Health Strategy Consulting (HSC), Pro­vidence, RI, has opened an office in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. The new office, known as HSC Japan, will be run by Takeshi Takeda, managing director, with whom HSC has worked over the past four years. In addition to building relationships with existing clients, HSC Japan will focus on two key initiatives—providing a focused report to Japanese companies on the U.S. contract manufacturing market and preparing the Health Strategy Network (HSN) Executive Conference series to be held in Tokyo in late May.