Representative's Remarks Message

Ine Kikkawa founded Kikko Corporation in 1979, with the aim of contributing to Japan's response to globalization, particularly through the provision of interpreting, translation and personnel dispatch services. This year, the company has entered its 41st business year and, as information becomes increasingly global, the company continues to focus its business on hospitality that joins people together in the international community.

Thanks to the support we have received, we are now able to accept orders for the important work required to build trust, playing the role as an bridge linking people together not only through our foreign language service business, which includes interpreting and translation, but also through the planning and management services that support international conferences, conventions and other similar events. While leveraging the traditions and approaches of the Japanese people to place an emphasis on etiquette, we also train staff with an awareness of the rules, knowledge and manners required in international society, as we move forward towards realizing our goal of achieving true international cooperation that goes beyond the boundaries of language and culture.

In August 2016, Kikko Corporation became a member of the Withus Co., Ltd. Group, a business providing educational services and listed on the JASDAQ market at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and I was appointed as company's representative director and president, to continue the work of the company's founder. Although I am not a man of many talents, I am determined to do my best for the future development of the company. I would like to offer my thanks for the support and trust we have received so far and, as globalization continues to gather pace, we are determined to take firm steps forward, one step at a time, so that we can make a contribution to society by providing support for high-quality global communication over the next 50 to 100 years.