11.(1) Commercial Department Business

Japanese name: Casa Tozan

Brazilian name: Casa Tozan Limitada

Head Office Sao Paulo City

Branches Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Lins, Marilia, Presidente Prudente, Promitzon, Galentan, Alvarez, Masciardo

The main businesses of the Commercial Department are the coffee commissary business and the import/export business.

The Coffee Commissario Department is headquartered in Santos Port, which is the gateway to the state of São Paulo and is famous for its fragrant Santos coffee, and is located in remote areas such as Lins, Marilia, Promitção, Alvarez, Machado, Galentan, and Presidente Prudente. Our main business is large-scale coffee sales, coffee selection, and ancillary financial services through our network of agents located throughout São Paulo, as well as rice, castor, corn, and other products. It can be said that there is almost no agricultural product that is not handled in the market, and the advantageous sales of agricultural products produced by Japanese people are making a tremendous contribution to the country’s economy. In particular, its financial functions have established it as an agricultural financial institution that is most needed by Japanese residents in Brazil and has built a solid foundation of trust.

The origins of our import and export trade business can be traced back to 1933, when we opened a store in Sao Paulo to meet the growing demand for the development of the Latin American trade market, triggered by the exchange of economic envoys between Japan and Brazil. Since then, Japanese-produced silk, wool, iron products, agricultural tools, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, and other general goods have entered the Brazilian market, which had previously been dominated by Western products, at great sacrifices due to intense competition with Western products. Today, it has already established a solid commercial base and plays an important role in trade between Japan and Brazil. Next, in 1939, we began exporting Brazilian agricultural products such as cotton, castor seeds, cottonseed, and coffee to Japan, and in January 1941, we opened the Rio branch to handle these products. Items include pig iron, manganese, industrial diamonds, crystal, mica, etc., making a tremendous contribution to the acquisition of supplies for the home country. On the other hand, it has expanded its reach into import and export trade with neighboring South American countries such as Chile and Argentina, as well as the United States of North America, and is focusing on so-called third country trade.