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As the core business of the Forest Group, ASTEM, Inc. offers medical products, including ethical drugs, medical devices, medical supplies, and diagnostic reagents, as well as information systems and services.

”Purpose-driven management” has been attracting attention at home and abroad in recent years. Employees are highly motivated when they have clear sense of why the company exists and how their work is relevant to social issues. Our management philosophy, striving to “solve people’s health-related ‘problems’” stated in our Articles of Incorporation is our “Purpose.” Instilled with a mission to provide vaccines, testing equipment, and therapeutic drugs during the coronavirus pandemic, I have personally reaffirmed that our work is a “social business.”

The surge of technologies known as “Health Tech” and “DX” have emerged and changed the field of healthcare and these changes have evolved at an amazing speed. We acquire knowledge on the ever-changing latest disease treatments, medical business managements and systemic administrations, act as a mediator among medical professionals, including medical associations and pharmacist associations, providers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic drugs, local governments and insurers, as well as lead the field toward the future of ideal community medicine. This is the “purpose-driven management” that we aim for.

To that end, we actively promote open innovation with other industries and academia, collaborate with startups, and increase stakeholders in local governments and insurers. We also expand the range of our work and bring a new perspective with the aim of providing “desired medical care” demanded by the community.

“Think locally, Act globally”-ASTEM continues “creation and innovation” today and tomorrow to activate local communities and Japan from the field.

Tsuguo Yoshimura, President

*Comprehensive medical wholesaler:

A company that not only delivers products to medical institutions and pharmacies, but also proposes a broad range of medical information and therapeutic procedures.