Weathernews Inc. is the world's largest weather service company. Headquartered in Japan, it is the only global weather content maker, and employs over 700 staff (including more than 400 meteorologists) in offices in 40 cities in 16 countries and regions, including United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, India, Nepal and Taiwan. Since its founding in 1986, Weathernews has provided weather-related risk consulting (RC) services to corporations and government entities. In addition, Weathernews is providing high-tech weather content to more than 40 major mobile carriers and has more than 1.5 million mobile subscribers worldwide.