One of the central issues in the Damages Action concerns a dispatch-related work order transmitted to the Applicant on April 9, 2024.

The work order was sent as a PDF attachment from the Representative Director's email account and bore only a signature in the name of the Representative Director.

The Applicant questioned the authenticity of that signature, believing that it had not been genuinely executed by the Representative Director, and formally disputed its authenticity.

Accordingly, the Applicant requested that a version of the document bearing the official corporate seal of Interac Kanto South Co., Ltd. be provided so that it could be confirmed whether the document had in fact been issued on behalf of the licensed Worker Dispatch Operator.

In response, on April 10, 2024, a second PDF containing the same substantive content was transmitted from the same email account.

However, although the date appearing on the document remained April 9, 2024, the PDF had been modified to include what was represented to be the company's corporate seal.

In other words, no new work order dated April 10, 2024 was issued. Rather, the PDF data of the April 9, 2024 document itself appears to have been altered before being retransmitted.

The Applicant further contends that the seal impression appearing on the revised PDF does not correspond to the corporate seal ordinarily used by Interac Kanto South Co., Ltd., but instead appears to be a seal image that was electronically added at a later time.

Accordingly, two distinct issues have arisen, each constituting an independent issue in the pending litigation:

1. The authenticity of the signature appearing on the document dated April 9, 2024; and
2. The authenticity and legal ownership of the corporate seal added to the PDF retransmitted on April 10, 2024.

Subsequently, in the Preservation of Status Case, the Representative Director submitted a written statement bearing his personal seal. In that statement, he asserted that the dispatch-related work orders issued in April 2024 were documents issued by “the Company” and that he personally affixed “the Company's seal” to those documents.

However, even within that written statement, no explanation was provided identifying which corporate entity was being referred to as “the Company.”

Because the identity of the issuing company constitutes a matter of fundamental importance in the proceedings currently pending before the Tokyo District Court, the Applicant, following the filing of Tokyo High Court Case No. Reiwa 8 (Ra) No. 1253, served a certified written inquiry upon Link and Motivation Inc.

That inquiry requested a written response by May 15, 2026, specifically seeking clarification of the following matters:

• the legal relationship between Interac Kanto South Co., Ltd. and “Interac Kanto South Company”;
• the entity responsible for preparing and issuing dispatch-related documents transmitted through the lmi.ne.jp corporate domain;
• the corporate entity to which the Representative Director referred as “the Company” in his written statement; and
• the legal owner of the corporate seal appearing on the revised PDF retransmitted on April 10, 2024.

No response capable of resolving these questions was received by the stated deadline.

Three days later, on May 18, 2026, Link and Motivation Inc. publicly announced that Interac Kanto South Co., Ltd. would be absorbed into Link Interac Co., Ltd., with an effective merger date of July 1, 2026.

The Applicant respectfully submits that this public announcement significantly increased the importance of determining which legal entity was responsible for issuing the dispatch-related documents transmitted since December 2022, and which corporate entity exercised the authority to issue dispatch instructions to the Applicant. Those questions now carry heightened significance in light of the subsequent dissolution of the company identified in the Applicant's employment contract as the licensed Worker Dispatch Operator.