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Highly Differentiated Ideas and Insights

The mission of MIJ is to become your field guide to Business and Investing in Japan. My goal is to make businesses in Japan more accessible to everyone by breaking down cultural barriers and provide differentiated ideas and insights.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>It’s been no secret that Japan has not been the most technologically forward society in the world…</li><li>As a consumer, it was only a few years ago you’d be carrying hard cash to pay for most things as many shops wouldn’t let you pay with your card.</li><li>If you’re an employee, the chances are that your office is still using a fax in one capacity or another. </li></ul>

It’s been no secret that Japan has not been the most technologically forward society in the world…As a consumer, it was only a few years ago you’d be carrying hard cash to pay for most things as many shops wouldn’t let you pay with your card.If you’re an employee, the chances are that your office is still using a fax in one capacity or another. 

Equity Bottom-Up

Logizard Co., Ltd. provides information technology services for logistics sectors. The Company offers barcode, warehousing, and location management technology solutions. Logizard serves customers in Japan.

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<li>Welcome to Part 2 of my logistics series. I’ll briefly talk about a nanocap that could benefit from the shake-up in the logistics industry.</li>
<li>This particularly interested me because it covers 2 themes I like which are: the 2024 Problem but also the 2025 Digital Cliff (in other words, DX).</li>
<li>The company is Logizard $4391.JP, which is not a Pokemon (You’re thinking about Charizard) but probably the only listed pure-play Warehouse Management System (WMS) SaaS company in Japan.</li>
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Welcome to Part 2 of my logistics series. I’ll briefly talk about a nanocap that could benefit from the shake-up in the logistics industry.
This particularly interested me because it covers 2 themes I like which are: the 2024 Problem but also the 2025 Digital Cliff (in other words, DX).
The company is Logizard $4391.JP, which is not a Pokemon (You’re thinking about Charizard) but probably the only listed pure-play Warehouse Management System (WMS) SaaS company in Japan.


Logistics in Crisis ? The 2024 Problem: Part 2

<ul><li>Japan seems to have some kind of ‘problem’ every year. As in, we have a ‘2024 problem’, the 2025 digital cliff, the ‘2027 problem’.</li><li>I know what you’re thinking, we are severely lacking creative names…</li><li>We’re 8+ full months into the year, but I’ll take a jab at an important deadline that we passed in Japan.</li></ul>

Japan seems to have some kind of ‘problem’ every year. As in, we have a ‘2024 problem’, the 2025 digital cliff, the ‘2027 problem’.I know what you’re thinking, we are severely lacking creative names…We’re 8+ full months into the year, but I’ll take a jab at an important deadline that we passed in Japan.

Logistics in Crisis? the 2024 Problem: Part 1

Genda Inc. operates amusement businesses. The Company provides amusement facilities operation, online crane game operation, amusement machine rental, and other services. Genda provides its services throughout Japan.

<ul><li>With a recent interest hike by the BOJ of a “colossal” 0.25%, the global stock market went into meltdown.</li><li>The Nikkei and TOPIX have seen a record streak of declines presumably due to unwinding of carry trades and retail investors getting margin calls. (We had a record amount of shares bought on margin).</li><li>As the expectations for further rate hikes increased, naturally companies that were debt-heavy were also sold down quite a bit.</li></ul>

With a recent interest hike by the BOJ of a “colossal” 0.25%, the global stock market went into meltdown.The Nikkei and TOPIX have seen a record streak of declines presumably due to unwinding of carry trades and retail investors getting margin calls. (We had a record amount of shares bought on margin).As the expectations for further rate hikes increased, naturally companies that were debt-heavy were also sold down quite a bit.

CYND Co.,Ltd. develops a hairdressing and beauty stores reservation management system. The Company provides hairdressing and beauty stores coupon setting, staff management, shift management, and other services. CYND provides its services throughout Japan.

<ul><li>This is another micro-cap idea, sorry if this might be too illiquid for you!</li><li>This company was mentioned recently on VIC providing some good detail which I recommend reading.</li><li>I’ve been following this one since speaking to them earlier this year and also think it’s an interesting name.</li></ul>

This is another micro-cap idea, sorry if this might be too illiquid for you!This company was mentioned recently on VIC providing some good detail which I recommend reading.I’ve been following this one since speaking to them earlier this year and also think it’s an interesting name.

High Quality SaaS Company Growing Double Digits Trading at 1.7x NTM Sales and 6.9x EBITDA