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Bitcoin for Balance Sheet: Another Japanese Firm Mulls Michael Saylor's BTC Strategy
A Tokyo-listed company is looking to raise funds to buy bitcoin, expanding the trend in Japan of adopting BTC as a corporate treasury asset.
Updated Apr 15, 2025, 5:21 p.m. Published Apr 15, 2025, 4:19 p.m.
What to know:
- Value Creation plans to add 100 million yen (roughly $700,000) in BTC to its balance sheet over the next four months.
- The move would bring the firm’s total holdings to 300 million yen (or about $2.1 million).
- The rather modest accumulation comes amid growing institutional interest in bitcoin across Japan.
Value Creation (9238), a Tokyo-listed logistics and tech firm, expects to add 100 million yen ($700,000) worth of to its balance sheet over the next four months, according to a statement.
This firm had previously purchased about 200 million yen ($1.4 million) worth of bitcoin.
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The funds come from surplus capital earmarked for future investments, the company said.
Value Creation’s move is a tiny one, but isn’t happening in isolation. A trend is taking hold in Japan, where companies—once cautious—are dipping into BTC as a treasury reserve asset. Several firms in the country have adopted BTC, with energy firm Remixpoint, NEXON, and Metaplanet among them. Metaplanet is the largest Japanese corporate holder with 4,525 BTC on its balance sheet.
Disclaimer: The information gathered for this article was translated with the use of artificial intelligence.
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