Hitoshi Kimura, President and CEO served as the guest speaker for a Special Lecture at the 58th Tokai Pharmaceutical Conference (December 7, 2025), hosted by the Aichi Pharmaceutical Association.(The 58th Tokai Pharmaceutical Conference, Special Lecture: “Issues and Outlook for Japan’s Pharmaceutical Supply from an International Perspective”)

Hitoshi Kimura, President and CEO, served as a guest speaker for an educational lecture at the Joint Academic Congress of Three Societies (October 18-19, 2025). The congress was held by the Japanese Society of Oral Therapeutics and Pharmacology, the Japan Dental Society of Oriental Medicine, and the Japanese Association for Oral Infectious Diseases.(October 19, 2025, Educational Lecture 2 at the Joint Academic Congress of Three Societies: “Fundamental Causes of Pharmaceutical Supply Shortages and the Challenge of Ensuring Stable Supply in Japan”)

An article of a guest lecture by Hitoshi Kimura, President and CEO, was published in the September issue of the Journal of Japan Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Association (2025 Vol.49 No.9).(July 17th, 2025, Lecture session at “HILL TOP SEMINAR 2025”: “Changes in the Pharmaceutical Distribution Environment and the Potential of Pharma Wholesalers”)

A comment on the stable supply of pharmaceuticals by Chikako Koike, Head of the Healthcare Research Center, was published in Nihon Keizai Shimbun (morning edition, dated April 7, 2025).（”80% of Essential Drugs Result in “Loss-Making Delivery” for Wholesalers; Risk to Stable Supply of Antibiotics, etc. “）