BUSINESS

Since its founding in 1958, Tozai Boeki has engaged mainly in international trade for over 65 years. With export sales accounting for roughly 75% of its total sales, the company has been doing business mainly with partners based in Southeast Asian countries but also in the U.S., Europe, Oceania, etc. Today, the company’s most active trading partners are based in China and Sri Lanka. Tozai Boeki has a long history of trade with China, starting out as a diplomatic trading company approved by the Chinese government, pioneering the trade between the two countries in the post-war period. The company later opened its Beijing office in 1982 and its Shanghai liaison office in 1986, the latter of which was subsequently incorporated as a local subsidiary in 1996. Today, Tozai Boeki operates in six locations across China—Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Nantong—where around 40 employees work. In Sri Lanka, since opening its liaison office in 1968, the company has consistently been engaging in ODA projects (support for increasing food production, called “2KR”).

Tozai Boeki’s product range used to consist mainly of fertilizers and chemical products but later expanded to include cultivators, agricultural chemicals and materials, pharmaceuticals, electronic components and materials, measuring instruments, housing materials, etc. By transaction volume, sales have increased for electronic components and materials exported to China, agricultural machinery and chemicals sold in Sri Lanka, and machinery and equipment marketed across China and Southeast Asia. Regarding its domestic business, Tozai Boeki has been dealing for many years with major companies that are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market, thus enabling the company to export the high-quality products of Japan’s top manufacturers to countries around the world. Regarding recent international developments, Tozai Boeki established its Thai subsidiary in Bangkok in 2009 and also set up a joint venture company in Sri Lanka in 2016. All its overseas locations in China, Sri Lanka, and Thailand closely cooperate with the company’s Japan-based operations, aiming to expand Tozai Boeki’s business globally while optimizing its business locally.

Tozai Boeki believes its mission as a trading company is to "deliver to each customer the goods they need, wherever needed." Accordingly, the company is committed to facilitating commercial transactions mainly overseas, thus promoting economic and social advancement in Japan and around the world.
Thanks to today’s digital revolution, people can communicate online without ever meeting in person, no matter where they are around the globe. While it continues to leverage the latest IT to keep pace with the times, Tozai Boeki always values face-to-face communication and the interpersonal bonds that it cultivates, in line with its founding principle that "good and sustained human relation is the fundamental key for successful business." By communicating with its business partners in this manner, the company constantly strives to identify their potential needs and provide useful information, cultivating relationships of trust with them.

To realize this vision, Tozai Boeki is improving its internal environment so that each and every employee is able to perform to their full potential, while implementing measures and developing a culture that allows diverse professional talents to manifest and flourish. Tozai Boeki also leverages its enterprise systems to standardize internal business operations, optimize efficiency, and improve productivity. In addition, the company fully implements compliance and risk management structures in order to achieve highly reliable and transparent management. Tozai Boeki thus aims to be a company that is a pleasure to work for and offers high employee satisfaction while achieving steady and continuous growth, thereby promoting the happiness of its employees and their families. Amid the turbulent world of today, Tozai Boeki will rally the resources of all its employees behind the goal of realizing this vision, constantly returning to its founding principle that "good and sustained human relation is the fundamental key for successful business.