LINK-J proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary.
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has
walked alongside us and helped build this community.
LINK-J proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has walked alongside us and helped build this community.
LINK-J is a general incorporated association established in March 2016 by Mitsui Fudosan together with leaders from academia and industry. Based in Nihonbashi, a district that has flourished as a center of pharmaceutical innovation since the Edo period, LINK-J has expanded its collaborations across Japan and around the world. With the aim of promoting open innovation and building a vibrant ecosystem in the life sciences, LINK-J has continued its activities for the past decade.
The fields we cover are broad, ranging from regenerative medicine, personalized medicine, drug discovery, medical devices, and healthcare IT to disease prevention, pre-disease care, and healthy longevity. Over the past ten years, LINK-J has grown into one of Japan’s largest life science communities, with approximately 1,000 participating companies and organizations. Pharmaceutical companies, universities, research institutions, startups, and venture capital firms come together through more than 1,000 events held annually, supported by an information platform generating hundreds of thousands of page views each month.
By fostering connections and collaboration beyond the boundaries of industry, academia, and government, LINK-J has worked to create new value and strengthen the global competitiveness of Japan’s life science sector. Today, as Japan’s life sciences move into the next stage, LINK-J is further strengthening its initiatives. We are accelerating community building that encourages collaboration and co-creation, providing optimal support to those who take on the challenge of innovation, and sharing forward-looking insights that serve as starting points for future value creation. Moving beyond indirect support, we are also stepping into more direct forms of engagement. As a catalyst that generates “waves” across the entire life science ecosystem, LINK-J will continue to build a unique community where diverse perspectives connect, resonate, and function together.
An ecosystem does not evolve by simply waiting for someone else to lead. Progress emerges when challengers connect, knowledge circulates, and capital flows. We believe that this is how Japan’s life science ecosystem will continue to evolve—and how innovations that inspire hope around the world will be born. Over the next ten years and beyond, LINK-J will continue to create value through connection, bringing the future of life sciences from Japan to the world.
LINK-J connects innovators, facilitates the circulation of knowledge, and ensures the flow of capital.
By fostering continuous innovation, it generates solutions that give hope to the world.
As a catalyst for the ecosystem, LINK-J generates “next waves” of opportunity;
accelerating open innovation and driving the implementation of life science innovations from Japan to the world.
Community Building
Over the past decade, LINK-J has fostered communities where diverse players naturally come together and co-creation begins. In 2025 alone, LINK-J hosted 1,254 events, bringing together researchers, companies, startups, government organizations, and investors from Japan and abroad—growing into a vibrant knowledge-sharing network. In addition to large-scale conferences and theme-based seminars, LINK-J has developed a wide range of networking opportunities, including casual member networking events as well as smaller, highly specialized communities such as CEO roundtables and VC-focused groups. Through international networking initiatives such as Japan Night, LINK-J has also created valuable opportunities for global ecosystems and Japanese players to connect. By combining large-scale engagement with focused expert communities, LINK-J continues to cultivate an environment where diverse perspectives intersect and new collaborations emerge.
Innovation Support
Innovation requires both the right support and meaningful connections. To meet this need, LINK-J has launched and operated several startup support initiatives, including UNIKORN and LINK-BioBAY TOKYO.
UNIKORN focuses on challengers bringing technologies and ideas originating from academic research. Through hands-on support from mentors in Japan and abroad, the program provides an environment in which teams can grow while pursuing business development in the UK and across Europe. LINK-BioBAY TOKYO, meanwhile, collaborates with BioLabs, a globally experienced incubator, to build an international support platform that enables Japanese startups to access global markets. By creating opportunities for collaboration with overseas investors and companies, this initiative has been recognized as a “gateway to the world” for Japanese innovators. Together, these two programs support challengers from their earliest stages through global expansion, forming a foundation for the next generation of life science innovation.
Trend Dissemination
Beyond activating communities, LINK-J has also placed strong emphasis on connecting knowledge from across the life sciences—both in Japan and globally—and sharing insights that point toward the future.
A premier example is the LINK-J Conference – R&D × Investment –, which has attracted significant attention through its 2024 and 2025 editions. The conference brings researchers and investors together to engage in cross-disciplinary dialogue on the cutting edge of R&D and evolving investment trends.
At the same time, member-contributed content on the LINK-J website has continued to grow year by year, transforming the platform into a place where diverse experts actively share their perspectives.
As the LINK-J network expands, a wide range of information—research topics, event updates, and industry news—is delivered to the community.
Through these multi-layered information-sharing efforts, LINK-J has strengthened its presence as a hub for life science information in Japan, supporting broad-based activities and encouraging the creation of new collaborations across the ecosystem.
Total Event
Participants
Special
Membership
Special
Membership
A diverse community spanning multiple sectors
A diverse community
spanning multiple sectors
Event & Program Track Record
over 10 years
over 10 years
Email Communications
Approximately
informational
emails per year
Website Activity Total Articles Published
Website Activity
Total Articles Published
Peak Monthly
Page Views
Peak Monthly Page Views
PV183,000
Areas
Tokyo：Nihonbashi, Yaesu, Shinkiba, Kasai／Chiba：Kashiwanoha
Kanagawa：Tonomachi／Osaka：Honmachi, Nakanoshima
Overseas：New York, UC San Diego, Boston
Tokyo：Nihonbashi, Yaesu, Shinkiba, Kasai
Chiba：Kashiwanoha
Kanagawa：Tonomachi
Osaka：Honmachi, Nakanoshima
Overseas：New York, UC San Diego,
Boston
Figures represent data from March 2016 to March 2026.
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