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Company Profile

Company Name

Sirius Co., Ltd.

Capital

70,000,000 yen

Main office

location
Nakajima Building 2F, 1-14-9 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0015
Telephone/Fax
03-5817-4474 / 03-5817-4475

President and CEO

Ryuhei Kamei

Established

October 8, 2008

Fiscal year end

March

Financial Institutions

Jonan Shinkin Bank, Kanda Branch (Regular Account 302729, Name: Sirius Co., Ltd.)

Business Contents

Home appliance and peripheral device manufacturing and wholesale, LED lighting manufacturing and wholesale, environmental sanitation business, consultant

Main Locations

Business bases: Tokyo and Saitama
Manufacturing bases: Suzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Saitama and Tokyo
Distribution bases: Aichi and Tokyo

Affiliated Organizations

Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Japan No-Lift Association

Legal Advisor

Yodoyabashi & Yamagami Joint Law Firm

Company History

October 2008: ES Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in Akabane, Kita-ku, Tokyo by Osamu Kamei (currently Vice President) with capital of 300,000 yen as a distributor of the weakly acidic hypochlorous acid water "Steripower."
April 2011: Started selling Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.'s rice bread cooker "GOPAN"
August 2011: Ryuhei Kamei appointed as President and CEO
September 2011: Head office relocated to Higashi-Tokorozawa, Tokorozawa City
August 2012: Started selling LED fluorescent tubes from Tega Sanyo Industries Co., Ltd.
October 2012: Opened Tokyo office, relocated head office, joined ALSOK Sogo Security Services Kyoeikai
December 2012: Tokyo office expansion
February 2013: Haier Aqua Sales Co., Ltd., Iris Ohyama Co., Ltd., Sankon Nippon Denki Co., Ltd., T.M.Y. Co., Ltd., Takano Co., Ltd., Muto Co., Ltd. and other authorized wholesale distributors.
Capital increased to 10 million yen.
April 2013: Started general home appliance wholesale business centered on nationwide home appliance retailers
October 2013: Developed and started sales of "J-BOY", a space purification system for disinfecting water
November 2013: Developed and started selling the Sirius ECO series of straight LED fluorescent tubes
October 2014: J-BOY disinfectant powder launched
December 2014: Started sales of disinfectant water generating powder "Sterilizing Water Source"
Developed and started sales of J-BOY SVW-AQA1001(W) air purification system
October 2015: Started sales of J-BOY disinfectant powder, a disinfectant water generator
Started sales of J-BOY air purification filter
March 2016: Increased capital to 30 million yen
April 2017: Sales of the world's first water-washable cleaner head "switle" begin
July 2018: Established Yashio Logistics Center
December 2019: Stick-type cordless cleaner "switle" goes on sale.
Featured on TV Tokyo's "World Business Satellite Trend Tamago"
August 2020: Capital increased to 67,225,000 yen
October 2020: Sales of the world's first hypochlorous acid air purifier "Viruswasher®︎" commenced
March 2021: Appeared on TV Tokyo's "Gaia no Yoake"
April 2021: Ryuhei Kamei appointed visiting professor at Kokushikan University's School of Management
April 2022: Hypochlorous acid water generating powder "J-BOY Disinfecting Powder" obtains domestic Halal certification Selected
for Nikkei Business' "Japan's Fastest Growing Companies 2022 Ranking of 100 Companies with Increased Sales" Ranked in
Financial Times' "Asia Pacific Fastest Growing Companies Ranking 2022"
July 2022: Ryuhei Kamei awarded the Order of the Polar Star by the Mongolian government
September 2022: Hypochlorous acid humidifier "switle® moist" now on sale
March 2023: Capital increased to 82,225,000 yen
May 2023: Stick-type cordless cleaner "switle stick" goes on sale
December 2023: Capital increased to 132,225,000 yen
January 2024: Convection oven "CLOOKING" goes on sale
March 2024: Capital reduced to 70,000,000 yen
April 2024: All-in-one care washing tool "switle BODY" goes on sale
October 2024: All-in-one nursing care body washing tool "switle BODY" wins the 2024 Good Design Gold Award
November 2024: All-in-one nursing care body washing tool "switle BODY" won the Tokyo Venture Technology Award Special Prize in 2024

Executive Introduction

Chairman of the Board

Bungo Saito

March 1981: Graduated from Rakuno Gakuen University Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine
April 1981: Senior position at Yamaguchi Prefectural Government
March 1991: Retired from Yamaguchi Prefectural Government
March 1991: Joined Shizumine Kosan Co., Ltd.
May 2003: Appointed Representative Director of the company

President and CEO

Ryuhei Kamei

Born in August 1964 in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
After graduating from the Faculty of Physical Education at Kokushikan University in March 1987, he worked as a secretary to a member of the House of Representatives.
Joined SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. in September 1989. After being assigned to the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Division Service Department, SANYO Life Electronics Co., Ltd., SANYO Electric Air Conditioning Co., Ltd., Marketing Headquarters, and Domestic Sales Headquarters, he was appointed Special Assignment Officer in the Corporate Planning Headquarters in 2008.
He left Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. in 2010 and assumed his current position in August 2011.
In January 2021, he became a visiting professor at Kokushikan University's School of Business Administration.
Specializes in home appliance distribution and lobbying. 6th dan in Judo.

Executive Vice President

Satori Kamei

Born in December 1960 in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo.
After graduating from the Department of Physical Education at Kokushikan University in March 1983, he worked as a health and physical education teacher at a Kawasaki municipal junior high school.
Sirius Co., Ltd. was established in October 2008.
She specializes in finance, accounting, health and hygiene, and holds a second dan in women's judo.

Managing Director

Hideyuki Takahashi

Born in May 1979 in Akita Prefecture.
After dropping out of the Faculty of Law at Kokushikan University in March 2002, he worked in a number of production jobs at advertising agencies, production companies, and other organisations.
Joined Sirius Co., Ltd. in August 2020.
His specialties are promotional material production, website development and operation, and management.

Director

Tetsuya Konishi

Born in April 1985 in Miyagi Prefecture.
After graduating from the Department of Design Science, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology and completing a Master's course in Design Science at the Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, he worked in the Panasonic Design Department, where he was responsible for the design of video cameras and wearable devices.
In 2018, he became independent and established exiii design Inc. He works on projects in a wide range of fields, focusing on product design in a wide range of categories, including wearables, robots, and welfare equipment.
He has received various awards both domestically and internationally, including the Dyson Design Award, domestic runner-up and international runner-up.

Chief Advisor

Hidehiko Nakagawa

March 1986: Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University
April 1986: Joined Nikko Securities
1991 Joined Prudential Bechet Securities in the United States
1996: Internet service established
2006: Established Vietnam-Japan Consultant Co., Ltd.
2009 Vietnam-Japan Vocational School established
2014: Wagyu restaurant Ushiwaka established
2017: STVG Co., Ltd. was established
2018: Three Ministop franchise stores launched
Hadras Vietnam established in 2021