KKT LLC Launches New Baseball Team "Kanazawa Dragoncross"

KKT LLC (Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO Tamaki Kanemori) announced at a press conference on May 11, 2026 (5th floor, Kanazawa Tokyu Hotel) that it will join the Japan Sea League, a regional professional baseball league, as the team "Kanazawa Dragoncross" from the 2027 season.

From left: Tamaki Kanemori, Representative Director and CEO of KKT LLC and team owner; Keiichi Hanzaki, team president; Nobuyuki Oura, GM.

KKT LLC operates multiple restaurant businesses, real estate development, staffing services, IT businesses, buyout fund management and investment, startup support, and sports businesses both domestically and internationally.

(Website: www.kanemori-kkt.co.jp)

The biggest feature of the "Kanazawa Dragoncross" team is the adoption of a "dual career model" that allows professional baseball players to balance their athletic competition with work that develops business skills.

During the season, players will train in the morning, work at companies in the afternoon, and focus solely on baseball on game days.

By collaborating with local companies, the project aims to create a system where players, companies, and society support each other and grow together.

Starting as a "Regional Design Project" that connects the future of Kanazawa's "people," "companies," and "society" through the power of sports.

The reason for choosing Kanazawa for the new team is that with the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, the exchange population has increased, and Kanazawa, with its characteristics as a compact city where urban areas and daily life are close, seemed suitable for creating a new model that integrates sports and business.

★ Values created by this project - Young people return A new option of dual career promotes U-turns and I-turns. - Companies prosper Securing excellent human resources, organizational activation through sports, and brand power improvement. - Industry circulates Creating a new regional economic ecosystem starting from sports.

We are currently looking for the following partners: Sponsor companies (approx. 30 companies) Companies accepting players for employment (approx. 15-30 companies) Players for next season (approx. 30 people including manager, coaches, and players) Operations staff (2-3 people), interns, part-timers.

"Kanazawa Dragoncross" * The team name embodies the wish for players to shine in both fields, the ground and society, like a "dragon soaring through the sky and galloping across the land." "CROSS" symbolizes two intersecting careers, a place where encounters are born, and a challenge to go beyond common sense. We will disseminate this new form of dual career from Kanazawa, a city of tradition.

D Dual career R Respect A Ambition G Growth O Origin (Kanazawa) N Next Generation A team where these CROSS!

Soaring through the sky, galloping across the land Living in two fields Kanazawa DRAGONCROSS ---- Launch!

Introduction of key personnel - Owner: Tamaki Kanemori — Representative Director and CEO of KKT LLC www.kanemori-kkt.co.jp Kanazawa University Faculty of Education Affiliated Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High, and High School — Keio University — Itochu Corporation Currently, in addition to being the representative of KKT LLC, he is involved in multiple restaurant businesses, real estate development, consulting, staffing, IT, fund management, startup support, sports business, and regional revitalization projects both domestically and internationally. Hobbies: Baseball, golf, shogi, gourmet, travel, opera, Netflix, anime. - Team President: Keiichi Hanzaki Completed graduate school at Kanazawa University — Teacher at Kanazawa University Faculty of Education Affiliated Junior High School — Principal at Kanazawa University Human and Social Sciences School of Education Affiliated Junior High School — Specially Appointed Professor at Kanazawa University Graduate School of Teacher Education. Hobbies: Vegetable gardening, tea ceremony, reading. - GM: Nobuyuki Oura — Representative Director of Tactical Design Inc. Kanazawa University Faculty of Education Affiliated Elementary, Junior High, and High School — Nagoya University — Try Group Inc. Hobbies: Baseball, karaoke, cycling. - Legal Advisor: Yushi Sakashita — Law Office Z Kanazawa Office (New York State Bar registered) (Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture) Toyama Prefectural Takaoka High School — University of Tokyo. - Tax Accountant Advisor: Hirotake Murakami — Executive Director of Success Brain Tax Accountant Corporation Ishikawa Prefectural Kanazawa Izumigaoka High School — Doshisha University. - Social Insurance and Labor Consultant Advisor: Shiori Taniguchi — Vice Representative Partner of With Social Insurance and Labor Consultant Corporation Ishikawa Prefectural Kanazawa Izumigaoka High School — Gakushuin University. - Support Member: Akito Usui — Representative Director of GRITS Sports Innovators Inc. Keio University — Itochu Corporation — Representative Director of Hiba Sanbyaku Inc. (also concurrently serving).