Merculet Japan Co., Ltd. Expands to Tokyo, Japan

Nikkei BP sends congratulatory message and looks forward to Merculet's success in both Japanese and global market

Stanley Hu Kenji Fujita Kazuyoshi Kodaira Takashi Hara

LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2018 -- In April of 2018, with the expansion of Merculet's international Blockchain business, Merculet Japan Co., Ltd. officially announced its establishment in Tokyo, Japan.

Starting in May, Partner of Merculet and CEO of Merculet Japan Co., Ltd. Stanley Hu will be stationed in Japan, responsible for the development and cooperation of blockchain business in Japan.

The decision of Japan as the first stop of Merculet’s global strategic layout is the fruit of careful deliberations and adequate preparation. Vested in Blockchain in early 2017, Ivan Jiang, the CEO of Merculet, sent Stanley whom he had cooperated for many years, to the Japanese market for research and strategic layout of Blockchain technology.

Stanley Hu is one of the earliest founders of the social media index in China, serving hundreds of well-known companies such as P&G, Unilever, Coca-Cola, L'Oreal Group, General Motors, and Nike. Starting a business in Japan and quitting after winning merit in his early years, he has been exploring the Japanese market for years.

He was formerly the head of Sizmek East China (formerly known as MediaMind, one of the world's largest third-party monitoring and data analysis companies) and familiar with Asia markets, especially luxury brands such as LVMH, Kering, and Richmond Group. He’s also the founder of Blossom Trading, one of the first cross-border e-commerce companies in China and the Japanese market advisor for well-known cross-border e-commerce companies of China. Having branches in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Japan, he has achieved considerable success in business.

In the past years, Stanley has helped Japan’s Nikkei Group’s brand business and JTB Group, Japan’s largest travel agency, to expand into Chinese market. He has also assisted numerous Chinese companies in entering and understanding the Japanese market, including travel, e-commerce, and ACG, etc.

Well connected, Stanley Hu and the Nikkei BP (founded in 1969 as part of the Japan Economic News Corporation and Japan’s largest commercial publishing group) reached in depth cooperation last year. Successfully introducing the exclusive agency business of Greater China of Tokyo Game Show, the world’s second-largest game show, for Ivan Jiang, paving the way for Merculet's entry into the Japanese market.

“The establishment of Merculet Japan Co., Ltd. is not just a spur of the moment. In the past year, Japan’s business cooperation demand has been strong, and Nikkei BP also expects more cooperation. It is not just the Tokyo Game Show cooperation project but including cooperation in other related businesses, such as the first Greater China cooperation in the true sense like Japan Women's Exhibition; and due to the cooperation foundation with the Tokyo Game Show, Tokaigi, an organization of the Japanese e-sports, hopes to learn more about Chinese market."

Stanley Hu said, "We sincerely welcome people of insight in various fields to join us for Merculet Japan's Blockchain development. In addition to the related copyright cooperation in the Japanese market, in Tokyo, Merculet has already recruited a group of outstanding partners including elitists with rich experience in finance, content supervision and other industries. We will also update the progress of recruitment in the near future. I trust in the Japanese market’s recognition for Merculet, and expect Merculet Japan can lay a solid foundation for the global layout of Merculet."

For the arrival of Merculet Japan Co., Ltd., the senior leaders of Nikkei BP in the most in-depth cooperation with Merculet has sent their congratulatory messages.

(Kenji Fujita, Senior Chief Director of Nikkei BP)

“I am very glad to learn that Merculet, Ivan Jiang’s Blockchain project is about to enter the Japanese market. The Japanese Blockchain market is one of the most regulated markets in the world, and we are also looking forward to Merculet's success in both Japanese and global market."

(Kazuyoshi Kodaira, Deputy Editor of Nikkei Business Weekly, Nikkei BP)

“Hello, everyone, I’m Kazuyoshi Kodaira of Nikkei BP and I’ve known Ivan Jiang through cooperation in Greater China of Tokyo’s Game Show. Ivan Jiang is an energetic and passionate entrepreneur. I am so glad to know that his team's blockchain project Merculet is entering Japan. We wish the project a great success, and we are also really looking forward to follow-up cooperation opportunities."

(Takashi Hara, Chief Editor of Nikkei FinTech)

“Ivan Jiang believes that in the distributed commercial society of the future, large monopolistic companies will no longer exist, and more tribal businesses will flourish instead. I’m very impressed with this statement. I have interviewed many Blockchain projects and Merculet’s prospects and its development in both Japanese and global market are expected.”

On the eve of the establishment of Merculet Japan Co., Ltd., the Nikkei BP Agency interviewed Merculet CEO Ivan Jiang. Merculet is the first Chinese Blockchain innovation enterprise interviewed by Nikkei and Ivan Jiang, the third Chinese entrepreneur, to be interviewed in Nikkei Chinese CEO series. The two CEOs previously reported by Nikkei were respectively Qiangdong Liu, the Chairman and Executive Director of JD.com Group and Jie Sun, CEO of Ctrip.com.

The original report of Merculet by Nikkei BP:
http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/report/15/278549/041200017/?P=1

Merculet is accelerating the pace of internationalization. We are also steadily advancing our strategic layout in other countries. Local partners with ideas or resources are always welcomed. Contact us via email: [email protected]

Merculet Japan website is coming soon, so stay tuned: www.merculet.jp

About Merculet
Merculet is poised to be the Chief Growth Officer for global entrepreneurs. It provides a turn-key solution that allows clients to embrace token-based operation without knowing much details about blockchain technology. You don’t need to learn any complicated blockchain programming, all you need is a few lines of configuration code, and you will instantly gain the ability to operate your business in a tokenized manner.  It will also seamlessly integrate your business into the token-based ecosystem where the value can flow.

Over the past three years, the Merculet team has created a number of products that are stable and have smooth operation models, serving more than 2,700 medium and large apps with more than 30 million daily active users and billions of pageviews per day.

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