At a glance
| Booth | Q6135 |
| Country | JP |
| Website | www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2026/0727 |
Company profile
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based real-estate and urban-development company whose business portfolio includes office buildings, commercial facilities, hotels and resorts, logistics, housing and neighborhood creation. Through Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, the company describes an open platform for solutions based on partnerships among the public, private and academic sectors, addressing areas including environment, energy, food and health. As part of new-industry creation, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. builds a life-science ecosystem that brings together the knowledge, technology and capital of start-ups, universities, hospitals, major pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders to advance R&D across industry boundaries. Its LINK-J activity is positioned as a platform where people and information in life science can interact, connect and cooperate while receiving opportunities for growth and support toward new-industry creation. The company has developed interaction sites including the Nihonbashi Life Science Building, meeting rooms, offices and shared wet labs, and it has been commissioned to operate part of the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Lab. Mitsui Lab & Office combines full-scale wet labs with offices, and collaboration with LINK-J is intended to provide both tangible and intangible support while addressing R&D-environment issues in Japan's life-science domain. Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. also makes limited-partner investments in funds targeting life-science companies and describes progress-stage support and brokering as ways to help technological seeds materialize and accelerate new-industry creation. Its 31VENTURES initiative pursues venture co-creation through corporate venture capital (CVC), workspaces and community, including support for CVC funding, direct investment, external venture capital and startup workspaces. In industry-academia collaboration, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. combines academic knowledge and technology with its experience in neighborhood creation and works toward social implementation of joint-research results. The company launched the Mitsui Fudosan UTokyo Laboratory in 2020 and has conducted joint research including empirical studies of autonomous drone flight for in-building logistics in non-GNSS environments. With Tohoku University, it is researching how humans and robots can coexist in offices, using AI robotics and sensor technologies to develop interactive robotic systems related to worker health and productive office environments. With Kyushu University, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. is researching the future of advanced industrial clusters in northern Kyushu against a backdrop of strategic semiconductor and peripheral-manufacturing investment, using the Inclusive Wealth Index as part of the research framework.
Exhibits
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., Koshi City and Kumamoto Prefecture entered a Kumamoto Science Park Project Promotion Partner Basic Agreement for development that includes an Innovation Creation Area of approximately 76 acres, approximately 31 ha, intended to provide semiconductor assets and community. The planned science-park development is intended to support a semiconductor-industry community with integrated R&D and mass-production functions for diverse semiconductor participants. The company's semiconductor initiative is framed as an effort toward building a semiconductor industry ecosystem and includes support for companies entering the market. It also promotes Japan-Taiwan business matchmaking opportunities through community activities, adding a cross-border business-development element to the ecosystem effort. Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. is also conducting joint research with Kyushu University on the future of advanced industrial clusters in northern Kyushu as strategic investment accelerates in the semiconductor industry and peripheral manufacturing industries. That Kyushu University research uses the Inclusive Wealth Index, which considers human capital, produced capital and natural capital, as part of its framework for examining future advanced industrial clusters. The company's broader innovation model includes creating physical interaction spaces, shared wet labs and university-linked sites, showing how its real-estate development capabilities can be paired with environments for research, collaboration and industry formation. Its life-science experience includes venture offices, service offices, conference rooms, lounges and shared wet labs in Nihonbashi, where the company has gathered life-science participants centered on venture companies. Through 31VENTURES, the company combines CVC, workspace and community functions to support startup co-creation, a structure that complements its approach to developing industry ecosystems and places for business interaction. Industry-academia activities add a research layer to that model through joint projects with universities, including the University of Tokyo, Tohoku University and Kyushu University. For semiconductor-related positioning, these activities place Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. as a real-estate and science-park developer supporting clusters, research environments, market entry and business connections rather than as a semiconductor equipment or materials supplier.
Capabilities and products
- semiconductor science-park development
- semiconductor industry community and asset development
- shared wet-lab development for life sciences
- startup CVC, workspace and community support
- Japan-Taiwan business matchmaking