ISFnet Inc. (株式会社アイエスエフネット) is a multinational integrated IT services company based in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
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Japan. The company was founded in January 2000
[American Chamber of Commerce Japan Journal July 2006 "Upsetting the Status Quo: From Service to Customer Serving" http://www.accj.or.jp/doclib/journal/15_ss_it_july06.pdf ] by Japanese
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...
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Yukiyoshi Watanabe
is a Japanese entrepreneur and author of the business and personal management book ''Future Notes: The Open Road''.
Entrepreneurship
Watanabe is the founder and CEO of ISFnet Inc., a Tokyo-based integrated IT services company. He has pioneer ...
(渡邉 幸義). It currently operates in 16 locations
[ISFnet Company Profile http://www.isfnet.co.jp/company/office.html] across Japan and has subsidiaries in
China,
Korea
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and
Singapore
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ISFnet Harmony Ltd.
ISFnet Harmony Ltd. is a wholly owned
subsidiary of ISFnet Inc, designated as a ''special'' subsidiary under the
Japanese Disability Employment Encouragement Law. Set up in 2008, ISFnet Harmony Ltd. offers employment opportunities in the IT sector to people with disabilities.
[ZDnet Japan, April 18th 2008, "Company Stories: ISFnet Harmony", http://japan.zdnet.com/company/story/0,3200081168,20170610,00.htm]
ISFnet Care Ltd.
ISFnet Care Ltd. was established to offer diverse employment opportunities to groups of people who often find themselves excluded from the mainstream labor force, such as primary caregivers, people with disabilities or mental health problems.
Hospitality In IT
ISFnet Inc. has pioneered ''
hospitality
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'' in the IT services sector (the adoption of 5-star hotel service standards), and was the focus of a book, ''IT Business Strategy and Corporate Hospitality''
[Masamitsu Hayashida, 2010, "IT Business Strategy and Corporate Hospitality", Diamond Inc., Tokyo] by Japanese business guru
Masamitsu Hayashida.,
[Hayashida Institute, http://www.hayashida-cs.co.jp/profile.html ]
Domestic Offices
Sapporo
( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous ci ...
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Sendai
is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the ''daimyō'' Date M ...
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Utsunomiya
is the prefectural capital city of Tochigi Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 519,223, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Utsunomiya is famous for its ''gyoza'' ...
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Numazu
is a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 189,486 in 91,986 households, and a population density of 1,014 persons per km2. The total area of the city is .
Geography
Numazu is at the no ...
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Shizuoka,
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most p ...
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Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
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Hiroshima,
Fukuoka
is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center ...
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Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
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Morioka
is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. On 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 290,700 in 132,719 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is .
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