KIRA Research is a research house covering Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. We help companies, and the teams that advise them, decide where to compete, how to enter and how to grow, with evidence they can cite.
Asian markets are fragmented, fast-moving and documented in many languages. The evidence a leadership team needs usually exists, but it is spread across local filings, industry bodies, trade press and the experience of people who work in the market.
Our work is to bring that evidence together, test it, and turn it into a clear answer to the question being asked: is this market worth pursuing, how should we enter, and where can we grow?
We started in company data, built dedicated research desks for Japan, Korea and China, and today publish industry research, expert insight and primary research under one name.
Each stage added a capability our research relies on today.
BizDirect Asia is established as a company intelligence data portal covering more than 15 million companies across 15 Asian countries.
The Japan Research Desk opens, introducing industry research, expert interviews and business matching.
Dedicated Korea and China Research Desks open, broadening our research capability across the region.
The BizDirect Asia Interview Transcripts Database launches, turning insight from expert interviews into accessible research intelligence.
Industry research and market intelligence services launch, and BizDirect Asia becomes KIRA Research, completing its evolution into a research-focused intelligence partner.
Reports on markets, segments and entry routes, each written around a specific business question, with a source on every figure. Every report is published in English, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
Explore the library →Interview transcripts and one-to-one conversations with operators, executives and specialists who know the market first-hand.
Discover Kira Experts →Customer surveys and in-depth interviews run in the local language, for the questions published sources cannot answer.
Discover Kira Survey →Every project starts from the decision it must inform, and gathers the evidence that decision needs.
Numbers carry their source, estimates are labelled and thin evidence is flagged, so findings can be checked and cited.
We work from local-language sources and publish in the reader's language, with identical figures and sources in every edition.
Our research team reviews every report before it is published.
We focus on sectors where companies compete for local demand, rather than export-only manufacturing, across three sub-regions.
Read the executive summary of any report, see how our research is made, or tell us about the decision in front of you.