Hitoshi Fujiwara

In a career spanning more than 20 years, Hitoshi Fujiwara has supported numerous owner-operator businesses and startups, as well as providing accounting audits for IPOs. His recent focus is helping startups in the health care sector.

In Fiscal 2019, he led IPO audits for three companies listing on the TSE Mothers market, and in Fiscal 2018, he performed an IPO audit for a company that achieved a Mothers’ listing just four years after its establishment (effectively the shortest span that year).

He has served as a director for the Japan Medical Venture Association, advisor for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Healthcare Innovation Hub, and committee member in 2018 and 2019 for a study commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on promoting services not covered by public care insurance toward the establishment of comprehensive regional care systems. He also has extensive experience as a judge for business contests held by the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, universities and other organizations.

He has authored several titles about capital strategy and the foodservices industry.

He is a Japan certified public accountant.

Building a better working world

“I contribute to the venture ecosystem by planning, administering and speaking at a range of events and seminars. These include the EY Japan Enterprise Growth Summit and Innovation Leaders Summit, as well as cross-sector networking events, in addition to focusing on discovering and assisting startups.

My challenge is building a better working world by working to reform industry structures and assisting innovative startups with products and services which are new to the world.

I’m now shifting my focus to healthcare ventures which tackle the major problems faced by  the sector, and Japanese society more broadly.”