Your Marketing Agency in Japan
STAGEBANK, INC.
Background
Japan has been a quite attractive market with high GDP per capita but the localization of promotional activities are essential due to its low English proficiency.
Many of major Japanese advertisement, casting, celebrity / influencer agencies, and influencers themselves are not good at English, which makes it harder for global companies to execute localized promotional activities.
Our Superiority
We are very Local yet with English proficiency
with excellence in marketing, promotion, and casting for Japan market
Market Research
We can conduct market research from competition and consumer stand point, using qualitative and quantitative method.
Content Development
We can localize the existing contents and/or develop localized contents from website, article, key visual, ad creatives both still visual and video.
Media Operation
We can buy and run local ads on your behalf in various touch points - TV, OOH, social media (Meta, Google, X, etc), PR event and others.
Local Strategy
We can build local brand communication and media strategy based on the market knowledge, the brand understanding, your goal and the budget.
Celebrity and KOL Casting
We can find and propose the best local celebrity and KOLs fits your brand and local strategy.
Tracking
We will review the results and propose the revised strategy and plans to maximize your business in Japan.
Our Team
Marketing professionals will support you throughout the process
Marketing Expert
Leo Sugo
He founded Stagebank, originally production company for its flagship fashion show Tokyo Africa Collection, producing the number of fashion shows and event since 2016.
From 2018 to 2022, he had also worked at P&G as brand manager and director. He was mostly stationed in Singapore, where the APAC headquarters is located and worked on the fabric caer brands..
He delivered excellent results including business turnaround of all product he was responsible for, with double digit sales growth.
He graduated from Waseda University and holds master’s degree at London School of Economics.
Digital Ad Expert
Toshiki Noguchi
After graduating from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and the University of Copenhagen, he joined Facebook (now Meta) in Singapore as an account manager in 2019.
Over the five years up to July 2024, he has supported the business growth of over 250 Japanese companies and contributed to deepening the industry ecosystem by specializing in retail, e-commerce and cross-border businesses.
Research Expert
Shogo Kinukawa
He worked for P&G for about eight years as a consumer and market research expert (CMK).
As a manager and director, he led consumer research and analysis for Febreze, Lenor, and Downy in Japan and Korea from Singapore, where the Asian headquarters is located.
He currently works for major U.S. tech comapny as an Insights and Analytics manager responsible for APAC market and also work for Stagebank as an expert in consumer research design and analysis.
KOL Expert
Monami Sasaki
Graduated University of Sheffield. UK-based marketer specialized in digital marketing. Finished an internship at the Japan’s second biggest influencer agency, VAZ Inc.
Since she joined the Myprotein Japan in 2018, she has been recruiting and managing more than 150 influencers and often seen on influencers’ channels as well by keeping great relationships. Directed more than 50 one-off successful YouTube videos, planned and executed influencer events / Popup space.