7 Apr, 2025

Hokusei Staff To Attend Hood to Fuji Festival

By |2025-04-07T14:24:13-07:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: Others|0 Comments

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 [...]

17 Mar, 2025

Largest Puree Shipment Ever Sent to Japan

By |2025-03-17T15:03:17-07:00March 17th, 2025|Categories: Others|0 Comments

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 [...]

13 Feb, 2025

Hokusei Japan Staff Visits Portland, LA

By |2025-02-13T16:52:20-07:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: Others|0 Comments

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 [...]

13 Jan, 2025

Toyama Makes the New York Times’ “52 Places to Visit” List

By |2025-01-13T16:12:07-07:00January 13th, 2025|Categories: Others|0 Comments

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, [...]

6 Jan, 2025

A Happy 2025 To All

By |2025-01-06T12:25:16-07:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: Others|0 Comments

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 [...]

19 Dec, 2024

Thanks for a great 2024

By |2024-12-19T10:12:58-07:00December 19th, 2024|Categories: Others|0 Comments

As 2024 comes to a close, the staff at Hokusei North America would like to extend its thanks to all those who have business friends, new and old, whom we have worked with during the course of the year.   This of course includes our years-long business partners such as the Portland Japanese Garden and Oregon Fruit Products. It also [...]

7 Oct, 2024

Hokusei Products Leadership Returning to Oregon

By |2024-10-07T17:49:37-07:00October 7th, 2024|Categories: Others|0 Comments

Later this month, key personnel from Hokusei Products, Hokusei North America's Japanese parent company will make a week-long visit to Oregon. Visiting from Japan, Hokusei's CEO Shotaro Tomita will be accompanied by Yurie Wata, Hokusei's manager 0verseeing trading partnerships with Oregon companies. CEO Tomita   While in Oregon, the Hokusei Products team will meet with its existing business partners in [...]

23 Sep, 2024

Hokusei Staff Speaks at Brewing Industry Event

By |2024-09-23T09:11:33-07:00September 23rd, 2024|Categories: Others|0 Comments

On September 13, Hokusei Japan staff member Yurie Wata presented to a group of roughly 70 Japanese professional brewers and cider makers. Ms. Wata's presentation took place as part of the "Oregon Brewing Ingredients" seminar sponsored by the Western United States Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA) and the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Ms. Wata's presentation focused on Oregon Fruit Company's (OFC) [...]

2 Sep, 2024

Hokusei to Present at Brewers’ Seminar in Tokyo

By |2024-09-02T14:12:39-07:00September 2nd, 2024|Categories: Others|0 Comments

Hokusei Products in Japan has been invited to speak at a Japanese brewers' seminar to be held on September 13 in Tokyo. Entitled, the "Oregon Brewing Ingredients Seminar", this event will be hosted by the Western United States Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA) and the Oregon Department of Agriculture.   The purpose of the event is to introduce Japanese professional brewers [...]

10 Jul, 2024

Hokusei Staff to Participate in U.S. Trade Mission

By |2024-07-10T19:28:51-07:00July 10th, 2024|Categories: Others|0 Comments

Later this month, Hokusei Japan staff Yurie Wata will participate in a trade mission visiting the U.S. Organized by WUSATA (Western US Agricultural Trade Association) the trade mission's goal is to introduce buyers from overseas markets to U.S. businesses, with an eye on increasing exports of American-made/grown agricultural and food products. To that end, trade mission participants will visit companies [...]

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