Company

Company nameSTUDIO NIKA, Inc.
Japanese notation株式会社STUDIO NIKA
EstablishmentJuly 2022
LocationDai-ichi Hokushin Bldg. 301, 2-1-7 Tsuruma, Yamato-shi, Kanagawa 242-0004, Japan
Board memberCEO / Ryutaroh Sakai
CMO / Shota Hagiwara
CSO/ Roi Matsuura

CTO/ Yota Kobai
AdvisorSawai Tax Accountant Office
BankYokohama Shinkin Bank
BusinessWebsite production
System & app development
Marketing consulting
Creative direction
Advertising & graphic design
Import, planning and brand development of overseas products; e-commerce

CEO
Ryutaroh Sakai

CMO
Shota Hagiwara

CSO
Roi Matsuura

CTO
Yota Kobai

Corporate Message

“Challenge, as a matter of course.”This is our VISION.

Challenge isn’t something reserved for a select few. Stepping into a new market, or changing a way of working you have long been comfortable with — each one is a step.
When that becomes ordinary, both people and companies become freer.

Rather than compete within existing frameworks, we choose to build our own markets and make our own rules.
What we’re after is the freedom that comes from taking on challenges and having real choices.

We have not stayed on the receiving end of briefs. We build our own businesses and keep taking real risks.
That is why we can face our clients’ challenges as someone standing in the same place, not as an outsider handing over a proposal.

However big our business grows, the questions stay the same:
How do we make the customer in front of us genuinely happy?
How do we make the work something our team enjoys?
Without both, growth means nothing to us.

And one day, everyone who has worked with us will go on to take on challenges of their own, wherever they are.
That is the kind of company we want to be.

The rise of AI is just one example: in the IT industry, the ground keeps shifting.
What was the right answer yesterday can stop working today.
To keep meeting our clients’ challenges, we keep learning and challenging ourselves.

We keep moving forward, unafraid of change.

STUDIO NIKA, Inc.
CEO Ryutaroh Sakai

CEO’s Career

2018: Worked in sales at an advertising agency, driving new client acquisition through door-to-door sales to major gourmet media outlets.
2019: Worked in sales at a startup, while also starting to learn programming.
2020: Moved into the IT industry, working as a front-end engineer and designer.
    Around the same time, joined a dating-app development project as an executive officer, contributing to its strategy and execution.
After leaving that role, worked freelance on web development and UI/UX design projects.
2022: Founded STUDIO NIKA, Inc., and continues to lead the company today.