'The Company Could Have Been Saved' Experts Who Have Seen 3,000 Cases Talk About the Executive's 'Time to Step Down' | 'President's Business Succession', Systematizing Business and Real Estate Succession in One Volume, Released April 10

Hoshino Shobo (Representative: Tomoe Hoshino, https://silas.jp) released 'President's Business Succession' (Authors: Hiroyuki Kiyono: https://www.tsuchiura-souzoku.com & Muneaki Watanabe: https://www.katsurahome.co.jp), which systematizes practical knowledge regarding corporate business succession and real estate succession, at bookstores nationwide on April 10, 2026. This book is a practical bible for business succession and real estate succession for business owners and next-generation landlords. In recent years, the lack of successors and delays in addressing business succession in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become serious. According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / Small and Medium Enterprise Agency's '2023 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises', about half of business owners over the age of 60 have no designated successor. While business owners are aging, an increasing number of them reach the time of succession underprepared, thinking 'I'm still fine' or 'I'll think about it eventually'. Furthermore, in real estate rental management, 'occurrence of inheritance = business succession' is often the case, and inexperienced successors suddenly have to take over management, leading to not a few cases where they choose to 'sell'. This book points out that many of the causes of failure in the succession of general companies and real estate rental businesses lie in 'lack of preparation' and 'lack of visualization'. - The company's strengths are not organized - Information is not shared with the successor - The overall picture of assets is not grasped In this state, succession is left to 'luck', and as a result, the possibility of not being able to protect the company or assets increases. That is precisely why this book stands on the premise that 'succession is determined by advance preparation', and specifically indicates what needs to be organized, to whom and how it should be handed over, and at what timing one should act. Against this background, this book, by a tax accountant specializing in president's assets and a real estate succession consultant who is the second-generation president of a 55-year-old real estate company, is a volume that systematizes 'succession decisions without regret' and 'specific procedures' based on practical knowledge gained from involvement in over 3,000 business succession cases. There are few books that integrally explain general corporate succession and real estate succession, making this a new bible by practitioners that allows readers to re-examine business succession from both management and asset perspectives.