◉ FOUNDER ARCHIVE / SUSUMU HASEGAWA

Founder / Advisor / Research Designer

Susumu Hasegawa 長谷川進

Turning invisible structures
into visible systems.

Entrepreneur and founder.
I build systems for comparison, verification, and visibility in fields where transparency matters.
This archive quietly preserves milestones, projects, public references, and primary statements.

Japan Entrepreneurship Transparency Infrastructure Motorsports Family

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About

Quiet. Structured. Archival.

This site is an archival profile: a place to preserve facts, timelines, projects, public references, and primary statements.

01 / TRANSPARENCY

Building systems where transparency matters.

Across insurance, mobility, and hotel pricing, I have worked to build systems for comparison, verification, and visibility where information asymmetry is common.

02 / ARCHIVE

Preserving decisions, discipline, and daily practice.

Projects, research, decisions, and personal records are preserved as an archive so that their context and value remain accessible over time.

Selected Timeline

1988 — 2026

Selected milestones from the career and project timeline preserved in this archive.

1988

Joined Tokio Marine Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Beginning of the professional career.

1995

Founded Dream Station Co., Ltd.

Capital: ¥10M.

1998

Founded “Hoken Square Bang!”

Japan’s first insurance comparison website.

2003

Released the world’s first ETC device + ETC card package

Following a business alliance with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

2002–16

Challenge to F1 & MotoGP

Motorsports & family archive.

2020

Hotel price transparency initiative

Hotel price comparison and transparency initiative.

2023

Launch: officials.tokyo

Launch of the global travel and transparency platform.

2025

Launched GHPTP

Global Hotel Price Transparency Project.

2026

GHPTP | Hotel Price Search Project Renewal

July 7, 2026.

Project Archive

Projects

Current and archived projects preserved in the original English page.

01 / GHPTP

Global Hotel Price Transparency Project

Global Hotel Price Transparency Project (GHPTP). Verifying hidden hotel rates worldwide.

About GHPTP →

02 / PROOF

Proof / Verification

Public verification entry for GHPTP.

Verification Archive →

03 / MOTORSPORTS

Formula 1 & MotoGP

Family challenge in Formula 1 & MotoGP (2002–2016).

Archive →

04 / FOUNDER ARCHIVE

Founder Archive from Age 60

Decisions, discipline, and daily practice.

Founder Archive →

Current Focus

Global Hotel Price
Transparency Project

Currently launching Global Hotel Price Transparency Project (GHPTP), with a focus on verifying hidden hotel rates worldwide.

GHPTP World HQ Verification Archive

Full Timeline

Biography

Susumu Hasegawa（長谷川進）
Entrepreneur / Social Structure Reform Advisor / Public Design Researcher
CEO, Global Talent Institute / Founder, Global Hotel Price Transparency Project (GHPTP)

1988 Apr

Joined Tokio Marine Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

1995 Mar

Founded Dream Station Co., Ltd. (Capital: ¥10M)

1995 Apr

Joined Seiwajuku (Kazuo Inamori).

1996 Apr

Appointed a Seiwajuku organizer.

1997 Apr

Founded Cosmos Insurance Brokers following Japan’s Financial Big Bang deregulation.

1998 Apr

Founded “Hoken Square Bang!”, an early insurance comparison website in Japan.

1998 Oct

Founded Twenty-One Insurance Company in Bermuda.

1999 Oct

Founded Web Crew Inc. (Capital: ¥10M)

2001 Mar

Business alliance with NTT Communications.

2001 Apr

Launched the Driving Support Card (JCB).

2001 May

Dream Station capital increase / convertible bond; capital reached ¥52.5M.

2001 May

Founded Royal Risk Management (Capital: ¥3M).

2002–2016

Formula 1 & MotoGP family challenge. Motorsports archive →

2003 Mar

Business alliance with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

2003 Apr

Released an ETC device + ETC card package.

2004 Apr

Installed ETC application materials at highway service areas across Japan.

2004 Jul

Business alliance with Sumitomo Mitsui Card.

2004 Sep

Web Crew Inc. listed on TSE Mothers.

2015 May

Web Crew Inc. delisted from TSE Mothers.

2017 Sep

Expanded the Cafe Chopin franchise business.

2020 Jul

Started a hotel-price transparency initiative during the Go To Travel period.

2023 Sep

Launched officials.tokyo.

2024 Jan

Launched the Hokuriku travel-support project.

2024 May

Launched the Noto tourism-support project.

2025 Jan

Became CEO of Global Talent Institute — “How we move you.”

2025 Jul

Started a transparency initiative focused on condominium management.

2025 Oct

Relocated to Handa City, Aichi, and launched GHPTP.

2026 Jul 7

Renewed the GHPTP hotel-price search and verification project.

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