Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation (JMF) has been listed on the Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) Section on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Securities code: 8953) as Japan Retail Fund in March 2002. It was the first investment corporation in Japan to specifically target retail property assets. After that, JMF merged with LaSalle Japan REIT Inc. in March 2010, and merged with MCUBS MidCity Investment Corporation which focused on office building in March 2021. JMF will hold up as its vision, “Support metropolitan life (live, work and consume) in Japan from the perspective of real estate”, and realize improvement of unitholder value (sustainable growth) through investment in urban real estate in Japan.