Clarity
Make Japan-facing institutional expectations and information requirements easier to understand.
About PMIJ
PMIJ · TokyoA Japan-based institute, led by practitioners.
PMIJ develops the shared standards, research and infrastructure Japan's private markets have never had.
Institutional premise
Built by practitioners with direct institutional experience.
PMIJ is founded and led by practitioners. Its President has spent over 20 years in manager evaluation and selection, including as a gatekeeper managing director and head of private equity at a Japanese trust bank.
PMIJ brings together Japanese institutional allocators, global private-markets managers, advisors and gatekeepers, and specialist contributors. We do not replace their roles. We build the common ground they meet on.
Institutional mandate
Better information, clearer roles and durable dialogue.
Preparation
Help managers and their partners organise information before formal institutional review begins.
Independence
Preserve the separate responsibilities of managers, allocators, advisors and specialist contributors.
PMIJ does not direct investment outcomes.
Its role is to strengthen the quality and consistency of the starting point from which independent review takes place.
Operating principles
Institutional discipline before promotion.
Long-term market practice
Develop reference points that remain useful across cycles, mandates and institution-specific processes.
Intellectual rigour
Separate verified information, practitioner judgement and open questions in every framework and publication.
Transparent status
Publish roles, programmes, contributors and materials only when their status has been formally confirmed.
Independent judgement
Preserve the responsibility of institutions and their advisors for diligence, analysis and investment decisions.
Leadership
Leadership, founding members and board advisors.
Only formally confirmed roles and responsibilities are published. Additional founding members and board advisors will be added as appointments are confirmed.
President · Founding Member
Takahiro Kawanishi
- Experience
- 20+ years in private markets
- Former senior roles
- Gatekeeper Managing Director · Head of Private Equity, Japanese trust bank
- Institutional focus
- Manager evaluation · Selection · Governance
More than 20 years of private-markets experience spanning manager evaluation, selection and institutional governance, including senior roles as a gatekeeper managing director and head of private equity at a Japanese trust bank. At PMIJ, he leads framework development and dialogue between Japanese allocators and global managers.