[April Dream] Expatriate Wives Abroad Become Immediate Assets for Japanese Companies: Creating a "Market for Expatriate Wife Talent" for a Society Where Women Can Work Anytime, Anywhere

This press release is an April Dream, a dream announced by a business that resonates with the April Dream project and aims to make April 1st a day full of dreams, to be realized in the future.

Creating a market for expatriate wife talent.

Chuzuma Career net Inc. (Headquarters: Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture; Representative Director: Azusa Miura) today declares its dream of "creating a market for expatriate wife talent." The world we aim for is "the realization of a society where women can work anytime, anywhere they want to."

Our company supports April Dream, a project to make April 1st a day for announcing dreams. This press release is the dream of "Chuzuma Career net Inc."

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■ Background of the Dream

"My husband received an overseas transfer order."

What do wives feel the moment they hear those words?

"I just got promoted," "I'm in the middle of a project," "What will happen to my career?"

According to a survey by Chuzuma Career Research Institute, 51% experienced resignation without a re-employment system, and only 8% were able to work while accompanying their spouse. 45% of women reluctantly quit despite not wanting to.

In fact, the expatriate wives affiliated with Chuzuma Career net are high-career professionals who have built their careers at leading Japanese companies and institutions such as Boston Consulting, Goldman Sachs, Mitsubishi Corporation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

■ High-career expatriate wives possess unique value.

■ Our Initiatives

【Service】① Contract work matching for 40-60 hours per month

These are "hidden high-career talents" who have built careers at major companies and in specialized professions. They are now seeking opportunities to utilize their careers and expertise, possessing real-time market information from various parts of the world.

Our company provides matching services that connect these talents with companies in the form of contract work for 40-60 hours per month. This is not full-time employment, but rather collaboration with high-career professionals who are seriously committed to their work as a main occupation, not just a side job for spare time, providing only the necessary expertise for the required amount of time.

【Service】② Overseas market research and overseas expansion support

Expatriate wives living in 53 countries possess real-time information as local residents and consumers, directly relevant to companies' overseas expansion.

"Will this product sell locally?" "Which country should we expand into first?"—High-career expatriate wives residing locally answer these questions through taste tests, interviews, and market research. Utilize the market sense derived from a business perspective combined with a consumer's viewpoint, which cannot be grasped through business trips alone, for your company's overseas strategy.

【Achievement】NewsPick for WE "WE CHANGE AWARDS 2026 Corporate Division Encouragement Award"

On March 6, 2026, Chuzuma Career net received the "WE CHANGE AWARDS 2026 Corporate Division Encouragement Award." The award recognized the establishment of a global network of 1,047 members in 53 countries, the realization of transactions with 53 companies, and raising awareness in society about career challenges faced by accompanying spouses on overseas assignments.

Comment from Representative Director Azusa Miura

"The transformation of the social structure surrounding the careers of expatriate wives is still halfway there. We will continue to promote more effective initiatives towards realizing a society where 'choosing to be an expatriate wife' becomes an 'expectation for career advancement' rather than 'anxiety about career interruption.'"

【Achievement②】Featured in Nikkei MJ—The hypothesis that expatriate wives' knowledge can become business becomes reality

On March 27, 2026, Nikkei MJ's "Natsuko Nakamura's Consumer Insights" column featured Chuzuma Career net's initiatives and a survey on demand for Japanese products targeting members in 53 countries and regions. This led to real-world examples: urgent needs for Japanese products difficult to obtain overseas, examples of Japanese products popular among foreigners, and a case where the survey was utilized to decide the feasibility of overseas expansion for 'okaki' (rice crackers). As a result of taste tests and interviews conducted by members in 12 countries and regions, the company received feedback stating, "Now is not the time to expand. The value was being able to decide to stop." High-career expatriate wives residing locally support the decision of whether or not to expand.

■ What we want to achieve in the future (April Dream)

A society where accompanying a husband on an overseas assignment is seen as an "opportunity." A society where companies welcome returning women as "immediate global assets." A society where the expatriate wife market has become a new infrastructure saving Japan from talent shortages.

And a society where "women can work anytime, anywhere they want" is commonplace.

That is our April Dream.

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About Chuzuma Career net Inc.

With the vision of "realizing a society where women can work anytime, anywhere they want," we develop businesses that support the career continuation and growth of spouses (expatriate wives) accompanying overseas assignments.

Company Name: Chuzuma Career net Inc.

Representative Director: Azusa Miura

Location: Tochigi Prefectural Industrial Hall 3F, 3-1-4 Chuo, Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture (within Utsunomiya Ventures)

URL: https://chuzuma-career.net

Established: April 2025

Number of members: 1,047 from 53 countries worldwide

To companies interested in utilizing high-career professionals for contract work or overseas market research:

Inquiries and service details here: info@chuzuma-career.jp