ANS Associates

Welcome to the ANS Associates website!

  We at ANS Associates have launched and are managing ANSLists2.0, a website that introduces "friendly" companies and organizations that aim for a sustainable, human- and environment-friendly society. We are convinced that the corporate activities of the 21st century will be carried out by these "friendly" companies. 

ANSLists2.0 is currently available mainly in Japanese, but we are also working on an English version.

  We have long been a business consulting team that assists companies in their collaborative activities in the following two areas

• Supporting foreign companies in the technology field to enter the Japanese market, including collaborative activities with Japanese companies.
• Support for Japanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs), NPOs, and other organizations seeking to develop creative technologies and products through collaboration and partnership, both in Japan and abroad, in their search for partners.

  Through our consulting activities, we strongly felt that there should be an information support site to introduce Japanese SMEs with excellent technologies to overseas markets. Therefore, in 2007, we launched and have been operating two projects, ANSListsβ and ANSLists Video (also known as CxO Interview).

　　ANSLists2.0 mentioned above is an extension of the these projects, and the main activity of ANS Associates now is the continuous and progressive development and operation of the ANSLists2.0 information site.

Offices

Our offices are located in Tokyo and Okinawa.

Contact

Email: anslists@ansassociates.jp

Team

Akio Saito

Akio is Co-founder of ANSLists2.0 project with which we are listing companies expected to be contributors to ensuring sustainability of the earth and the global society. He used to be General Partner at a business consulting firm, ANS Associates, which was founded in 2006. He is a seasoned executive in ICT industry where he used to run Japan operations for various foreign companies for over 30 years. Prior to the roles working for the foreign companies, he had worked for Hitachi, Ltd where taking several management roles at an international business sector of ICT field. He holds BSc degree in Electric Engineering at Keio University in Tokyo where he lives.

Akihiko Ogura

Akihiko is Co-founding partner of ANSLists2.0 project. Thoughtfully understanding the concept of ANSLists2.0 project, he has kindly agreed to support us by bringing his innovative ideas, jointly launching and operating the project, despite of his retirement ages and being fully absorbed in diving.

He is a seasoned veteran in public relations field where he mainly worked for foreign country-based IT companies ranging from computers manufacturers, information & communications systems manufacturers through a telecommunications service provider. He holds LLM degree at Vanderbilt University Law school. He lives in Okinawa since 2011.

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(Advisor)

Mr. Tetsuo Mikami

Mr. Mikami was a business partner at ANS Associates. He is an influential seasoned veteran with his unparalleled successful track records in the telecom carrier space and industries, founded CASL (Challenge And Smile Laboratories) to provide consulting services for global business and human resources development in 2013.

Before founding CASL, Mr. Mikami was Vice President and Executive Officer at Hitachi Cable.  Prior to Hitachi Cable, he spent more than 30 years with NTT Group, taking a variety of senior executive positions which included CEO of NTT Singapore, Vice President of Global Business at NTT Communications, General Manager of Long Distance at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone), Director of Corporate Planning at NTT America, and Senior Manager, Europe and North America at NTT.

Mr. Mikami holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electronic Engineering from Yokohama National University (YNU).  He serves Yokohama Kogyoukai, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation as Director of the board. He also serves Alumni Association of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at YNU as Chairman.