Vision

Live Your Life

We are committed to helping people live their lives in the way that they choose.

What kind of life is “our own life”? Workstyles and lifestyles are different from each other. As time goes on, or as social surroundings change, people’s minds also gradually change. Through these changes, we continue to do our best to help people live and work to achieve what they pursue. We encourage each and every person who tries to realize their goals in life.

Purpose

By assisting more people in living the lives they choose, we will help society become full of hope.

Not for anybody else, not for the benefit of society, but for yourself. Sticking to your belief will not be a risk, but a hope. By supporting people who intend to live their lives in a way that they choose, we will contribute to make society filled with hope.

Value

Make yourself involved

Leaving things to others or letting yourself drift with the societal flow are not our values. We will make ourselves involved and appeal to others within and outside the company on our own initiative in order to make our vision “Live Your Life” happen in reality.

Action Guidelines

Wish

Speak up and discuss together how you feel and the ideas that you have.

Action

Act first before problems are able to develop.

Respect

Pursue better relationships by recognizing and accepting people’s diverse values and ways of thinking.

Involvement

Instead of working by yourself and undertaking projects alone, work cooperatively to take your work as far as possible.

Speed

Work with more speed and freedom. Make an effort to carry things out as fast as possible.

Our services

Waris Professional

“Waris Professional” is a matching service between female freelancers and companies.
Currently, nearly 21,000 women partner with Waris Professional. They have professional skill-sets such as PR, marketing, HR, finance, and many more. We connect their skill-sets with companies that need those skills through a supportive environment and a flexible work schedule.

Waris Leaders Career

“Waris Leaders Career” is a service that introduces high-skilled women who are highly motivated to grow, to companies seeking to optimize the gender balance in management positions. We introduce women with management experience or who wish to be in a management position that ensure diversity and drive business growth.

Waris Executive

“Waris Executive” is a service that introduces the most suitable female candidate to companies that are considering appointing female executives (directors, outside directors, corporate auditors, CxOs, and executive officers) from the perspective of achieving human capital management, promoting women’s empowerment activities, and diversifying the decision-making layers of management.

Waris Reskilling

“Waris Reskilling”(Formerly Waris Career Shift Platform) supports the reskilling of individuals by providing well-developed programs that support them from relearning to employment. In addition, it supports companies’ recruitment and human resource development by matching people with reskilling experience.

Short Biography of CEO’s

* Joint representation

Fumika Yonekura

Co-CEO

A nationally qualified Career Consultant. Born in 1975. Bachelor of Bachelor of Faculty of Policy Management [B.A.(Policy Management)], Keio University, Tokyo (1999). Yonekura first joined Japan Bank for International Cooperation and engaged in foreign direct investment research. After working for Boston Consulting Group as a researcher of the healthcare industry; including medical and pharmaceutical business, she joined Recruit Co., Ltd. and engaged in launching new business in healthcare industry and planning business in bridal industry. She resigned her post at Recruit Co., Ltd in the hope of getting more involved in female career support by using GCDF-Japan (Japan), a carrier consultant qualification authorized by CCE Inc. that she acquired in 2011. In 2013, Yonekura started Waris Co.Ltd with Miwa Tanaka and Kyoko Kawa. Yonekura has been located in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam since February 2019.

Miwa Tanaka

Co-CEO

A nationally qualified Career Consultant. Born in 1978. Bachelor of Faculty of Law, Department of Politics, Keio University, Tokyo. Tanaka joined Nikkei BP in 2001, and was in charge of the magazine for women in the workforce, “Nikkei Women”, as an editor and a journalist. Tanaka has interviewed and conducted research on more than 30,000 women in the workforce. Tanaka resigned her post at Nikkei BP in 2012 in order to focus more on helping women live in a way that suited them. To this day, she continues to work positively. After working as a freelance writer and career counselor, she established Waris Co.Ltd in 2013 with two other CEO’s, Fumika Yonekura and Kyoko Kawa. Tanaka is an author of “Ordinary Employees Earn money as a Freelancer” and is also a director of a general incorporated organization: The Professional and Parallel Career Freelance Association. She has a serial publication: ”Career Design of The 100-year Life” in a web magazine, mi-mollet, published by Kodansha.

Kyoko Kawa

Co-CEO

Born in 1984. Bachelor of Faculty of Policy Management [B.A.(Policy Management)], Keio University, Tokyo. Kawa joined Recruit Career Co., Ltd in 2007 and became engaged in job matching between the medical industry including foreign owned medical equipment manufacturers and individuals with regard to corporate sales. After Kawa moved to the Sales Planning Division as a new business consultant, she was involved in planning the whole business process and operation, defining personnel requirements, as well as forming a communication plan for recruitment to corporations that carry out mass hiring. From a personnel point of view, Kawa supported her client corporations to expand business. During her career at Recruit, she was involved in the establishment of Waris Co.Ltd on a voluntary basis, and she eventually joined the company as one of Co-CEO’s after she resigned from Recruit in June 2014. Kawa has been located in Fukuoka since April 2016.

Company’s Profile

Company name:
Waris Co., Ltd. *1
Location:

Head Office
Tokyo Office Kanda Kadouchi BLD. 8F, 3-7 Kanda Kaji-cho,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 101-0045

Fukuoka Office
Fukuoka Office 8bit Akasaka 201, 1-11-20 Akasaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi 810-0042

Contact information:
Phone: +81  3-5577-5957 / E-mail: info@waris.co.jp
Representatives (Joint representation):
Co-CEO Fumika Yonekura
Co-CEO Miwa Tanaka
Co-CEO Kyoko Kawa
Foundation:
April 1, 2013
Description of Business:
  • Human resources solutions services
  • Fee-Charging employment placement business *2
  • Planning, holding and operations various seminars and events

*1. “Waris” and “ワリス” are registered trademarks of Waris Co.Ltd that provide recruitment and recruitment-related information.

*2. Registration Number authorized by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 13-ユ306255