Mizuho Information & Research Institute provides high-quality solutions to customers, with experts in four distinct fields looking one step into the future: socioeconomics, telecommunications, environmental energy and science.
Contributing to a safe, secure framework for society
Solutions are needed for increasingly complex/compounding problems in areas such as revitalization of small and mid-sized companies, NEET policy measures and balancing work with personal life, health care and social insurance system reform, disaster prevention and urban policy, decentralization of local governing authority, and the introduction of IT and BPR in public-sector organizations. In finding these solutions, what is needed is an ability to analyze and see the trends of the times from a long-term perspective.
Mizuho Information & Research Institute is able to provide consulting services and outsourced studies to help solve these problems, backed by a long history of service for a wide range of clients including the central government and local administrative agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations.
Supporting technology development in the multimedia field
Programs are being carried out on a national basis in order to promote the computerization and technological development needed to maintain and improve the international competitiveness of industry. While offering policy recommendations on measures for progress in national computerization, Mizuho Information & Research Institute is playing a crucial role in the shaping and implementation of computerization policies through IT personnel training and security evaluation based on the ISO/IEC15408 standard. In addition, we also provide consulting services that utilize our research and development work on multimedia technology as well as information science technologies.
Supporting wind power and other CDM/JI projects

In the field of environmental energy, issues are rapidly accumulating on an international basis in areas such as CO2 emissions reduction, new energy development, hazardous chemical management and water quality conservation measures.
Mizuho Information & Research Institute is home to world-class consultants in these fields who are able to comprehensively integrate the know-how and information accumulated through a worldwide information network, as well as knowledge acquired through experience on projects in numerous countries. This enables us to provide solutions to a wide range of customers including the national government as well as local administrative bodies and the private sector.
A line of simulation software that can handle multiscale & multiphysics problems

Science and technology are central to the development and operation of industry, as well as the building of a safe, secure society. Mizuho Information & Research Institute provides optimal support in areas such as simulation technologies based on fluid, structural and electromagnetic analyses,
as well as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), bio/nano-technologies and other state-of-the-art research and development. This enables us to assist research agencies of the national government and industries with simulation systems development, technological studies and consulting services.