Forval Corporation, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo and led by President and Representative Director Masanori Nakajima, announced the full-scale launch of the Kurito Ippei Wide-Area Co-Creation Project. Starting from Ichinoseki City in Iwate Prefecture, the project will cover a broader area including Kurihara City and Tome City in Miyagi Prefecture, as well as Hiraizumi Town in Iwate Prefecture. It is positioned as an implementation model for Forval’s regional revitalization strategy, the F-Japan Initiative. The project aims to build a new regional revitalization model by integrating visualization of local company data, hands-on business support, and the creation of human resource circulation through industry-government-academia-finance collaboration. Forval plans to develop it as a horizontally deployable model under the F-Japan Initiative. “Kurito Ippei” refers to a wide-area co-creation zone that treats Kurihara City and Tome City in northern Miyagi Prefecture, together with Ichinoseki City and Hiraizumi Town in southern Iwate Prefecture, as one integrated regional bloc. Through collaboration among industry, government, academia, and financial institutions, the area aims to address shared challenges such as population decline, labor shortages, and delayed digital transformation. The four municipalities in northern Miyagi and southern Iwate have many small and medium-sized enterprises supporting the local economy, but they also face common and complex issues including population decline, labor shortages, business succession problems, and delays in DX. These challenges are difficult to solve through support for individual companies or by single institutions alone, making it necessary to create a mechanism that allows support to circulate sustainably across the entire region. Forval has worked with Ichinoseki Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Next IWATE on a locally rooted preliminary implementation called the Ichinoseki Model, while communicating with relevant m