DID-GLOBAL

What DID-GLOBAL does

DID-GLOBAL Co., Ltd. (株式会社DID-GLOBAL) is a Japanese software vendor founded in August 2012, headquartered in Osaka with a Tokyo sales office, that builds and operates Apartment Japan®, a cloud-based digital transformation (DX) platform targeting the foreign-resident rental housing market in Japan. The platform provides multilingual property search, application, contract execution, and after-move-in support, structured around a configurable base subscription (¥150,000/month) with an optional dedicated-site add-on (¥20,000/month), a freemium inquiry tier, and the higher-end Apartment Japan-Luxe premium offering aimed at wealthy foreign executives. Integrated modules span 24-hour multilingual call center, rent guarantee (R-Japan), bulk CSV upload, priority listing, and an add-on multilingual living support service; the company has filed a patent pending on its rental property search/contract system and holds registered trademarks around the Apartment Japan® brand.

The business model is primarily B2B SaaS subscription, sold to landlords and rental-management operators serving inbound foreigners, supplemented by value-added services and partnerships with coworking brands (The DECK, Hankyu/Renxa) and West Japan municipalities (West Golden Route). Go-to-market leverages IT-subsidy eligibility, seminars, and case-study distribution across eight customer segments including furnished rentals, share houses, guesthouses, student housing, and mid/short-stay operators; the company transferred its direct rental housing operations business in 2024 to refocus on the platform. Hmlet Japan (Mitsubishi Estate Group, 1,600+ units) is the most prominently disclosed customer, with R-Japan and BraTTo featured as case studies. Registered capital stands at ¥119,600,000 and the company remains private under CEO Kondo Akiko.

Name

DID-GLOBAL

Legal name

DID-GLOBAL株式会社（ディアイディ・グローバル株式会社）

Website

https://did-global.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Short description

DID-GLOBAL operates Apartment Japan®, a cloud-based DX platform serving Japanese landlords and rental-management operators with multilingual property search, contract, and resident support for the foreign-resident rental market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Rental SaaS

NAICS

Rental and Leasing Services (532)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate Extended-Stay Housing (Relocation & Project-Based) (THAMAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Furnished Corporate Apartments (Urban, Mid-Rise) (THAMAHAG), Temporary Housing & Serviced Accommodation Coordination (HSAKACAG), Serviced Apartments & Corporate Housing Providers (THACALAD)

Keywords

• Foreign resident rentals
• Multilingual tenant platform
• Online lease contracts
• Property listing SaaS
• Rental contract digitization

Headquarters

HQ city

Osaka

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Apartment Japan® Platform Subscription / Listing Fees: Property management companies and landlords pay subscription and listing fees to publish properties on the Apartment Japan® portal and use the contract system. Fees are described as IT subsidy-eligible (up to ¥1.5M–3.5M under the IT導入補助金 program in 2023–2024). The company offers a free inquiry tier and paid tiers for full system access including the contract workflow, priority listing options, and analytics features.
2. Apartment Japan® System Usage Fees: Usage-based or recurring fees for access to the full contract system functionality including auto contract generation, electronic signature, payment settlement, and rent guarantee integration. The company also offers optional paid add-ons such as Priority Listing and CSV bulk registration. An example given: ¥150,000/month (system) + ¥20,000/month (dedicated site option) totaling ¥4,380,000 over 2 years, partially subsidized via IT導入補助金.
3. Premium Portal — Apartment Japan-Luxe: Separate premium tier of the platform targeting luxury furnished rentals for wealthy foreign executives and digital nomads, with higher listing/usage fees commensurate with the premium segment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

DID-GLOBAL operates Apartment Japan®, a cloud-based rental property search and contract platform purpose-built for foreign residents in Japan. The platform digitizes the end-to-end rental flow — property search, quotation, application, contract execution, payment, and rent guarantee — and supports multiple languages so non-Japanese tenants can complete every step online. A premium tier, Apartment Japan-Luxe, is offered for higher-end listings.

Product overview

DID-GLOBAL operates a platform-plus-services architecture centered on Apartment Japan®, Japan's first rental search and contract system for foreign residents, combined with Apartment Japan-Luxe (premium tier). The core platform enables end-to-end online rental processes from property search to contract completion in Japanese and English. Supporting modules include APJサポートサービス (call center support), 多言語Livingサポート (multilingual living assistance), アクセス分析機能 (analytics), 優先表示機能 (priority listing), and CSV一括登録機能 (bulk upload). The ecosystem integrates with co-working spaces, rent guarantee services, and multilingual support providers to offer comprehensive foreign rental solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Apartment Japan®: Foreign-focused rental property search portal site and contract system enabling property search, estimation, application, contract, payment, and guarantee to be completed entirely online.
• Apartment Japan-Luxe

Products and services

• Apartment Japan® (アパートメントジャパン) Cloud-based rental property search and online contract platform designed for foreign residents in Japan. Provides real estate companies with a multilingual SaaS to list properties, receive applications, execute leases, and collect rent online from non-Japanese tenants.
• Apartment Japan-Luxe (アパートメントジャパンリュクス) Premium product line within the Apartment Japan® platform offering a dedicated presentation and matching service for high-end rental listings targeted at foreign residents seeking luxury accommodations in Japan.

Quantifiable outcome

• Foreign resident tenant acquisition without in-house language staff — call center handles multilingual first-response for property companies
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• プラザホームズ株式会社（Japan Living Guide）minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 28 October 2025Plaza Homes operates Japan Living Guide (japanlivingguide.jp), an English-language website providing life-in-Japan information to foreign residents. APJ partnered to cross-promote housing search services and provide comprehensive living guidance to foreign tenants using the APJ platform.
• Renxa株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 September 2025Renxa provides multilingual call center and lifestyle support services (多言語Livingサポート, Global Support Desk, APJサポートサービス) that are auto-attached to APJ's rent guarantee contracts. Renxa also offers the Lifestyle Advisor service for utility setup assistance. This is a key integration enabling the 'no foreign-language staff required' value proposition for property companies.
• 阪急電鉄株式会社 / 阪急阪神不動産株式会社minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 September 2025APJ partnered with Hankyu Corporation to offer combined housing + FUTRWORKS coworking space packages. Properties near the FUTRWORKS facility can be listed with complimentary Day Pass access to the coworking space, targeting digital nomads seeking integrated living-working solutions.
• 西のゴールデンルート（19自治体広域プロジェクト）coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025DID-GLOBAL serves as a partner operator for the 西のゴールデンルート (West Golden Route) initiative, a wide-area tourism and investment promotion project spanning 19 West Japan local governments. APJ hosts a dedicated co-branded housing search portal for this initiative, enabling foreign residents to search, apply for, and contract mid-to-long-term (30+ day) rentals in the Western Japan/Kyushu area entirely online.
• The DECK株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2025The DECK operates coworking spaces and private rental offices in Osaka. APJ integrated The DECK's coworking facilities as co-listed options within the housing search portal, enabling combined housing + workspace bundles for digital nomads. Joint seminars and industry events conducted. The DECK community coordinator 向井布弥 regularly co-presents at DID-GLOBAL seminars.
• (一社)日本デジタルノマド協会coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 23 January 2025Japan Digital Nomad Association (JDNA), led by 代表理事 MOE中野 (Nakago Tomoe), is a key thought leadership partner. JDNA representatives regularly speak at APJ seminars and educational events. JDNA membership in 西のゴールデンルート initiative. DID-GLOBAL is a member of JDNA.
• 株式会社遊行coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 23 January 2025Yuko Co., Ltd. (CEO 大瀬良亮), a digital nomad marketing specialist and Japan Digital Nomad Association理事, is a regular featured speaker at APJ seminars. Provides market expertise on digital nomad trends and property requirements, directly driving APJ adoption among real estate companies targeting this segment.
• 株式会社BraTTominorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 April 2024BraTTo is a monthly/weekly rental operator that adopted APJ and provides consulting/backing case studies and feedback to DID-GLOBAL for product improvement. Featured as a customer case study partner.
• 株式会社R-JapanminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 April 2024R-Japan is a real estate rental, sales, and management company that adopted APJ's contract automation system. Featured as a customer case study partner with documented operational improvements.
• 株式会社船井総合研究所minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 September 2023Funai Soken (船井総研), a major real estate consulting firm, co-hosts rental trend seminars with DID-GLOBAL, featuring APJ as a recommended solution for foreign-resident rental business. DID-GLOBAL staff appear as guest lecturers at Funai Soken-organized seminars targeting real estate executives.
• (一社)大阪外商研究所 / (一社)セカイズminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 September 2023Co-hosts rental trend seminars with DID-GLOBAL, presenting APJ alongside rent guarantee and SA/monthly rental operator solutions to real estate industry audiences in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya.
• (三社)Beyond the Community（関西圏コワーキングスペース運営者ネットワーク）minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 September 2023APJ partnered with Beyond the Community, a Kansai-area coworking operator network, to co-host industry seminars and promote the housing+workspace bundled model to real estate and coworking industry professionals.
• (一社)大阪外国企業誘致センター (O-BIC)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 September 2023DID-GLOBAL is a member of O-BIC, Osaka's foreign company attraction center, which supports international business development in Osaka and may refer foreign-resident housing services to member companies.
• アイ・シンクレント株式会社 (iTR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 July 2023iTR provides the A Smile Plus rent guarantee service, auto-attached to all APJ contract system transactions. iTR also offers credit card-based rent payment collection (収納代行) with business model patent. Co-located with DID-GLOBAL in Tokyo (久米ビル6F). Major shareholder: いちご株式会社 ( TSE Prime: 2337).

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Borderless Japan: Foreign-focused rental housing marketplace in Japan for international tenants. Operates in a directly overlapping niche (foreigners seeking housing in Japan) but with a less developed contract/guarantee ecosystem than DID-GLOBAL.
• MetroResidences: Asia-Pacific serviced apartment and corporate housing operator offering furnished rentals with English support. Comparable as a foreign-facing furnished rental housing provider, though it operates its own inventory rather than a marketplace/SaaS model.

Broad incumbents

• SUUMO (Recruit): Japan's largest real estate listing platform owned by Recruit. A broad incumbent that could potentially expand into foreign-language rental listings; while not currently a direct competitor in the foreign-resident niche, its scale and resources represent the dominant listing platform in the Japanese rental market.
• WealthPark: Japan-focused real estate tech SaaS provider offering property management software and digital tools for landlords and property managers. Comparable as a proptech SaaS serving the Japanese real estate rental ecosystem, though it does not specialize in the foreign-resident niche.
• RENOSY / GA Technologies: Major Japanese proptech company offering end-to-end real estate services including brokerage, property management SaaS, and AI-powered property search. Operates at much larger scale but serves overlapping customer segments (rental property owners and managers) with technology-driven solutions.

Direct peers

• Reasonable Inc. Japanese real estate SaaS provider serving property management companies with contract automation, CRM, and operational efficiency tools. Comparable contract automation layer but without the foreign-resident specialization.
• Hmlet: Singapore-headquartered flexible living/coliving operator with Japan operations through Hmlet Japan (Mitsubishi Estate Group). Comparable target customer (foreign professionals, digital nomads) and is DID-GLOBAL's flagship anchor customer using the Apartment Japan® platform.
• Ietty: Japan-focused real estate marketplace and SaaS for foreigners and bilingual users searching for rental housing. Offers multilingual property search and automated inquiry services—directly overlapping with Apartment Japan's core foreign-resident rental search functionality.

Regional players

• Azaburo (麻布インテリア): 55-year-old Japan-based foreign-focused furnished rental and furniture leasing company. Direct comparable in the foreign-resident rental niche with English support, operating primarily in the Tokyo market rather than DID-GLOBAL's broader Osaka/West Japan footprint.

Others

• iTR (アイ・シンクレント): Rent guarantee and credit card collection provider for rental housing in Japan. Strategic partner that supplies the auto-attached rent guarantee layer in Apartment Japan® transactions, and Ichigo (parent) is a major shareholder of DID-GLOBAL.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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