The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (日本マスタートラスト信託銀行株式会社, Nippon Masutā Torasuto Shintaku Ginkō Kabushiki-gaisha) 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]

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The Master Trust Bank of Japan
日本マスタートラスト信託銀行株式会社

Founded	2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Kaoru Wachi (President)
Net income	JPY 717 million (2016)
AUM	JPY 371 trillion (2016)
Total assets	JPY 6,217.9 billion (2016)
Total equity	JPY 21.8 billion (2016)
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%)
Parent	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Website	mastertrust.co.jp

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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]