What do you work for?No. 87

Japanese Manufacturing, to the World

Abroad, one feels it keenly: trust in Japanese manufacturing runs deeper than we at home imagine. Carefully made; rigorously quality-controlled; honest. This trust, built by generations before us, may be Japan's greatest intangible asset.

Yet there is a frustrating reality: for all that trust, Japan's finest things do not fully reach the world. Superb ingredients, technologies, and products quietly remain buried at home — world-class power to make, without matching power to deliver.

This is why we pour ourselves into global expansion: not merely to sell our own products, but to become a bridge carrying Japanese-quality craftsmanship to the people waiting for it. For someone who met the world in Canada and worked global business at a perfume maker, this is both enterprise and personal long-held wish.

Add the power to deliver to the power to make — and Japanese manufacturing can take the world's stage again.

What do you work for?

— Tomoki Nagano, Chairman & CEO, INSTINCT BIO TECHNICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ: BIOT)

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