. Company name: INASAWA Co., ltd Head office: 1-7-1, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan 114-0024 TEL No.: +81 (3) 3918-4945 FAX No.: +81 (3) 3918-4958 E-mail: info@inasawa.co.jp Corporated: January 1st, 1949 ● Planning and proposition oriented supporting Japanese buckwheat noodle and flour noodle shops Since established in 1949 we have been proposing various valuable plans and suggestions to a lot of noodle shops on a collaborating partner basis in addition to wholesaling foodstuffs. Our philosophy, based on long-term relationships with our client shops, focuses their prosperity leading to our success. To enhance the focus we are committed to developing new products and menu constantly and to present effective ideas and advice to our clients continuously. ● Supplying food materials to foodstuffs suppliers We are supplying food materials such as; Buckwheat powder (sterilized, alpha-fortified) Buckwheat grain (raw, cubes, parched, alpha-fortified) Buckwheat tea, and so on to many foodstuffs suppliers in various food industries such as; Bakeries, confectioneries, daily products factories and others ● Instructing to make buckwheat noodles for home cooking and to cook various ethnic buckwheat dishes In buckwheat producing districts, buckwheat noodles used to be ordinarily made at private homes. Thus, it can be said, Soba is kosher in the world-wide culture. We have been traveling to many towns and places to give a course instructing on how to　make buckwheat or how to cook ethnic buckwheat dishes for the public besides professionals. Through such activity we are endeavoring to spread buckwheat culture extensively throughout the world. Courses are held at: Otsuma Women’s college, Cooking course at Joshi Eiyo college, Yamamoto Cooking School, Sakaimatsu Center at Kashiwa, Takao Police Station, etc etc ● Research buckwheat dishes globally and present the results to the International Buckwheat Research Society Originated in Yunnan of China, buckwheat has spread over the world and been taken in different ways of cooking. To enhance our knowledge and utilize it to develop useful new ideas, we have been continuing field study various districts where buckwheat is still a staple food, such as in Yunnan of China, Inner Mongolia, Yellow Highlands and Asian Russia. Any discoveries practiced in these districts are also reported to the Society. ● Our successful developments are widely reported by the mass-media Up to the Ming era of China, bitter buckwheat had been used as a herbal medicine. Bitter buckwheat, called Tartar buckwheat, is very difficult to cultivate and has a peculiar and very strong bitter taste. When we succeed in improving such peculiar characteristics, suitable for ordinary food, this success was actively reported by the mass media like Nikkei Newspaper at that time. below: NEKKEI, 3/12/96 right : Ryutsu Service, 12/13/96   Copyright(C)2000-2006 INASAWA co., ltd. All Rights Reserved. Dattan, inasawa, soba, udon, tsuyu, buckwheat, noodle, Tartary, functional foods, Tartary buckwheat, tea, rutin, polyphenol, flavonoid, health, beautification, beauty, diet, FC, franchise, know-how, consulting, sonsul, restaurant, shop, supplement, open a restaurant, Japanese foods, Tenpura, Tempura, health foods, adult disease, diseases associated with adult lifestyle habits, diseases of adult people, diseases of adults, lifestyle diseases, elevated blood pressure, high blood, diabetes