KEIF, Inc. has been founded

01A message from our CEO

I have worked with uniforms for more than 20 years. I believe the time has come for society to rethink how clothes are made. In the EU, systems are being built to record and show the materials and manufacturing of each product as a Digital Product Passport, and the world is moving in that direction.

When I visited Europe in 2023, I saw how fast things were moving, and how far behind Japan was. It left me with a strong sense of urgency.

Before founding KEIF, and out of that urgency, I produced the medical wear brand sukui. Made with the care and precision of Japanese manufacturing, it recorded its materials and processes and made them checkable with a smartphone through a QR code on the garment. It received awards in Japan and abroad, but sukui is a brand for medical wear only.

At KEIF, we will take the system we tested with sukui to other uniforms. Materials from Taiwan, records and finishing in Fukuoka — we connect the record of each garment across countries and companies. We want to update how clothes are made for the times we live in — and if that is good for society, all the better.

Not everything is finished. We will be open about what we have not done yet, while we build a way of making clothes that fits our times, and offer it in a form that can be handed on to future generations.

Shinichi Hasegawa, Representative Director & CEO

02Why we founded KEIF

Uniforms fall under Category 1, "Purchased goods and services", of a company's supply-chain emissions (Scope 3). In Japan, mandatory sustainability disclosure in annual securities reports (under the SSBJ standards) is being phased in from the fiscal year ending March 2027, starting with the largest Prime Market companies. Scope 3 is included, with transitional relief in the first year.

Under the SSBJ standards, companies also disclose the extent to which they used primary data to measure Scope 3. Yet few suppliers can give their customers primary data for each product. KEIF was founded to be a company that can answer "Where was this uniform made?" — with evidence.

03Our purpose

At founding, we set out the core of the company's purpose in our Articles of Incorporation:

"The Company's core public-interest purpose is to leave for future generations an honest record of manufacturing processes in the apparel industry, to ensure supply-chain transparency, and to contribute to the realization of a circular economy." (Articles of Incorporation, Article 3, Paragraph 2. English translation for reference; the Japanese original prevails.)

04What we do

• Uniform planning, manufacturing and sales (ready-made, and made to order for each company)
• Branding that starts with the uniform
• A portal that handles everything from quotes to delivery in one place (stock management will be added step by step)
• Issuing a manufacturing record (DPP) for each product. We record materials, processes and estimated CO₂, and record them on a blockchain (chaintope's Tapyrus), so it can be checked later that nothing has been changed.

05Connecting Japan and Taiwan

A single uniform passes through several countries and companies before it is finished. KEIF takes charge of that journey with a setup that spans borders.

• Taiwan: we select fabrics and develop products with our textile partner
• Sewing: at partner factories
• Fukuoka: KEIF handles planning and is your single point of contact. A partner factory handles embroidery, inspection and repair, and we are building the record infrastructure with chaintope

We work directly with the fabric maker in Taiwan, without a trading company in between, so that we can answer "where, by whom and from what was it made" in our own words.

06What's next

• January 2027: our first product (planned)
• More products are in development
• Extending product records to collection after use

We will share details here as they are decided.

07Company profile

• Company name: 株式会社景譜 (KEIF, Inc.)
• Founded: 25 July 2026
• Representative: Shinichi Hasegawa, Representative Director & CEO
• Capital: JPY 10,000,000 (increased on 7 October 2026)
• Head office: 7F ONE FUKUOKA BLDG., 1-11-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0001, Japan
• Business: Uniform planning, manufacturing and sales; branding; portal services; issuing and managing Digital Product Passports