Monthly Business Planning: A New Growth Model for Food – October 2025 Issue on Sale
Advanced Educational Corporation Press release: September 1, 2025 Monthly “Business Planning” New Growth Model for “Food” – October 2025 Issue on Sale [Regional Feature] Okayama Prefecture Governor Ryuta Ibaragi: “We aim to be a prefecture where everyone can take on challenges without fear of failure” [Anniversary Company President Interview] Tosoh [Series] Tackling Ocean Issues through Co-creation The Publishing Department of the Graduate School of Project Design (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Risa Tanaka), part of the Advanced Educational Institution, released the October 2025 issue of “Monthly Project Design,” a specialized magazine on corporate revitalization, regional revitalization, and innovation, on Monday, September 1st. https://www.projectdesign.jp/2025010
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-cfc5cd8c51a011cc7d544970694e6671-607×800.jpg Monthly business plan October 2025 issue [Special Feature] A New Growth Model for Food
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-2d2ad179f757e26831e37a0453486da8-1756×1158.jpg With the increasing overseas expansion of Japanese restaurants and the increase in exports of domestic ingredients, food is becoming a representative feature of Japan. At the same time, Japan faces challenges such as rising food prices, especially for rice, and a declining self-sufficiency rate, and approximately 700 million people worldwide still face hunger. New business ideas are needed to ensure a sustainable food supply. • Spreading Japanese food culture and contributing to improving self-sufficiency / Genki Global Dining Concepts • “Torikizoku” Spreads Its Wings Around the World: Spreading Yakitori Culture and Making “YAKITORI” a Global Language / Eternal Hospitality Group • Pursuing the possibilities of soybeans. Leveraging our research and development capabilities to create new foods. / Marusanai • Promoting behavioral change through policies and guidelines to prevent food waste / Ministry of the Environment • Business creation through internal solicitation, co-creation through CVC / House Foods and others
[Regional Feature] Okayama Prefecture
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-2e7c9c4997a0327c1f11dde35c283680-1754×1157.jpg Okayama Prefecture is home to the Mizushima Industrial Zone, one of Japan’s leading heavy chemical complexes. Okayama Prefecture is a manufacturing prefecture with manufacturing as its core industry, with petroleum and coal product manufacturing, chemicals, and steel accounting for the top shipment values. Thanks to the prefecture’s warm climate and long hours of sunshine, fruit cultivation is thriving. Muscat of Alexandria, Pione, and Shimizu white peaches have the largest market share nationwide. Okayama Prefecture is currently implementing measures to address the declining birthrate, as well as strengthening the international competitiveness of the Mizushima Industrial Zone and agriculture. Aiming to make Okayama Prefecture a place where everyone can take on challenges without fear of failure Okayama Prefecture has achieved success with three policies: “Revitalizing Education,” “Promoting Industry,” and “Creating Communities Where People Feel Safe and Prosperous.” Starting in fiscal year 2025, the prefecture will work on a new comprehensive plan, adding measures to combat the declining birthrate as a new pillar of its priority policies. Through this plan, Governor Ibaragi aims to realize a “Vibrant Okayama” where all prefectural residents live with bright smiles.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-401dac6c8b5084ba2e76b302f2511fb5-795×515.png Okayama Prefecture Governor Ryuta Ibaragi Interviewing noteworthy businesses in Okayama Prefecture • “Chugin Financial Group” Bank Transforms Innovatively to a “Culture of Tolerance for Failure” • “Nippon Kabaya Ohayo Holdings” Structural Reforms Driven by the Top Management • “Kuraray” Develops Numerous Global Top Share Products: “Three Challenges” Tackled Over Five Years • “Betty Smith” Jeans Museum: Creating originality through a “non-combat strategy” Top Philosophy and Ideas
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-1b264b2a60e4a65c18d65d77da78a837-350×260.png Yuji Mikasa, Representative Director, Kansai Association of Corporate Executives Kansai Economic Association “Expo Legacy Committee” Seizing development opportunities by leveraging Kansai’s strengths Yuji Mikasa, Representative Director, Kansai Economic Association Osaka and Kansai are buzzing with excitement over the World Expo. The Kansai Economic Association, which acts as a “policy proposal group to pioneer a new era,” has established the “Expo Legacy Committee” to promote initiatives aimed at new growth for Kansai and Japan. Professor Satoshi Takeyasu of the Graduate School of Project Design spoke with Representative Director Yuji Mikasa about the association’s efforts and future vision. • Toru Kimura, President and CEO, Sumitomo Pharma • Interviews with Hiroyuki Ueshima, President and CEO of Nagase & Co., Ltd., and many other executives
[Special Feature] The New President Speaks Vision for Leap Forward
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-accbbd458606078318b022e186325de2-330×260.png Nisshinbo: Providing solutions to social issues with its core wireless and communications businesses Making a major transformation in our business portfolio Yasuji Ishii, President and CEO, Nisshinbo Holdings Nisshinbo Holdings, founded in 1907, has a history spanning over 100 years. From its original textile business, the company has diversified its business to keep up with the times. Its current “Medium-Term Management Plan 2026” aims to “create value through connecting technologies.” With its core wireless and communications businesses, the company aims for further growth by approaching both public and private sector customers. • Koichi Kato, Nikkiso Representative Director, President and Executive Officer • Tomohiro Hosaka, President and CEO, IHI Power Systems
Featured Articles & Series ＜Pioneer Breakthrough Power＞ Shioya Ayumi, Painter and Writer The world of architecture and art that spread from a public bathhouse: A story of people and space that continues to be passed down Graduate School of Business Design New business from MPD / Collaborating with local companies to develop original non-alcoholic beverages – Yuki Yokoyama, NEXCO East Japan Area Tract, Tohoku Branch (11th Sendai Campus Graduate / 2023 Graduate) MPD Newsletter / Experience MPD Knowledge at an Open Campus Also featured are articles related to keywords such as “new business,” “regional revitalization,” “concepts,” “ideas,” “innovation,” “DX,” “SDGs,” “decarbonization,” “healthcare,” and “local government.” All photos in this release are taken from the October 2025 issue of Monthly Business Concepts.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/36930/500/36930-500-6f4201aff85eb9ab939fd6e7e8fc7ae1-607×800.jpg Magazine overview “Monthly Business Plan” October 2025 issue Publisher: Advanced Educational Corporation Business Planning Graduate University Publishing Department Price: 1,300 yen (tax included) ASIN: B0F29H82X9 Available for purchase at bookstores nationwide. Also available on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0F29H82X9/ About Monthly Business Planning Founded in September 2012, this specialized magazine focuses on corporate revitalization, regional revitalization, and innovation. This event will introduce case studies that will provide hints for new business ventures and organizational management for business managers, new business managers, and local government leaders from across the country who are seeking new business ideas. https://www.projectdesign.jp/ About the Graduate School of Project Design Opened in April 2012 in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, this graduate school is geared toward working professionals, helping them develop and implement business concepts and plans. It offers a diverse curriculum designed to help students develop ideas from the very foundation of their business, develop ideal business concepts, weave ideas for realizing them, and develop business plans. After engaging in extensive discussions with faculty and graduate students active in a variety of industries and submitting a business concept plan over two years, students are awarded a professional degree, the Master of Project Design (MPD). The program is currently in its 14th term, with five campuses in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Sendai. A total of 829 students have graduated, creating numerous innovative new businesses. Additionally, the university’s affiliated research institute, the Business Design Research Institute, actively conducts project-based research for companies and businesses, with over 4,500 students having already completed its courses. The institute also publishes research books, including the monthly magazine Business Design. For more information, please see the graduate school website ( https://www.mpd.ac.jp/ ). *Rated “compliant” in the university accreditation evaluation (by field of specialization and institution) by the Japan University Accreditation Association, a public interest incorporated foundation *Designated for the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s education and training subsidy (specialized practical education and training) (providing up to 1.28 million yen from the government) Outline of the Advanced Educational Institution Name: Advanced Educational Corporation Chairman: Hideya Higashi Location: 3-13-16 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo School: Business Planning Graduate University (Headquarters: 3-13-16 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) (Based: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, Sendai) : Social Planning Graduate University (3-13-18 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Affiliated organizations: Business Planning Research Institute, Advanced Education Research Institute Published: Monthly Business Planning, Monthly Advanced Education, Books, etc.
