Hitowa is a leading, diversified living support service provider in Japan. Hitowa’s two main operations are a nursing home business and a housecleaning franchise business, and also includes a nursery business and a food service business. Hitowa is a market leader in each of its four sectors, well-positioned to benefit from the current Japanese socioeconomic trends of the aging population, the rise in women’s participation in the workforce and the increasing number of salaried workers becoming self-employed.