Adopting “Sayari Graph” — a Trade Transaction and Corporate Ownership Risk Detection Solution Advancing Company-Wide Risk Management Through the Use of Intelligence
Sayari Japan Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hirokazu Kusaba; hereinafter “Sayari”; Parent company: Sayari Labs, Inc., Washington D.C., USA) — a company that leverages trade and corporate network data to visualize global trade regulation risks and support compliance — announces that Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & Representative Director: Shigeyuki Kawamura; hereinafter “Nippon Kayaku”) has adopted “Sayari Graph,” Sayari’s solution enabling investigation, screening, and monitoring of corporate ownership relationships, trade transaction relationships, and sanctions/export control risks.
Nippon Kayaku will use this intelligence to improve the efficiency of supply chain risk investigations and strengthen its integrated risk management framework.
Background: Growing Need to Manage Trade-Related Risks Hidden in Supply Chains
As global instability increases, countries are frequently updating export controls, sanctions-related rules, and entity lists from an economic security perspective. As a result, companies engaged in international trade are facing the need for urgent risk management responses.
One notable example: in September 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) began enforcing the “Affiliates Rule (BIS 50% Rule),” which extends trade restrictions not only to companies already on the Entity List or Military End-User List, but also to companies in which those listed entities hold 50% or more ownership. This new rule has created an additional need for risk detection measures when handling items subject to U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Although the rule’s application was subsequently suspended for one year starting November 10, 2025, due to changes in the international political landscape, many companies with affected transactions continue preparing countermeasures given the possibility of sudden reinstatement.
In order to avoid having sanctioned entities within their supply chains and to maintain trade compliance while sustaining stable business operations, companies are now required to develop the ability to respond immediately to sudden changes in the international environment.
How Nippon Kayaku Is Strengthening Its Framework Through Sayari Graph — Promoting Efficiency and Integrated Risk Management
In an ever-changing regulatory environment, Nippon Kayaku has adopted “Sayari Graph” — Sayari’s solution for investigating, screening, and monitoring corporate ownership relationships, trade transaction relationships, and sanctions/export control risks — in order to efficiently advance trade compliance and build transparent global business relationships.
The motivation behind Nippon Kayaku’s adoption is to strengthen its ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) framework and to improve the precision and efficiency of risk investigation and monitoring.
With economic security-related risk categories growing increasingly diverse — including supply chain risks — multiple risk response departments within companies are now involved. At the same time, integrated risk management is required to enhance corporate value. Furthermore, as trade regulations change and expand, the time that risk management departments at internationally active companies must dedicate to identifying and analyzing risks continues to grow. Companies with globally extended supply chains face the challenge of improving efficiency while being required to refine their risk investigations and monitoring. Nippon Kayaku has adopted “Sayari Graph” as a specialized intelligence solution to address these challenges.
Comment from Nippon Kayaku President & Representative Director, Shigeyuki Kawamura
We place great importance on trade compliance and have been evaluating solutions capable of conducting precise risk investigations and monitoring. Conducting thorough compliance risk investigations on our business partners has been extremely time-consuming, and as additional new rules from various countries are anticipated going forward, implementing efficient investigations and monitoring has been an ongoing challenge.
Furthermore, given the current global situation, we feel a growing need to implement even more centralized risk management in our economic security-related risk management, with an emphasis on the ERM approach.
“Sayari Graph” enables us to respond quickly to impactful new regulations such as the BIS 50% Rule, and offers superior visibility across the entire supply chain by linking the latest corporate and trade data. This has opened a new path for information gathering and analysis that we previously struggled to conduct on our own.
“Sayari Graph” is also a solution that can be used across risk response departments, making it possible to share risk awareness throughout the organization and build a framework that drives integrated strategy development and execution.
Going forward, we aim to enhance corporate value through integrated risk management and will actively utilize intelligence. We look forward to the further evolution of Sayari’s solutions, which will be a key enabler of that effort.
Comment from Sayari Japan Representative Director, Hirokazu Kusaba
In the volatile international environment, Nippon Kayaku — a company providing products relevant to a wide range of industries — is facing a moment that demands unprecedented caution in verifying business partners.
We are confident that the extensive corporate, trade, and risk data and analytical capabilities provided by “Sayari Graph” will contribute to swift decision-making in response to increasingly complex regulations. We are truly honored to be able to strengthen Nippon Kayaku’s risk management foundation and contribute to the realization of sustainable business transactions.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Advancing Corporate Economic Security Measures
In November 2025, METI published a draft guideline for business leaders on economic security: the “Economic Security Management Guideline (Draft).”1 The guideline positions economic security responses as “necessary investment, not a cost,” calls on company management to identify risks such as supply chain disruptions and technology leakage, and consolidates specific response items into a checklist.
In the expert panel examining this guideline — the “Expert Meeting for Strengthening Industrial and Technology Foundations Related to Economic Security” — it was noted that the guideline’s existence will make it easier for companies to advance supply chain measures, and that these measures are expected to spread to mid-sized and small companies regardless of scale.
The panel also noted the urgent need to strengthen economic intelligence that can be shared between the public and private sectors in order to make real-time decisions in response to changes in the international situation, emphasizing the growing importance of intelligence in economic security measures.2
Key Features of Sayari’s Services
Sayari holds over 10 billion records and relationship data on companies, ownership structures, trade, individuals, and risks, independently collected from more than 250 countries and territories. It develops and provides intelligence solutions that quickly deliver superior insights for export control, supply chain risk, economic security, and financial crime measures.
Sayari’s data is widely used by regulatory authorities including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and has been adopted by many global companies for export control and supply chain risk management.
Sayari will continue to swiftly reflect changes in the international situation and accompanying regulatory environment into its solutions, contributing to the development of frameworks that enable highly sophisticated trade compliance and export control risk detection tailored to each company’s business environment.
About Sayari
Sayari was founded in 2015 in Washington, D.C. It provides solutions that visualize networks of inter-company transactions and equity ownership structures, supporting diverse risk analyses including economic security. Based on a proprietary database of over 10 billion corporate and trade records, Sayari contributes to transparent risk management and has been adopted by government agencies and multinational corporations around the world. The company has received the “Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Top Tech Start-Up Award” for software and technology startups in the supply chain and logistics sector, and has been selected for the “Deloitte Technology Fast 500” — which identifies the most innovative and fast-growing companies in North America — for four consecutive years, establishing itself as one of America’s rapidly growing technology companies.
In 2025, Sayari established a Japanese subsidiary and has formally begun supporting Japanese companies as a partner in risk analysis.
1 November 20, 2025, METI Economic Security Management Guideline:https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/economic_security/08-05.pdf
2 November 20, 2025, Summary of the 8th Expert Meeting for Strengthening Industrial and Technology Foundations Related to Economic Security:https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/economic_security/08-06.pdf
