 In the fall of 2017, a person in the financial industry that was close to the founding family requested that Murakami advise the family.Murakami obtained under 1% of the outstanding shares in Idemitsu, in order to get involved “sincerely, with the perspective of a shareholder, and not as an outsider”.By February 2018 he was in contact with Idemitsu management, and bridged the gap between management and the founding family.