| The Master Trust Bank of Japan 日本マスタートラスト信託銀行株式会社 | |
| Location City: | Minato, Tokyo |
| Location Country: | Japan |
| Key People: | Kaoru Wachi (President) |
| Net Income: | JPY 717 million (2016) |
| Aum: | JPY 371 trillion (2016) |
| Assets: | JPY 6,217.9 billion (2016) |
| Equity: | JPY 21.8 billion (2016) |
| Parent: | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group |
| Owner: | Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (46.5%) Nippon Life Insurance Company (33.5%) Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company (10.0%) Norinchukin Trust & Banking Co. (10.0%) |
is a trust bank in Japan. It was founded in 2000 and claims to be the first trust bank in Japan to be exclusively engaged in asset administration business.[1]
The company's shareholders are Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (46.5%), Nippon Life Insurance (33.5%), Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance (10%) and Norinchukin Trust & Banking Co. (10%).[2] Master Trust Bank is treated as a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, and is by extension part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.[3]
It is one of the three main master trust service providers in Japan, alongside Trust & Custody Services Bank (affiliated with Mizuho) and Japan Trustee Services Bank (affiliated with SMFG).[4]
End of 2016 the Master Trust Bank of Japan had round about 4.9 percent of the Japanese advertiser Dentsu, Inc.[5] End of 2022 it hold circa 15.4 percent shares of Toyo Tires, worldwide according revenue the tenth biggest manufacturer of tires.[6] [7] Furthermore, it is with 10 percent biggest shareholder of the Japanese investment-company Softbank; last one was for example an early investor in the Chinese e-commerce-company Alibaba.[8]
Master Trust Bank was founded in 2000 with investments from Mitsubishi Trust Bank, Nippon Life Insurance, Toyo Trust Bank, Meiji Life Insurance and Deutsche Bank. A month after its founding, it became the first Japanese asset administrator to offer online information reporting services.[9]