven information for digital making is presented. The users say that OCRS cases are not overlooked and appropriate responses can be conducted. The feature three, promotes evidence-informed pocket cycle. This is the most important thing to deploy a tech-based approach. First of all, issue identification should be conducted. Then we start education and training, technology deployment, and measurement impact. And update a tech practice in both sides. Here's the last slide. Vision. Making a change to create a safer world for all children. So let's create this vision together. I really love to talk with administrative persons, investors, and a philanthropist to save children. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Takoka. And the third speaker is Carlos Oba from Dots 4. Hello, good morning. My name is Carlos Oba, the CEO and co-founder of Dots 4 Inc. So we are revolutionizing the lives of the African rural village people by the power of the telecom technologies. As you may know, African village, there is no infrastructure because of the low income companies are not interested in because no profitability in these areas. For us, no water, no electricity, but no internet connection, telecommunication. And that leads them to opportunity, to information, and for opportunities. So we change their situation by putting this size of their network box in each village and build a retrochip Wi-Fi infrastructure selling the smartphone and provide them digital services. Now local version of Netflix is available in each African villages. And we provide such service as a B2C subscription with the install payment of the smartphone. We receive weekly payment directly from the individual village people with mobile money technology available in many African countries. And also we gather the data of individual village people through our system with our service and with our smartphone. Gather this information put in the algorithm and calculate the credit score and provide the financial services with ultra-high repayment ratio. And also, as I mentioned, the telecom company cannot enter the rural area because of the profitability problem, but we can. We are pre-profitable in this low income area whereas the telecom company cannot. We could recoup our initial investment within 10 months. And we become a big company through our system by providing them not only the digital services not only the video subscription, but also we can connect them to the cities and the more bigger economy like US, Japan, developed countries and provide them the job opportunity to arm more income from bigger economies. And we have operated in two years and operated in Benin and Senegal more than 100 villages in Africa and both countries we have monetizing and some of the villages we succeeded to realize our unique economics. And also many of them are interested in to work with us and half of them who experienced our service as a free trial period turned into the paid users. And some of them who especially watching the videos, training videos can increase their income by 50 to 80% and also with our algorithm, 10% or more high repayment ratio. So we are looking for partners who are also interested in to African market also investors who want to jump into this project. So we thought for changing the lives of the people by the power of the technology. Thank you very much. And the next speaker is Takehira Asakura from TBM. Hi, good morning everyone. I'm Takehira Asakura from TBM Japan. I am so proud that I am standing here to make presentation about TBM. So TBM is one of the Japanese Unicorn startups and we intend to address several environmental issues such as water resources, water security or global warming and by distributing Limex, a limestone-based new sustainable material. So TBM succeeded in developing limestone-based new material and which can be used as plastic or paper alternative items. Limex contains 50% plus of limestone powder and resin for the remaining portion. And so far we have been trading with over 10,000 companies and we developed diverse applications listed here. For example, with Limex we can provide shopping bags or toys or cosmetic containers or food containers as well. So this time I brought some Limex products from Japan and I will display some of them at our booth. So please drop in at our booth after this session if you are interested. So let me share some environmental impact numbers here. So firstly, as paper alternative, Limex sheet can save as much as 97% of water usage and Limex sheet does not require any forest resources. So Limex sheet has environmental impact. And then as plastic alternative items, Limex can save plastic usage. As a result, we can reduce GHG emissions on the life cycle assessment base. So as you consume Limex products, you can realize positive environmental impact. And even with one-time usage, Limex has environmental impact, but Limex can show its full potential by recycling. And from this spring, we started a new business to offer upcycling of post-consumer Limex waste and plastic waste. And Limex is now gaining global recognition through global conferences listed here. Of course I will add socap for this page next time. So for closing my presentation, please reach out to me if you have interest in using Limex for your product. And we are now doing fundraising. So please let me know if you have interest in investing in TVM. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And the last speaker is Takayuki Ishii from Ashirase. Hi, good morning, everyone. I'm Takayuki Ishii from the Ashirase Inc. Let me introduce you to the Ashirase. What is the service for them? First, how have you come here today? By bus, by taxi, by airplane? But all of you were walking. However, in all of the world, it is a little bit difficult to people. It's more than $252 million. They are visually impaired. What is the problem for them? The people visually impaired are desperately needed to concentrate on staying safe and not taking the long route. And they want to go somewhere slowly. But it's really difficult. You can imagine it very easily. When you're watching TV in your house, you cannot hear what your family said. It's very common thing. So how we can solve this problem? We, Ashirase, is the service for IoT. It's a concept of native app and device. This is very simple. When users want to go somewhere, they put on shoes with Ashirase and enter the destination of the app. After that, walk along the vibration. So as a result, they thought their time reduction is very powerful for them. Because the preparing time is shorter. It is very near to the people's sightseeing. And also, the total walking time is really short. And we have more than 100 beta users. They give us a good build-back. Around 80% of users report positive changes in their life. And also, they give us their feedback as shown in this test. So more than 40% users answered. It is very disappointed if they cannot use Ashirase tomorrow. But is there any other service like us? My answer is no today. And now we are preparing to have a lot of business for next year. The business model is preparing now, but we want to keep it simple. We, Ashirase, create a world where every step taken by the people visually impaired is joyful and a journey. Thank you very much.