Tamiya Home Wins WSJ's "Next Era Sustainable Community Award" – Circular Management Gains International Recognition
Real estate and construction company Tamiya Home Co., Ltd. announced that it has received the "Next Era Sustainable Community Award" at the "Next Era Leaders AWARD 2026" hosted by The Wall Street Journal. The award recognizes Tamiya Home's innovative circular management model, which goes beyond vacant house regeneration to reconstruct sustainable communities, earning international acclaim for its value.
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Real estate and construction company Tamiya Home Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, Representative Director and President: Akihiko Tamiya, hereinafter "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has received the "Next Era Sustainable Community Award" at the "Next Era Leaders AWARD 2026," which honors next-generation Japanese leaders, within the international event "The Future of Everything Festival 2026" hosted by the US economic newspaper The Wall Street Journal (hereinafter, WSJ).
On Monday, May 4, 2026, Akihiko Tamiya, Representative Director and President of Tamiya Home Co., Ltd., took the stage at the awards ceremony held at "The Glasshouse" in New York, USA.
The WSJ highly praised "circular management that simultaneously promotes destruction and creation." It was recognized internationally as a valuable solution for reconstructing sustainable communities, going beyond the mere framework of vacant house regeneration business.
This award, bearing the concept of "Sustainable Community" which is not in existing categories, was bestowed as a new title symbolizing Tamiya Home's journey.
Scene from the awards ceremony at "The Future of Everything" hosted by WSJ (Fourth from right: Akihiko Tamiya, Representative Director and President of Tamiya Home Co., Ltd.)
1. "The Future of Everything Festival 2026" where global intellects gather
This event is the largest conference in America hosted by the WSJ, discussing the future of technology, business, and culture. In 2026, it was held at "The Glasshouse," a state-of-the-art venue overlooking Manhattan in New York.
At the venue, exhibitions by emerging companies mainly from the US were held, and prominent leaders transforming the world took the stage as guest speakers. In an enthusiastic atmosphere, our representative, Tamiya, attended the awards ceremony. In his speech, he introduced the "circular management" model uniquely developed to solve Japan's serious vacant house problem. He spoke about the belief at its core: "Destruction is the beginning of creating new value."
■ Event Outline
Event Name: "Next Era Leaders AWARD 2026" within The Future of Everything Festival 2026
Host: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
Date and Time: Monday, May 4, 2026, 13:00-14:30 (local time)
Location: The Glasshouse (New York City)
660 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Award Name: Next Era Sustainable Community Award
Overview: "The Future of Everything Festival" is a flagship event hosted by the WSJ, where leaders driving global business, technology, and culture gather to share ideas that shape the future.
Its special project, "Next Era Leaders," focuses on executives with high economic impact in the Asian and Japanese markets. Awards are given to companies that the WSJ evaluates as next-generation leaders, based on US and global economic standards.
Scene from the awards venue
2. Reason for Award
Upon receiving this award, we received the following official comment from the WSJ (The Wall Street Journal).
"Under the vision of 'playing a rainbow,' we have built an innovative organization that values hospitality in a new way of demolition, combining vacant house issues and support for athletes' second careers.
Furthermore, we highly evaluate their leadership in transforming from a 'destroying industry to a nurturing industry' through forest conservation, leading the realization of a circular society."
The WSJ, in analyzing innovations worldwide, particularly highly praised the following three points of Tamiya Home as "guidelines for the next-generation sustainable society."
"Equivalence of destruction and creation": Uniqueness of circular management
A management philosophy that overturns the conventional "scrap and build (consumption-oriented)" concept in the construction industry, treating demolition as completely synonymous with the "creation" of new value. Their practice of recycling waste materials and transforming from a "destroying industry to a nurturing industry" was recognized as a pioneering example of the circular economy.
Creation of social value based on "altruistic spirit": People's resurgence and connections
Beyond the framework of vacant house regeneration business, they combine support for athletes' second careers and the forest conservation project "Tamiya Forest Sym
On Monday, May 4, 2026, Akihiko Tamiya, Representative Director and President of Tamiya Home Co., Ltd., took the stage at the awards ceremony held at "The Glasshouse" in New York, USA.
The WSJ highly praised "circular management that simultaneously promotes destruction and creation." It was recognized internationally as a valuable solution for reconstructing sustainable communities, going beyond the mere framework of vacant house regeneration business.
This award, bearing the concept of "Sustainable Community" which is not in existing categories, was bestowed as a new title symbolizing Tamiya Home's journey.
Scene from the awards ceremony at "The Future of Everything" hosted by WSJ (Fourth from right: Akihiko Tamiya, Representative Director and President of Tamiya Home Co., Ltd.)
1. "The Future of Everything Festival 2026" where global intellects gather
This event is the largest conference in America hosted by the WSJ, discussing the future of technology, business, and culture. In 2026, it was held at "The Glasshouse," a state-of-the-art venue overlooking Manhattan in New York.
At the venue, exhibitions by emerging companies mainly from the US were held, and prominent leaders transforming the world took the stage as guest speakers. In an enthusiastic atmosphere, our representative, Tamiya, attended the awards ceremony. In his speech, he introduced the "circular management" model uniquely developed to solve Japan's serious vacant house problem. He spoke about the belief at its core: "Destruction is the beginning of creating new value."
■ Event Outline
Event Name: "Next Era Leaders AWARD 2026" within The Future of Everything Festival 2026
Host: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
Date and Time: Monday, May 4, 2026, 13:00-14:30 (local time)
Location: The Glasshouse (New York City)
660 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Award Name: Next Era Sustainable Community Award
Overview: "The Future of Everything Festival" is a flagship event hosted by the WSJ, where leaders driving global business, technology, and culture gather to share ideas that shape the future.
Its special project, "Next Era Leaders," focuses on executives with high economic impact in the Asian and Japanese markets. Awards are given to companies that the WSJ evaluates as next-generation leaders, based on US and global economic standards.
Scene from the awards venue
2. Reason for Award
Upon receiving this award, we received the following official comment from the WSJ (The Wall Street Journal).
"Under the vision of 'playing a rainbow,' we have built an innovative organization that values hospitality in a new way of demolition, combining vacant house issues and support for athletes' second careers.
Furthermore, we highly evaluate their leadership in transforming from a 'destroying industry to a nurturing industry' through forest conservation, leading the realization of a circular society."
The WSJ, in analyzing innovations worldwide, particularly highly praised the following three points of Tamiya Home as "guidelines for the next-generation sustainable society."
"Equivalence of destruction and creation": Uniqueness of circular management
A management philosophy that overturns the conventional "scrap and build (consumption-oriented)" concept in the construction industry, treating demolition as completely synonymous with the "creation" of new value. Their practice of recycling waste materials and transforming from a "destroying industry to a nurturing industry" was recognized as a pioneering example of the circular economy.
Creation of social value based on "altruistic spirit": People's resurgence and connections
Beyond the framework of vacant house regeneration business, they combine support for athletes' second careers and the forest conservation project "Tamiya Forest Sym