Miso-han Co. Ltd.

Miso-han Co. Ltd., owning five group companies introduced in this article, retails and wholesales Japanese vermicelli, Japanese wheat noodle and buckwheat noodle using carefully screened domestic wheat and natural salt "Umi ha Inochi", as well as agricultural and marine products and other processed foods, under the motto of producing foods for ever-living healthy life. For hunky-dory foods production, environmental hormone and dioxin issues have been taken into account, and fastidious attention is paid in processes and quality controls.

Noodles produced by Matsunaga-Menko Inc., a company in Miso-han group, are aged in storehouse along with charcoal. The charcoal supplies minus ion, which prevent the oil from oxidized and noodle from deteriorated, and further more align gluten or the heart of the noodle. As the result of all of these effects, noodle is aged with resilience.

Foods produced under Miso-han's strict quality control are delivered through department stores or co-op stores throughout the country. We produce various types of noodles such as Japanese vermicelli, Japanese wheat noodle, cold noodle and buckwheat noodle, and natural salt, processed marine products of Nagasaki, chemical-free vegetables, agricultural processed products (i.e., pickled vegetables), tofu, flavoring materials, etc. Our oversea business division operates mainly in Asia to procure foodstuff that is difficult to find out in Japan. In particular, in under development countries, the division tied with local companies and tries to promote various local industries by presenting directions of the way of production, management and marketing.
Domestically, we always run our business under an outstanding and flexible strategy to be able to respond to the consumer's demands. For example, we strictly screen materials and keep high quality and rich taste so as to satisfy customers who are looking for true things. Our company is shown below.

"Umi ha Inochi(Ocean is our life)" Co. Ltd.

"Umi ha Inochi" Co. Ltd. produces and delivers natural salt, "Umi ha Inochi" and other related products. The salt dried in salt field has no longer available in Japan due to the contamination of seawater, but in Mexico the solar salt is still produced using only natural energy of sun and wind. We screen Mexican solar salt repeatedly and mix with domestically produced bittern (mineral) fished out of clean seawater near Sakito-shima island of Nagasaki-ken, to make it the closest ingredient balance as water sea. Then the salt is recrystallized in flat iron pot which is, in case of our company, not open but fully concealed to prevent foreign materials from mixed in. The salt "Umi ha Inochi" is boiled slowly at low temperature in our uniquely designed flat iron pot, and its crystal looks like thin and crumby fish scale (or flake) with large superficial area (see attached picture).

The characteristics of the natural salt "Umi ha Inochi" are as follows. The different better taste is supplied.

  • No strong and sharp taste but mellow.
  • Bring out the full flavor of foodstuff and keep its taste and color longer with very high osmotic pressure.
  • As the crystal of the salt is in flake shape, it is easy to adhere to foodstuff and required quantity is 20% less than other regular types of salt.
  • The required quantity of chemical additive or antioxidant can be reduced to 50%.
  • As the aging of foodstuff is accelerated, the duration towards the delivery date can be shorten and the running cost can be reduced.
  • As the velocity of dissolution is twice as fast as other types of natural salt or regular salt and hard to coagulate, productivity is improved and product dispersion is eliminated.

JMC Co. Ltd.

JMC produces and delivers cosmetics and imports and delivers foodstuff. "Virgin salt" (beautification salt) is a new type of beauty pack for face and body. Since it contains natural minerals with similar balance of components of human's body fluid, it gives tender feeling for skin. This salt is developed after long-term studies under the concept of Thelassa Therapy (coined terms of Thalassa (marine in Greek) and Therapie in French, named by a French doctor, Le Bona De Ale in 1876, called marine therapy in Japan). Its main ingredient is fine powder salt obtained by grinding natural salt "Umi ha Inochi" as well as other ingredients, i.e., egg white and hummer for high moisturizing action, sea weed essence, royal jelly, vitamin C. JMC delivers "Virgin salt" through department stores or mail ordering system.

"Tsuchi ha Inochi(Soil is our life)" Ltd.

"Tsuchi ha Inochi" Ltd. manages plants with BMW technique to promote environment protection oriented agriculture closely tied with the attributes of individual local area.
In the nature world, dead bodies of animals and leaves become water and soil through bacterial (microorganism's) decomposition. Microorganism (bacteria) is in the center of "ecosystem recycling mechanism" produced by the natural depuration effect. BMW is a technique that is referencing this mechanism and activates microorganisms at proper balance to produce "healthy water" and "healthy soil" for human and creatures. The ideal recycling agriculture can be achieved by such a way that healthy domestic animals are brought up using water and soil produced by bacterial decomposition, then animals' feces and urine become barnyard manure. As a result, the usage of agrochemical can be reduced in cultivating agriculture and domestic animals become healthy and no need of antibiotics administration in livestock farm.
"Tsuchi ha Inochi" produces "activated water for human and creature " that is refined by BMW technique.

Agricultural Production Corporation "Nagasaki Environment Protection Oriented Farm"

Agricultural Production Corporation "Nagasaki Environment Protection Oriented Farm" targets a future style of bright agricultural life which keeps a friendly manner with, and primarily based on the coexistence of, the earth and human. Currently the environmental hormone or dioxin is concerned about, and instead of such kind of agricultural chemical and chemical fertilizer, we aggressively exploit the potential of the nature and our innovative technologies (BMW technology and cyclical form in agriculture) so as to produce "safe", "tasty" and "healthy" crops.

We have spent a lot of time and studied seriously, not from the national government point of view but from private sector's view, on food crisis and genetically modified crop issues, as well as environmental hormone or dioxin, that may cause the destruction of all lives on the earth. "Nagasaki Environment Protection Oriented Farm" was founded as the result of such our efforts. We do our best for the future of our country, keeping our motto of producing "safe", "tasty" and "healthy" crops to take our life over the future generations. "Nagasaki Environment Protection Oriented Farm" has just taken its first step to tomorrow's new agriculture in Japan.

Matsunaga-Menko Ltd.

The company was founded in 1984 and currently thirteen professional craftsmen produce noodles to best fit to particular area and season with strictly chosen materials. The company is capable of producing two hundreds and seventy tons of noodles a year, ranked at middle among other pasta production factories in Nagasaki.

The noodles produced by Matsunaga-Menko is made of strictly chosen domestic wheat, natural salt "Umi ha Inochi" and spring water taken from spiritual Mt. Unzen. It has tasty body and special smoothest eating quality can be felt at gullet. The main type of noodle products is dry noodle, but its factory has a clean room to produce semi-dry noodles and the company is making his best to satisfy consumers any kind of preference. The noodles are delivered through co-op stores and department stores that have high standard of quality and food management.


MISOHAN Co,Ltd.
2905-1 Harao Ariake-cho MinamiTakaki-gun Nagasaki-ken, Japan 859-2123
Tel : 0957-82-1111 Fax : 0957-82-1104
E-mail:info@misohan.com