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From 4K imaging to a made-to-order shoe store Since Sansan’s Kamiyama Lab opened, businesses and satellite office launches have continued apace: there are now 17 companies with satellite offices, creating just over 40 new positions. The largest satellite office so far opened in 2013, repurposing a number of vacant residences. It was set up by Plat-Ease, a digital content planning and development company with head offices in Ebisu, Tokyo. Rather than a satellite office, they founded a new company, Engawa (the term for the porch that wraps around traditional Japanese houses), to specialize in 4K and 8K media. Inside the renovated traditional house is a high-tech IT office, the same as would be found in Tokyo, something unusual for a rural town ofin 2015. They screened about 40 works in spaces such as old playhouses and abandoned schools, traditional houses and sake breweries. In 2016, they filled about 50 empty storefronts in the old high street with an assortment of food stands and booths selling various goods, interspersed with ten spots where 4K monitors were installed, bringing the film festival to the whole street. Shoemakers, producer/directors, media artists, creators, and craftspeople have begun to move into the empty storefronts in the Yorii high street where the Plat-Ease office is located. A French bistro opened there in 2013. Also in 2013, the Kamiyama Satellite Office Complex opened inside a renovated garment factory. In July 2014, TERADA Takashi, a 31 year old 3D modeler moved from Tokyo to open an office there.