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Product Name Miracle “Bijinhime” Juice 25% Strawberry Juice / 40% Strawberry Juice Name of Business Operator Okuda Nouen Co., Ltd. (Hashima City, Gifu Prefecture) Contact URL: http://www.bijinhime.jp/item_list/juice.html Product Features Okuda Nouen has been engaged in cultivating strawberries for 35 years. Thirteen years of trial and error developed extra-large strawberries "Bijinhime" (Beautiful Princess). One larger piece is 100 g in weight and the sugar content is 13 degrees or more. Its color, gloss, flavor, sweetness, and size are all "miracle of strawberry." We use this miracle high-class strawberry "Bijinhime" lavishly to make juice products. Raw Materials [25% Strawberry Juice] Strawberry (produced in Gifu Prefecture), caster sugar, acidulant, antioxidant (vitamin C), coloring (anthocyanin) [40% Strawberry Juice] Strawberry (produced in Gifu Prefecture), caster sugar, acidulant, antioxidant (vitamin C), coloring (anthocyanin) Main Sales Targets Online store, direct sales shops Product Image(s) (40% Juice 320 g) (25% Juice 180 g) -141-

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Product Name Miracle “Bijinhime” Juice 25% Strawberry Juice / 40% Strawberry Juice

Name of Business Operator

Okuda Nouen Co., Ltd. (Hashima City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.bijinhime.jp/item_list/juice.html

Product Features Okuda Nouen has been engaged in cultivating strawberries for 35 years. Thirteen years of trial and error developed extra-large strawberries "Bijinhime" (Beautiful Princess). One larger piece is 100 g in weight and the sugar content is 13 degrees or more. Its color, gloss, flavor, sweetness, and size are all "miracle of strawberry." We use this miracle high-class strawberry "Bijinhime" lavishly to make juice products.

Raw Materials [25% Strawberry Juice] Strawberry (produced in Gifu Prefecture), caster sugar, acidulant, antioxidant (vitamin C), coloring (anthocyanin) [40% Strawberry Juice] Strawberry (produced in Gifu Prefecture), caster sugar, acidulant, antioxidant (vitamin C), coloring (anthocyanin)

Main Sales Targets

Online store, direct sales shops

Product Image(s)

(40% Juice 320 g) (25% Juice 180 g)

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Product Name Tasty Chili Oil, Tasty Miso Name of Business

Operator Nanatsudaira Kogen Co., Ltd. (Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.ajime-pepper.com/

Product Features "Ajime pepper", a specialty of Nakatsugawa City, is an endemic native red pepper certified as Hida and Mino traditional vegetable by Gifu Prefecture. It has higher sugar content compared with other species of red pepper, giving you "sweetness" together with tangy spicy taste. They say that once you experienced this taste, you will be addicted to this Ajime pepper, which is unique and precious vegetable with limited distribution volume. Tasty Chili Oil and Tasty Miso use this "Ajime pepper" cultivated with neither pesticides nor chemical fertilizers.

Raw Materials [Tasty Chili Oil] Ajime pepper (produced in Nakatsugawa City), onions, garlic, green onions, sesame seeds, ginger, soy sauce, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, salt, soft brown sugar [Tasty Miso] Ajime pepper (produced in Nakatsugawa City), miso, crystal sugar, shiitake mushrooms, burdocks, carrots

Main Sales Targets Online store, direct sales shops

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(Tasty Chili Oil 140 g) (Tasty Miso 170 g)

Product Name Okumino Kojidori Chicken "Black Curry" and "Well-stewed Chicken Wing Curry"

Name of Business Operator

Torisawa LLC (Kaizu City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.torisawa.net/shina.html

Product Features Okumino Kojidori chicken was developed by improving the breed of Gifu Jidori local chicken which has been designated for special protection in 1941. Torisawa has been raising Okumino Kojidori chickens by flat rearing under the environment similar to nature, feeding corns, and rice produced in Gifu Prefecture. We stewed Okumino Kojidori chickens for a long time over a low flame to make luxurious curry.

Raw Materials Chicken (Okumino Kojidori), onions, flour, chicken soup, lard, milk, onion extract, sugar, spices, apple puree, mango chutney, beef extract, edible formulated oil, salt, garlic, ginger, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, coffee, seasonings (such as amino acids), caramel coloring *Includes soybeans in some ingredients.

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, online store

Product Image(s)

(Well-stewed Chicken Wing Curry 230 g)

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(Black Curry 210 g)

Product Name Variety of Rice Balls Using Hatsushimo Rice Produced in Gifu Prefecture

Name of Business Operator

Fukue Einou LLC (Kaizu City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.nocca.info/

Product Features Our own direct sale shop "Saisai Onigiri nocca" in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture sells about 30 kinds of rice balls using “Hatsushimo” rice produced in Gifu Prefecture grown in our farm. We offer safe and secure rice which shows growers’ identification at affordable price. We boil rice in the special ordered iron pot every morning at the shop, and make rice balls one by one after accepting orders. We also put the ingredient inside a rice ball every time we get the order, so you can enjoy a fresh onigiri (rice ball) at any time.

Raw Materials Hatsushimo produced in Gifu Prefecture, ingredients put inside the rice balls, etc.

Main Sales Targets

Our own direct sales shop

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Product Name 25% Dragon Fruit Juice Beverage Containing Flesh of Fruit

Name of Business Operator

FRUSIC LLC (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.frusic.co.jp/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features We process and sell dragon fruit in Takayama, which was raised by utilizing the heat of hot springs of Okuhida Onsen area. Selecting quality fruit only, we have confidence in the juice.

Raw Materials Dragon fruit, granulated sugar, lemon juice

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, souvenir shops

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Dragon Fruit Juice Beverage 180 ml

Ingredient Fruit

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Product Name 50° CLUB Cut Vegetables Pack 50° CLUB Vegetable Puree Pack

Name of Business Operator

Manma Noujyou LLC (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.manmanj.jp/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Low temperature steaming brings out original flavors and tastes of vegetables, and it keeps nutrients contained in them. Since they were cut and preprocessed, it is easy to cook with simple seasoning, and to use for soups and sweets. We also recommend the packages to elderlies and busy housewives for preparing nursing food and baby food, respectively, because of small quantity of the package.

Raw Materials [Cut Vegetables Pack] Radishes, carrots, potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins. [Vegetable Puree pack] Tomatoes, carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and apples.

Main Sales Targets

Companies operating nursing food delivery service, food wholesalers, supermarkets

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(Cut Vegetables Pack) (Vegetable Puree Pack)

Product Name [Ougon-no-kirameki] Rice Bread Made by Wani Farm

Name of Business Operator

Wani Farm Co., Ltd. (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.wani-nouen.com/

Product Features Rice bread [Ougon-no-kirameki] was made from rice grown in our farm, which won the Diamond prize in International Contest on Rice Taste Evaluation and selected raw materials produced in Hida Takayama area. It is characterized by delicate fragrance and gentle sweetness that rice has by nature.

Raw Materials Rice flour (produced in Gifu Prefecture), brown rice flour (ditto), wheat gluten, caramel chocolate, sweet sake, butter, unrefined sugar, sugar-soaked dried fruits, walnuts, yeast, perilla, salt, sesame

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, inns and hotels, nursery, online store

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Product Name Japanese Pepper with Mill

Name of Business Operator

Hida Sansho LLC (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hidasansyo.com/

Product Features Every time we sampled Japanese pepper seeds in a mill at business meetings or trade fairs, we received a lot of voice "Please commercialize this product." We decided to respond to such a request. You can enjoy fresh scent of milled Japanese pepper.

Raw Materials Japanese pepper (produced in Hida area)

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, local specialty shops, hotels, online store

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Product Name Togen-iwana Sushi Wrapped in Bamboo Leaf

Name of Business Operator

Osaka-cho Freshwater Fish Aquaculture Fisheries Cooperative (Gero City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.seiryu.ne.jp/~amagogo8/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features We aquaculture chars spawned utilizing blessed clear stream of Mt. Ontakesan. Togen-iwana Sushi is made of these chars and Koshihikari rice of local produce, which is wrapped in bamboo leaf. We value local production for local consumption, together with safety and security. This grilled-style char sushi is delicious.

Raw Materials Rice, chars, vinegar, soy sauce (contains wheat and soybeans), ginger, sake, sugar, mirin, potato starch, salt, rapeseed oil

Main Sales Targets

Tourism facilities, etc.

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Product Name Hida Yamami Wild Yam Mineral Spring Tororo

Name of Business Operator

Agricultural Activation Cooperative Hida Osaka Farm (Gero City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hidaosakafarm.jp/

Product Features Osaka-cho in Gero City, Gifu Prefecture has a carbonated spring which is unique in all over Japan. Carbonated spring cuisine is one of the specialty. We grated wild yam and carefully added mineral spring to create tasteful "Mineral Spring Tororo".

Raw Materials Wild yam (produced in Hida area, Gifu Prefecture), mineral spring (produced in Osaka-cho , Gero City, Gifu Prefecture / Yuya Onsen), Usukuchi (light-colored) soy sauce (salt, wheat, defatted soybeans (GM-free), soybeans (GM-free), glucose, wheat protein, rice, alcohol)

Main Sales Targets

Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), souvenir shops, online store

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Product Name Itoshiro Tsubumorokoshi (Dried Corns)

Name of Business Operator

Itoshiro Furusato Food Processing Cooperative (Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: https://www.facebook.com/furusato.itoshiro

Product Features Dried corns only made from sweet corns called “Amaenbo” produced in Itoshiro, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. No additives and no coloring. The condensed sweetness of corns spreads in your mouth without losing flavor. You can use it freely, such as cooking with rice. In addition, we have introduced natural energy (micro hydro) in a part of the manufacturing process.

Raw Materials Corns (produced in Itoshiro) Main Sales

Targets Wholesale trading companies, online store, Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), restaurants, retail stores

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Product Name Dried Tomatoes “Taiyo-no-kakera”

Name of Business Operator

Hashiba Nouen LLC (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hasibanouen.net/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features We use tomatoes grown in the nature of Hida Takayama area. No seasonings used at all. It is a 100% tomato product. It doesn’t have any additives, so you can enjoy sweet, sour, and thick tomato’s original taste.

Raw Materials Tomatoes (Momotaro Eight produced in Gifu Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), direct sales shops, online store

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Product Name Hunter’s Frank (Venison and Pork Frankfurter)

Name of Business Operator

Inoshikacho (Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://inoshika.jp/

Product Features Venison and pork make exquisite taste in combination of smoke flavor, expressing the strong point of wild game. You can enjoy "simple and quick wild game cuisine" just by frying it up in a frying pan.

Raw Materials Pork (produced in Gifu Prefecture), venison (ditto), salt, sugar, spices, phosphoric acid Na, coloring agent (nitrite Na)

Main Sales Targets

Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), event marketing

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Product Name Hida Wagyu Beef Curry Produced by Yamatake Farm

Name of Business Operator

Yamatake Farm LLC (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hida-yamatake.jp/

Product Features We lavishly used wagyu beef produced in Yamatake farm and carefully made curry taking a lot of time according to our own recipe. Please open the can and take the curry to another container and then warm it by microwave or over a bowl of hot water.

Raw Materials Beef, vegetables (onions, garlic, ginger), curry roux, veal stock, demiglace sauce, flour, sugar, syrup, spices, tomato puree, animal protein hydrolysis product, soybean oil, seasonings (such as amino acids), thickeners (modified starch, guar gum), emulsifier, caramel coloring, flavoring

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops

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Product Name Buckwheat Florentine, Buckwheat Pound Cake, Horse-chestnut Pound Cake

Name of Business Operator

Yamakoshi Hirofumi, Sobashou Yamakoshi (Shirakawa-mura, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hidatakayama.ne.jp/sobasyou-yama/

Product Features We use buckwheat flour, which was produced from conventional buckwheat harvested in our own farm, ground by millstone, and dried under the sunshine in the mountain village of Shirakawa-go. It is in good combination with topped horse chestnuts and rum raisins. The rich fragrance of buckwheat is confined in the baked confectionary.

Raw Materials [Buckwheat Florentine] Buckwheat flour, butter, sugar, almonds, flour, fresh cream, eggs, honey, milk, vanilla essence [Buckwheat Pound Cake] Margarine, sugar, eggs, buckwheat flour, wheat flour, baking powder [Conker Pound Cake] Margarine, sugar, eggs, buckwheat flour, wheat flour, raisins, horse chestnut, rum, baking powder

Main Sales Targets

Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), direct sales shops

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Product Name Colorful Rice Cakes (Mugwort, Indian Millet, Red Beet, Foxtail Millet, Millet, Black Bean Rice Cakes)

Name of Business Operator

Minamihida Health Farm LLC (Gero City, Gifu Prefecture)

Contact URL: https://ja- jp.facebook.com/Nanhidaherusufamu E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features We produced healthy rice cakes using Takayama glutinous rice cultivated by Gifu Clean Agriculture, with the addition of vegetables and cereals, such as red beet and mugwort, making the most of the original color and nutrition of raw materials.

Raw Materials [Mugwort rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), mugwort [Indian millet rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), Indian millet [Red beat rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), red beet [Foxtail millet rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), foxtail millet [Millet rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), millet [Black bean rice cake] Takayama glutinous rice (produced in Gifu Prefecture), black beans, salt

Main Sales Targets

Farm stands, mail order (including online store)

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Product Name Miu Tomato Juice <Golden>, Miu Tomato Juice <Red>

Name of Business Operator

Makoto Iida, Iida Farm (Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://iida-farm.jimdo.com E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features [Miu Tomato Juice <Golden>] Transparent and gold-colored cherry tomato juice with refreshing taste. [Miu Tomato Juice <Red>] Thick sweet cherry tomato juice. 100% juice made from high sugar content cherry tomatoes cultivated with bonito and kelp without using any chemical fertilizer. Miu tomato was named after the word "umi" (which means “sea” in Japanese), because the tomatoes are raised by the grace of the sea.

Raw Materials Cherry tomatoes

Main Sales Targets

Department stores, local specialty shops, online store

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Product Name Fig Jam Series Produced by Mima Engei in Fig Kingdom, Aichi Prefecture

Name of Business Operator

Mima Engei Co., Ltd. (Tokai City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://mimaengei.com E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features These are additive-free handmade jam series with less than 20% sugar content, produced by a fruit farmer that has been cultivating figs from the generation of his grandfather in Tokai City, Aichi Prefecture. “No extra additives” is our policy. We manufacture safe and secure products that you can give to your family and your beloved people. Please enjoy the taste, flavor, texture, and scent of real fruits. There are thirteen types of jams, including fig, dragon fruit, and passion fruit, together with new lineup such as kiwi, strawberry, Banpeiyu orange, and hassaku orange.

Raw Materials Figs (produced in Chita Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture), granulite sugar, lemon juice (produced in Tokai City, Aichi Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, etc.

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Product Name Kintoki Ginger and Peach Vinegar

Name of Business Operator

Kimura Nouen LLC (Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://shougaya.com/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features By using Kintoki ginger with peel, we can extract liquid whose component is excellent together with good scent and rich taste. The mellow and fragrant peach vinegar was made using traditional formula (stationary fermentation method) by Kawakami Suten which has been making vinegar from the Taisho era (around ninety years ago). We added apple and lemon juice in order to make the vinegar drink easier to drink. All the ingredients are made in Japan. You can also use it in place of vinegar for dressing.

Raw Materials Kintoki ginger extract, beat granulated sugar, fruit vinegar (peach vinegar), fruit juice (apple, lemon)

Main Sales Targets

Department stores, online store, local specialty shops, highway rest areas, exhibition sales

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Product Name Mellow Japanese-style Beef Stew

Name of Business Operator

Takeuchi Bokujou Inc. (Shitara-cho, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://teleco.jp/takeuchi/

Product Features We stewed oversized soft beef cubes seasoned with white miso to make its taste mellow. Mikawa roasted sake of local Sekiya brewery is used as the secret ingredient, together with konjak sold by Konjak Village of JA Shitara, also the specialty of Shitara-cho in Okumikawa area. Please warm it to eat as Japanese-style beef stew or top it over the warm steamed rice to make a beef stew bowl. It is good for serving to sudden visitors, or as a side dish to go with sake, or as carried provisions for climbers and hikers.

Raw Materials Beef (produced in Aichi Prefecture), konjak, etc.

Main Sales Targets

Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station), direct sales shops, souvenir shops

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Product Name Rapeseed Oil

Name of Business Operator

Nanohana Nouen Co., Ltd. (Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hanaoka.biz/700.htm E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features This is 100% rapeseed oil produced in Aichi Prefecture, which was cultivated without using agrochemicals, herbicides, and pesticides. Because impurities such as oxidized materials are removed in the primary filtering process, it becomes sticky oil strong against oxidation. As it has smooth and mellow taste, it is recommended when you want to cherish the taste and aroma of the material. You can use it for a wide range of recipes, including dressing, sweets, fried food, and stir-fried food.

Raw Materials Edible rapeseed oil Main Sales

Targets Retail stores, etc.

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Product Name Toyohashi Komeko - Rice Flour Hot Cake Mix

Name of Business Operator

TeruoYasuda, Kiyosu Rice Center (Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.kome2-shop.com/index.shtml E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Mix flour series that use rice flour instead of wheat flour. Specially cultivated Aichi-no-kaori rice is used for raw material. Aluminum-free baking powder is used to make the dough puffy and plump. It has sweetness like Aichi-no-kaori’s taste, and with less volume, it sticks to your ribs longer than wheat flour.

Raw Materials Rice (produced in Aichi Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Online store, department stores, Michi-no-Eki (Roadside Station)

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Product Name Blueberry Pie

Name of Business Operator

Sugitagumi Co., Ltd. (Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.komichi-inabu.jp/blueberry-komichi.html E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Fresh blueberries nurtured and harvested with great care were stuffed in the pie as handmade jam and as whole fruit. Once you bite the pie, the sweetness of crispy pie and sour blueberry taste will spread gently in your mouth. Please enjoy a blueberry pie with plenty of blueberries produced by a blueberry farm in Inabu, Toyota-city.

Raw Materials Blueberries, wheat flour, butter, etc.

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales shops, event marketing

Product Image(s)

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Product Name Kaki-an (Semi-dry persimmon)

Name of Business Operator

Ishimaki Kaki Koubou Co., Ltd. (Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.harata-f.com/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features This persimmon paste (semi-dry persimmon) is made from regional specialty Jiro persimmons. Persimmon lovers are very happy because this persimmon paste with new texture can be eaten throughout the year. You can eat it with tea, or use it for cooking. In addition, this persimmon paste has natural sweetness and no additives, you can give it to children as snack for children with a sense of security.

Raw Materials Persimmons (produced in Aichi Prefecture) Main Sales

Targets Online store

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Product Name Colorful Tomatoes

Name of Business Operator

Seiji Muramatsu (Shitara-cho, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://muramatsu-nouen.com E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Tomatoes cultivated by a tomato farmer with 46 years of career. The field is located 740 m above sea level. These tomatoes are characterized by unique sweet and sour taste generated by natural water flowing out from 1000 m class mountains and the daily temperature difference on the plateau. In addition, the tomatoes have a good reputation as having rich taste. Many high-end restaurants and sweet shops in urban areas are also our customers.

Raw Materials Tomatoes (produced in Aichi Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Restaurants, etc.

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Product Name MIX Berry Jam [Blueberries & Garden Huckleberries]

Name of Business Operator

Higashi Mikawa Agricultural Processing and Sales Cooperative (Shinshiro City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.hnk.or.jp/ E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Garden huckleberries not so known in Japan but have stronger health functionality than that of blueberries are lavishly used with blueberries to make mix jam. Both garden huckleberries and blueberries are cultivated without using pesticides.

Raw Materials Blueberries (produced in Aichi Prefecture), garden huckleberries (ditto)

Main Sales Targets

Online store, direct sales shops

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Product Name Mikawa Japanese Black Tea

Name of Business Operator

Yoshimasa Umemura, Miyazakien (Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.miyazakien.info E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Native variety cultivated in the seedlings about 150 years ago (Motomiya) was picked carefully in cooperation with local elementary school students and local residents. Then, using our own fermentation technique, it was semi-fermented and dried under the sunshine over a period of two days. It is one and only tea made in Japan. It is mellow and slightly sweet, tasty fermented tea, which goes well with Japanese sweets and Japanese cuisine

Raw Materials Tea (produced in Aichi Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Online store, hotels, direct sales shops

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Product Name Komikado Gyouza Dumplings

Name of Business Operator

Den-en LLC (Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact URL: http//komikado.jp/

Product Features "It is a slightly luxurious gyouza stuffed with fresh seasonal vegetables one by one." This is a new-type handmade boiled gyouza made with only one kind of seasonal vegetable. Vegetable paste will be changed from season to season. Because it is eaten boiled, use of oil is reduced and healthy.

Raw Materials Vegetables (cauliflower, green beans, snow peas, Japanese mustard spinach, eggplants, tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, etc.) (produced in Mie Prefecture), pork (ditto)

Main Sales Targets

Directly operated restaurant, Online store

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Product Name Kuwana Glutinous Wheat "Glutinous Wheat Noodles" Udon and Ramen Noodles

Name of Business Operator

Hiroyuki Ito, Imayasu Rice Center (Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://imayasu-rice.jp/

Product Features Glutinous wheat was first developed and bred by Japan. You can enjoy its distinctive texture and flavor. These wheat noodles are made from Kuwana glutinous wheat we raised from seeds, which have smooth and springy texture when you are eating them. Certified as the “AFFrinnovation “business, this product was created by an identified farmer under the cooperation of a lot of people. Taking advantage of the merit of raw material, we made easy-to-eat noodles.

Raw Materials Udon: glutinous wheat (produced in Kuwana), wheat (Ayahikari; produced in Mie Prefecture) Ramen: glutinous wheat (produced in Kuwana), wheat (Nishinokaori; produced in Mie Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Order sales through phone/FAX, online store

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Product Name Uribo no Cup Gelato

Name of Business Operator

Agricultural Producers’ Cooperative Corporation Uribo (Inabe City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact URL: http://www.net-uribou.jp/

Product Features This gelato uses seasonal agricultural products to be shipped to Fureai-no-eki Uribou of Inabe farm stand. As gelato which shows the face of producers from the raw materials, we offer secure and safe products to consumers. Though the types vary depending on the season, we always provide 14 types of gelato.

Raw Materials Please contact us, because the raw materials depend on the type of gelato.

Main Sales Targets

Farm stand

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Product Name Treasure of Raw Wood Shiitake ”Salt” Name of Business

Operator Noro Foods Co., Ltd. (Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.genboku-siitake.com/

Product Features By making each particle of shiitake round using a special technology, the surface area of the particle increases. We mixed salt and such shiitake particles with large surface area, and finally completed Treasure of Raw Wood Shiitake ”Salt” that gives you smooth mouthfeel, and elegant flavor and taste. Raw wood shiitake is rare nationwide. We use this salt for seasoning "Shiitake Bar" very popular at Okage Yokocho near Ise Shrine. This all-purpose seasoning is the fruit of a raw wood shiitake farmer’s idea to eat raw wood shiitake in the most delicious way.

Raw Materials Salt (produced in Tokushima Prefecture), raw wood shiitake mushrooms (produced in Mie Prefecture)

Main Sales Targets

Supermarkets, direct sales shops, online store

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Product Name Fading-resistant "Ise Tea Paste Produced in Ishigure"

Name of Business Operator

Tetsuya Ito, Marushin Ryokkouen (Inabe City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.marushin-ryokkouen.com

Product Features It is resistant to fading due to light and heat, so you can keep the original natural color of tea. It will broaden the ways for developing new tea products. We use tea leaves harvested in our own field, of which soil we made using an organic fertilizer and compost, taking advantage of the nature of Ishigure region, Inabe, Mie Prefecture. Its paste form allows you to solve it in water easily, less likely to get lumpy compared with powder tea.

Raw Materials Ise tea

Main Sales Targets

Japanese and Western-style confectioneries, restaurants, bakeries

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Sample Application (Bread)

Sample Application (Cake)

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Product Name Rice Bread Made from Iga Rice Name of Business

Operator Agricultural Producers’ Cooperative Corporation Hyakusho-kobo Iga-no-Daichi (Iga City, Mie Prefecture)

Contact E-mail: [email protected]

Product Features Cold water flows from Mt. Kitayama across Shimagahara, Iga City, Mie Prefecture and Shigaraki-cho, Koka City, Shiga Prefecture. We made rice flour made from Koshihikari rice grown in terraced rice fields such cold water is drawn into, cultivated with reduced pesticide. A horde of dragonflies fly in the air and freshwater clams can be caught in the waterways of the rice fields. Rice bread made from the rice grown under such environment has springy texture when you are eating it. After refrigerated storage, please warm it in the oven. You can always enjoy the crispy texture at surface and springy texture inside. (This rice flour bread is added with a little volume of gluten derived from wheat.)

Raw Materials Rice flour(produced in Iga Prefecture, Koshihikari) ,gluten,fresh cream,butter,etc.

Main Sales Targets

Direct sales, door-to-door sales to local meeting places, etc.

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