The Palmer Project is now owned by DOWA Holdings, Japan, Ltd.—a massive multi-billion-dollar corporation headquartered in Tokyo. 

Their shiny, whitewashed website is full of vague corporate platitudes. They say their mission is “creating an affluent, recycling-oriented society through our business activities worldwide.” DOWA has thousands of employees in offices all over the world. So what is it that they actually do? 

Make money for investors. According to their corporate statement, they “strengthen business foundations by…