THE PURPOSE, Featuring Answers from 30 Founders Including Our CEO Imamura, Published on 6 January 2023
We are pleased to announce that THE PURPOSE: What We Exist For and the Value We Provide, co-authored by our Representative Director Imamura, went on sale on Amazon.co.jp on 6 January 2023.

Details
Planned by Listeners Inc., the book is a collection of answers from founders at the front line of their markets, taking purpose to mean the conviction and ambition behind running a company, including mission, vision and values, how a company relates to society, and the value it offers the world.
It opens with a special interview with Takumi Bando, CEO of MORIYA Inc., who works as a founder, actor and artist, followed by founders at the front line of business setting out what their companies exist for.
Contents
It covers how we arrived at our purpose, widening choices to enrich lives.
In the interview we describe wanting to build, through digital marketing, a society in which both our clients and our own people have choices.
Drawing on our CEO Imamura’s own path, we set out in writing what the company exists for, for our clients and our people today.
About the book
Title: THE PURPOSE: What We Exist For and the Value We Provide
Author: Listeners Inc.
Address: LISTEN Base, 2-14-17 Nishiochiai, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Publisher: Listeners Inc.
On sale: 6 January 2023 (pre-orders from 21 December 2022)
Price: 1,800 yen plus tax
URL:https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4908963169
About the author
Company: Listeners Inc.
Representative: Mitsuya Kakihata, Representative Director and CEO
Established: 21 June 2001
Business: Running LISTEN, a media platform connecting people and companies through stories, and publishing and selling books, magazines and web media
URL:https://listeners.co.jp/
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