We work through a network of family offices and investors in Japan, the U.S. and Asia, and with specialists in each field, so that families and companies on both sides can transact with confidence. Our founding partners’ families invest alongside the families we work with.
Secondary and late-stage positions in leading U.S. private companies. These allocations come to us as Japanese founding families: the companies want a long-term shareholder who brings trust, corporate relationships and a path into the Japanese market, not only capital. Our founding partners’ families often invest in the same rounds, and the allocation is shared with families and investors outside Japan.
Data center sites, off-market commercial buildings, hotels and former factory land in Greater Tokyo, and residences, townhouses and ryokan in Tokyo, Kyoto, Niseko and Karuizawa, from a single asset to a portfolio. Few of these assets ever reach the market. The families holding them, often planning for inheritance and succession, do not want to sell publicly, and offer them to JINEN privately because they know us. Our partner’s family has held and managed real estate for generations, and JINEN works through those relationships.
We bring international companies into Japan and run their first year: partners, first customers, hiring, licensing and launch. We work with Ultra Super New, the Tokyo agency whose clients include Red Bull, Nike, Salesforce, Adobe and Duolingo.
Japan is one of the world’s deepest secondary markets for art and fine watches. We source works from Edo-period masters to modern nihonga, and rare and vintage timepieces, from Japanese collectors and dealers, and place them privately or through the auction houses. Our chairman is the tenth generation of the house of Maruyama Ōkyo, the eighteenth-century Kyoto painter regarded as the father of modern Japanese painting.
Chairman & Founding Partner
Arata comes from the founding family of one of Japan’s major industrial groups, headquartered in Kyoto. He spent five years in Silicon Valley, where he founded AI startups in music and healthcare and led a multinational team of 40.
Founding Partner
Hide is a third-generation member of the family of Sony co-founder Akio Morita and the eighteenth generation of the Morita sake-brewing family, whose brewery was founded in 1665. He leads the Sony Family Office, overseeing the family’s investments and long-term stewardship of its legacy across generations.
In 2022 he founded Queri Co., Ltd., a platform connecting Japanese entertainment IP and fans around the world, and he serves as its CEO.
Chief of Staff
Koki is chief of staff at JINEN. He has worked at several Japanese VC firms and in Deloitte’s Financial Advisory (FA) practice, where he carried out due diligence for PE firms and worked on corporate turnarounds.
We work by introduction.