Hisashi Endo

Part of Advantage Partners LC Ltd., Advantage Advisors, Inc. is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2007.

Part of YCP Holdings (Global) Ltd., J-Foods Hong Kong Ltd. is a company that operates restaurants. J-Foods Hong Kong Ltd. is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. J-Foods Hong Kong was acquired by YCP Holdings (Global) Ltd. on January 27, 2020 for $7.72 million. Founded in 2014.

MP Kitchen Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company founded in 1992 that operates several restaurants in Tokyo, JP. The company's restaurants include a tsukemen specialty store, a Shibuya gyoza restaurant that specializes in thin skin gyoza, and a western-style restaurant called "Grilled Domi Kosugi" that serves dishes with their signature Domigrass sauce to all customers.

Advantage Partners Inc /JP/ (AP) is an independent Japan-based private equity firm which was founded in 1992 by Taisuke Sasanuma and Richard Folsom. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo. AP invests directly in private equity and manages the MBI private equity funds for a range of domestic and foreign institutions including insurance companies, banks and corporations. The firm has close business ties with wholesale trader Marubeni Corp. (TSE: 8002). AP pioneered private equity investment in Japan and retains a leadership position in the private equity community.