Harvard Elite Delegation Visits Japan: NTAM Founder & Chair Dr. Min Liu and Nintendo Family Successor Discuss Global Family Office Strategic Cooperation

May 20–25, 2026 — Jointly initiated by Harvard University and Japan’s prominent conglomerate families, the "Harvard × Yamauchi Japan Initiative (YJI)" was grandly held in Tokyo and Kyoto. Dr. Min Liu, Mariana, Founder and Chairman of Nice Talent Asset Management (NTAM), was invited to Japan for a one-week, high-profile, in-depth visit as one of the 20 distinguished representatives rigorously selected by Harvard University. During the visit, Dr. Min Liu held a private meeting with Mr. Banjo Yamauchi, the fifth-generation successor of the founding family of Nintendo and head of Yamauchi No.10 Family Office. The two leaders engaged in a profound discussion on core economic topics, including future trends of global family offices, long-term strategic capital cooperation in Asia, and impact investing.

In-depth Meeting with Nintendo's "Old Money" Family: Exploring Long-Termism and Cross-Generational Capital Allocation

Since its inception in 1889, the Yamauchi family has passed down its heritage through five generations, transforming Nintendo from a traditional Kyoto enterprise into a premier cultural and technological empire influencing multiple generations globally. As a leading figure among Japan's new generation of family offices, Mr. Banjo Yamauchi was recently featured on the cover of Forbes Japan (Billionaires Ranking 2025 Special Edition). The family office under his stewardship is actively driving traditional capital from wealth preservation toward "globalized, long-term value creation".

During the meeting, NTAM Founder Dr. Min Liu and Mr. Banjo Yamauchi engaged in a highly constructive, deep dialogue covering strategic dimensions such as "Global Multi-Family Office Trends," "Cross-Border Capital Allocation in Asia," "Technology, ESG, and Sustainable Development," and "Next-Generation Entrepreneurship".

"The highest level of competition in the future world has already gone beyond mere capital and efficiency; it is a competition of long-term strategic capabilities and core values," stated Dr. Min Liu. "The Yamauchi family’s steadfast adherence to long-termism perfectly aligns with NTAM's core philosophy of 'safeguarding long-term value and cross-generational asset allocation'."

Intertwining Top-Tier Political and Business Resources: Demonstrating World-Class Transnational Integration Capabilities

Beyond the strategic synergy with the Nintendo family, this itinerary further underscored the deep international network and elite political and business resources behind Dr. Min Liu. Throughout the week-long visit, Dr. Min Liu represented the Harvard delegation in high-level dialogues with multiple Japanese dignitaries and core corporate executives:

• Top-Level Political Dialogue: At the Kyoto City Hall, Dr. Min Liu held a cordial meeting and exchanged gifts with Mr. Koji Matsui, the current Mayor of Kyoto, engaging in an in-depth discussion on the restraint and dynamic balance maintained by the historic city across modernization, globalized development, and environmental protection.

  
  

• nstitutional Wisdom from History: She engaged in a profound dialogue with the 19th-generation descendant of the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, analyzing the institutional wisdom and family succession codes behind Japan's prolonged era of peaceful governance.

  
  

• Real Economy and Transnational Giants: She conducted an on-site inspection of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), gaining key insights into how the century-spanning enterprise translates an ultimate ethic of responsibility into a national-class asset.

Anchored in Top-Tier International Vision: NTAM Leads a New Era in Asian Asset Management

From engaging in profound exchanges with Japanese political dignitaries to co-strategizing the future of family offices with the successor of a top-tier "Old Money" family, Dr. Min Liu’s high-level global engagements not only reflect her exceptional personal reputation within international elite circles but also establish an unmatched global resource network and strategic height for NTAM, the asset allocation and management firm she founded.

In a rapidly changing global macroeconomic environment fraught with uncertainties, NTAM will leverage this global, top-tier perspective, its deep reverence for "time and market laws," and its exceptional capacity to connect premium cross-border assets to continuously provide ultra-high-net-worth clients and family offices with the most robust and far-sighted global asset allocation solutions.