The criteria are as follows:

Innovation:
We want to know how your nominated company or representative is re-setting the agenda.

Impact:
What is the size and scope of your nominee’s project(s)? What difference are they making? What growth? What strategy?

Sophistication:
Even the simplest ideas involve intricate systems and lateral thinking to execute successfully. We want to know what level of sophistication was involved in making your nominee successful whether it be related to technology, management, IR, or any other dimension.

International Awards

Business Woman of the Year
This award is for a female professional, either an employee or entrepreneur who has exhibited an outstanding level of business acumen, operational competence as well as generating remarkable revenue.

Keywords: Operational Achievement, Strategic Thinking, Revenue Generation

Business Man of the Year
This award is for a male professional, either an employee or entrepreneur who has exhibited an outstanding level of business acumen, operational competence as well as generating remarkable revenue.

Keywords: Operational Achievement, Strategic Thinking, Revenue Generation

Entrepreneur of the Year
This aims to reward a business person who has staked their own capital in the pursuit of a commercial project with remarkable success.

Keywords: Originality, Scope, Leadership

Innovative Enterprise of the Year
This award is to be made to a company or individual who has developed a highly innovative commercial product.

Keywords: Novelty of Invention, Technological Dynamism, Commercial Success

Fastest Growing Small Company
This award aims to recognize the growth achievement of a company with under 100 employees in total. To be presented to representative(s) of the company.

Keywords: Sales Revenue, Assets, Personnel

Corporate Social Responsibility Special Award
This award aims to recognize any outstanding CSR activities performed by international companies working in the Japanese market.

Keywords: Scope of the Project, Originality, Commitment

Japanese Awards

Best Services Vendor to the Foreign Community
This award aims to recognize a domestic services provider who foreign companies working here have found particularly useful and of a high standard.

Keywords: Utility of Service, Quality of Service, Size

Notable Contributor to International Relations
This award recognizes the efforts of a Japanese individual, corporation of other institution in facilitating interaction between the Japanese and global economies.

Keywords: Scope of Contribution, Sustainability, Commitment