On August 19, Hokusei Products in Japan hosted a craft beer and puree tasting event for Japanese brewers. The event called, "Beer, Bananas, and Puree" was held at Buzzed Lamb in Tokyo. The seminar setting was a charming spare room in the brewery's building, a renovated traditional Japanese house. 30 brewers from 25 breweries attended the event, where they were [...]
On August 19 (Tue), Hokusei Products (Hokusei North America's parent company) will host a seminar for Japanese craft brewers. Taking place at Buzzed Lamb Brewing, this seminar will focus on Oregon Fruit Company's (OFC) purees, and be lead by Ms. Yurie Wata, Hokusei's manager in charge of OFC puree sales. During the seminar, brewers will be able to sample a [...]
Following their recent trip to Southern California, the Hokusei Products team from Japan recently returned to Oregon. The purpose of this most recent trip to the Greater Portland area was to hold a wide series of meetings with various business partners, including Oregon Fruit Company, the Japan-America Society of Oregon, the Oregon Department of Agriculture, Business Oregon, and Nippon Express, [...]
Earlier this month, teams from both Hokusei Products in Japan and Hokusei North America in Portland met in Southern California. The purpose of the trip was to research potential new business opportunities related to metals recycling. With this objective in mind, the joint Hokusei group held meetings with businesses that have experience in recycling scrap aluminum and copper materials. One [...]
Earlier this month, Hokusei North America (HNA) welcomed some very important visitors to Oregon. On May 20th representatives from ANA Trading and ANA Foods, member companies in All Nippon Airways Holdings Inc. The purpose of the visit was to meet with and inspect various fruit processing companies in Oregon. During their visit, the ANA team visited Oregon Fruit Company's [...]
Team members from both Hokusei Products (Japan) and Hokusei North America (USA) will be on site for the Hood to Fuji beer festival (www.hoodtofuji.com) held in Tokyo on April 19 and 20. Taking place biennially, Hood to Fuji is a a celebration of collaboration between brewers and cider makers in Japan and Oregon. For Hood to Fuji 2025, 25 teams [...]
In February, Hokusei Products made its largest purchase to-date of purees for sales to Japanese craft breweries. The shipment of this puree represents a new milestone in Hokusei's ongoing partnership with Oregon Fruit Company (OFC). Hokusei's exports of OFC's purees at a much larger scale are part of an overall strategy to make high-quality, aseptic purees more accessible to Japanese [...]
In early February, members of the Hokusei Products (Japan) team traveled to the US for a number of important meetings. Shotaro Tomita (Hokusei Products CEO) and Yurie Wata (Hokusei Products Manager) spent roughly one week between the Greater Portland and Greater Los Angeles areas. The purpose of their visit was to deepen relationships with a number of players, including Japanese [...]
Recently the New York Times announced its annual "52 Place to Visit" list, an assembly of travel destinations that the newspaper's experienced travel writers deem worthy of a visit. The 2025 version of this list includes well-known destinations, such as Sydney, Amsterdam, and New Orleans. However, one surprise was the inclusion of Toyama City, the largest city in Toyama Prefecture, [...]
The Hokusei North America team would like to wish a Happy New Year to our clients, business partners, and colleagues in Japan. We look forward to 2025 as way deepen existing relationships and create new ones. In the Chinese/Japanese zodiac, 2025 is the year of the snake (hebidoshi). In Japan, the year of the snake is typically associated with financial [...]