Processed Fishery Products Business Meeting
for Overseas Buyers
Matching that considers both the wishes of the Sanriku-Joban regions' processed fishery businesses and buyers.
Business meetings are held online.
You can view the products of processed fishery businesses in the digital products catalog.
Please make use of this when selecting a business partner.
※ Catalog listing start period: Late May - late June (updated as required)
We use Google Drive to ask about possible business meeting dates and which parties you wish to have business meetings with, and then we make matches based on both parties' wishes.
※ We use Google Docs to confirm information entered about matching, schedules, etc. Therefore, a Google account is required.
We kindly ask that those without an account create one.
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We will contact you with a business meeting schedule after arranging suitable matches.
Online business meetings will be set in two periods (by country) and carried out on Zoom.
We will carry out a connection test in advance to ensure everything goes smoothly on the day of the business meeting.
A moderator and interpreter will be present on the day.
Each business meeting takes 30-45 minutes.
※Interpreters will not be present for business meetings held in Japanese.
※We will contact you regarding schedules by early July for Online Business Meeting ① and by early August for Online Business Meeting ②.
We hold "face-to-face business meetings" where overseas buyers and processed fishery businesses that have participated in an online business meeting negotiate face-to-face. We also implement "production area inspection tours" where overseas buyers visit the Sanriku-Joban region to observe the processing facilities, markets, and so on.
Overseas buyers can not only check the quality and safety of products but also gain a deeper understanding of processed fishery products themselves and learn about the production process.
Meeting and speaking face-to-face cultivates a sense of security and trust regarding business dealings for both parties.
You can also interact with processed fishery businesses that are not holding business meetings.
There have been cases where tastings held at the venues led to connections!
Please do not hesitate to speak to processed fishery businesses.
※Invited buyers participating in face-to-face business meetings and production area inspections will be selected by the business meetings secretariat based on the state of progress of online business meetings, etc.
※We will post the face-to-face business meeting dates on our homepage once they have been decided.
The face-to-face business meeting, held on Monday, 27 October at the Sendai Royal Park Hotel, has now been successfully concluded.
We were pleased to welcome 75 representatives from 40 seafood processing companies across six prefectures, and 64 representatives from 56 overseas buyers from 17 countries.
We would like to thank everyone for their participation in this event.
2024 marked the third year of this project, which was implemented with the participation of 48 processed fishery businesses.
After conducting online business meetings, they met with 40 buyers from 13 countries for face-to-face negotiations on Monday, October 28th, in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, and visited the production areas, which led to many contracts being concluded and exports from Japan.
We intend to hold tasting events for overseas buyers in three countries:Thailand, India, UAE.
Products from participating businesses will be sent to local sites, and participating buyers can sample a menu arranged by local chefs.
We will carry out a questionnaire after the tastings.
We will notify each participating business of the questionnaire results and share what the tasting events looked like.
※We will post the venues for the tasting events, etc. on our homepage once they have been decided.
※We will notify buyers from the corresponding countries and regions via a separate email or by other means.
Last year, we held tasting events in three countries: Malaysia, Australia, Mexico.
The event gave buyers the opportunity to taste the rich variety of processed fishery products from the Sanriku-Joban region.
This allowed them to sample not only products from companies they had business meetings with, but also to discover new offerings, there by deepening their interest. There have been cases where these encounters at the event have led to successful business meetings and contracts!
Follow-up business meetings are held to pick up on negotiations that need some final support to reach a deal with one more push.
There have been actual cases where deals were completed through this event.
Secretariat of
Processed Fishery Products
Business Meeting
Endi(Mr.)／Naoko(Ms.)
JTB Corporation hosts the “Processed Fishery Products Business Meeting” as a part of
Fisheries Agency's FY2025 Sales Promotion Support Project
for the Reconstruction of Fishing Industry.
