Making global services a new growth pillar

「While steadily winning new projects in the priority translation and LQA businesses, global and other revenue rose substantially to approximately 1.4 times the previous fiscal year’s level, thanks to the contribution from HUWIZ SOLUTIONS INC., a North American company that became a subsidiary in the previous fiscal year.」

「Translation and LQA expanded through the full-scale rollout of solutions using the proprietary game-focused AI translation engine “ella,” while new projects in game development support remained at a high level, and HUWIZ SOLUTIONS INC., which became a consolidated subsidiary in November 2025, also contributed to results.」

「To achieve further growth in the global business, the company actively advanced initiatives to strengthen and expand global solutions and broaden its overseas customer base. These included preparing to establish a subsidiary in Thailand focused on localization as its core business and strengthening promotional activities for overseas clients through Group-wide efforts.」

「Specifically, the company aims to expand its share of the global market by strengthening solutions that draw on its distinctive strengths and expertise, including establishing a system for providing overseas game developers with multilingual debugging to “Japanese quality” standards, and expanding the language coverage of its proprietary game-focused AI translation engine, “ella,” which specializes in translations that preserve a game’s world-building and character identity.」

「During the interim consolidated accounting period, the DH Group business won new projects in translation and LQA, particularly in European and North American languages, where efforts had been strengthened since the previous fiscal year, as well as large-scale marketing support projects. As a result, revenue from global and other services, positioned as growth drivers, increased by double digits.」

「Meanwhile, in global and other services, amid continued uncertainty over the outlook for China's games market, the company moved in earnest to expand its business in Europe and the United States, including by entering into a strategic business alliance agreement with Spain-based game localization company Localsoft, S.L. It also began jointly developing an AI translation engine for entertainment content with 株式会社ロゼッタ, which has strengths in automated AI translation, and resolved to establish a debugging joint venture in India with JetSynthesys Private Limited, pursuing new initiatives for further growth.」

「Although the outlook for the Chinese game market remained partly uncertain, the company steadily won new projects in game translation and LQA by strengthening Group collaboration. It also entered into a strategic business alliance with Localsoft, S.L., a Spanish game localization company, strengthening services in global markets including Europe and the Middle East. In addition, it advanced initiatives to expand its business in new markets and fields, including launching joint development of an AI translation engine for entertainment content with 株式会社ロゼッタ, which specializes in AI-powered machine translation.」

「Meanwhile, in the global and other services businesses, while uncertainty remains over the outlook for the Chinese game market, the Company steadily won new projects, including game translation and LQA, by strengthening group collaboration.」

「As simultaneous worldwide game launches become mainstream, we will strengthen our capabilities in game translation and LQA, marketing support, voice recording and other areas, and work to expand our global business with a view not only to the Asian markets in which we have strengths, but also to the European and North American markets.」

「Meanwhile, in the global and other services businesses, as the outlook for the Asian game market, including China, became increasingly uncertain because of the spread of COVID-19 and other factors, the Group steadily acquired new projects for game translation and LQA by strengthening collaboration across the Group.」

「In global and other services, although the business was partly affected by the lockdown in Shanghai, the company strengthened Group collaboration and successfully captured growing demand for translation, LQA and marketing support resulting from the increasingly active overseas rollout of content. In addition, the company entered into a capital and business alliance with GameWith and advanced initiatives for further growth, including expanding its services and providing new value.」

「In global and other services, the company captured growing demand for translation, LQA and marketing support as the overseas rollout of content became more active, while the impact of M&A also contributed to a substantial increase in revenue.」

「As a result, revenue from global and other services for the fiscal year was ¥5,563.771 million, up 35.3% year on year, partly reflecting the impact of M&A.」

「In global services in particular, the global rollout of content by overseas game developers, including those in China, has become increasingly active. The company worked with DIGITAL HEARTS CROSS, which became a subsidiary in March 2021, and sought to win new projects by strengthening one-stop service delivery, from translation and LQA through marketing support. As a result, revenue from global and other services for the nine months ended 31 December 2021 was ¥4,196.932 million, up 37.3% year on year, partly reflecting the impact of M&A.」

「The Group has also been strengthening collaboration to realize synergies early with DIGITAL HEARTS CROSS Marketing and Solutions Limited (formerly Metaps Entertainment Limited), which was made a subsidiary through an M&A transaction and is positioned within global services as a new growth pillar. In global services in particular, results from DIGITAL HEARTS CROSS Marketing and Solutions Limited (formerly Metaps Entertainment Limited), which became a consolidated subsidiary in March 2021, began to be consolidated from the second quarter, while the Group began sharing its customer base and pursuing other forms of collaboration. As a result, the number of new projects across global services increased.」

「In our core Entertainment business, we are working to establish operational excellence in domestic debugging services while focusing on expanding global services as a new pillar of growth.」