- Business
- LITALICO Inc. (7366.T) provides employment support, child welfare, platform, and overseas services focused on individuals with disabilities in Japan and the United States; core offerings include LITALICO Works for vocational training and job placement support for people with disabilities; LITALICO Junior for social skills and learning classrooms serving infants through high school students; LITALICO Wonder for IT, programming, robotics, and digital manufacturing education; LITALICO Developmental Navi as a portal site sharing developmental disability information for parents; LITALICO Work Navi for employment matching; LITALICO Career for media and job services in disability welfare; and LITALICO Life for personalized life planning and information services. The company operates platform businesses offering recruitment matching, SaaS software for welfare facilities including fukushi-soft and Plus One Solutions products, and overseas services through group homes and daytime support in Nebraska; it targets individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, welfare operators, and employers across child development, employment transition, and lifelong care segments. Founded in 2005 and headquartered at Nakameguro GT Tower in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, LITALICO employs over 5,000 people and maintains approximately 300 facilities primarily in Japan with expansion into the U.S. Recent developments include the June 2024 acquisition of Developmental Disability Centers of Nebraska (DDCN) for $50 million to enter the U.S. market and expand housing and activity services; multiple 2024-2025 wholly-owned subsidiary integrations such as nCS Inc. for daycare and bathing care, Amu Inc. for psychiatric nursing, HumanGrow Inc. for employment support, unico Inc. for child development, VISIT Inc. for home-visit care, and prior absorptions like fukushi-soft; and a transition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market.