About JFOODO | The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center (JFOODO) - Japan External Trade Organization

JFOODO (The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center) was established by the Japanese government in 2017 as part of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) with the aim of boosting the export of Japanese agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products by branding them and promoting them widely around the world.

JFOODO was named with the hope and vision of increasing awareness of Japanese Food and winning fans for it all over the world, in the same way that other Japanese cultures do.

In Japanese, the kanji character「道」(read as “dō”) literally means “the way” or “the code.” In addition to world-renowned Japanese arts such as bushido (武士道, or “the way of the warrior”), kendo (剣道, or “the way of the sword”), and sado (茶道, or “The way of tea”), JFOODO aims to promote “the way of food” together with Japanese culture. Culture can be translated as 「風土」(“fudo”) in Japanese, which sounds and rhymes with “JFOODO".

Business Operation

Integrated marketing communication for focused products to countries/areas determined by government strategy.
Provision of information on overseas markets.
Provision of information on business practices of overseas markets.
Provision of business assistance in overseas markets by local field marketers.

Profile

President KOBAYASHI Eizo
COO NAKAYAMA Isamu
CAO KITAGAWA Hironobu
Director-General TAKAHASHI Yoshitoku
Date of establishment April 1, 2017
Background November 2016 : The “Agricultural Competitiveness Strengthening Program“ was approved by the Cabinet Office of the government of Japan in which the launch of a new organization specializing in the branding and promotion of Japanese food products, and support for Japanese exporters was determined.
December 2016 : 15 organizations including the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, JETRO and Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) signed a partnership agreement for strengthening the comprehensive support for the export of Japanese agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products
Address Ark Mori Building, 12-32, Akasaka 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6006 Japan
E-mail: JFA@jetro.go.jp
Tel: +81-3-3582-8344

Organization Chart

The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion center (JFOODO) is an institution, established within JETRO, specialized in promoting Japanese agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products. JFOODO is separated into two functions under the president: Promotion Function and General Affairs/Management Function.The part responsible for general affairs and public relation function is the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and under the CAO is the executive director. The overseas promotion planning division is located under the executive director. The overseas promotion planning division mainly conducts “Office work summary and coordination”, “Business management planning”, “Budget execution management” and “External public relations”. The part responsible for the promotion function is the Chief Operating Officer (COO). The Overseas promotion business division is located under the COO. The Overseas promotion business division mainly conducts “Promotion business” and “Surveys and information analysis/provision.”The Overseas promotion business division also works in collaboration with Domestic field marketers at JETRO’s domestic offices, overseas expatriates at JETRO’s overseas offices, and overseas field marketers. The duties of domestic field marketers, expatriates and overseas field marketers are as follows. Domestic field marketers: Liaison and coordination with businesses operators. Expatriates: Promotion Support and overseas market information analysis.Overseas field marketers: Information provision towards business operators, participation promotion of JFOODO’s business towards local retailors and restaurants.

*Specialized Agency for Export and Promotion of Japanese Agricultural, Forestry Fishery and Food Products within JETRO

Message from President

KOBAYASHI Eizo
President

Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center (JFOODO) within the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) was established in 2017 as a new organization to take charge of consumer promotion to brand Japanese agricultural, forestry, and marine products and food.

During this period, the importance of Japan's policy to promote exports of agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products has been increasing, and in 2020, the Cabinet decided to set export value targets of 2 trillion yen by 2025 and 5 trillion yen by 2030.
In order to achieve this goal, the "Action Strategy for Expanding the Export of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foods" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Strategy") was agreed upon at the Ministerial Meeting in 2020 and has been further revised.
In the Action Strategy, JFOODO is expected to strengthen overseas local structure to play a role of introducing and leading consumption of Japan’s agricultural, forestry, and fishery products and food products by conveying the attractiveness to consumers in expanding overseas markets.

In order to meet the growing expectations for JFOODO, we will actively endeavor to keep introducing products in new fields, by new approaches.
While respecting the opinions of private business operators, we at JFOODO are committed to branding Japanese products and promoting them to the world with a new spirit, in a joint public private sector effort.

We want to make Japanese producers, and consumers around the world, happy by promoting superior Japanese products.
Please stay tuned to our new approach.

Our Logo

The logo of JFOODO consists of 47 dots,
which is the number of prefectures in Japan.
The size of the dots are representative of the size of each prefecture. These dots are combined and enclosed in a circle, expressing JFOODO’s commitment to collaborate with all 47 prefectures.

Our Focus (FY2022)

Japanese Seafood Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA
Japanese Wagyu USA / Europe
Japanese Green Tea USA / Europe
Japanese Rice Flour USA
Japanese Rice Hong Kong
Japanese Sake China / USA / Hong Kong / Singapore / France / UK
Japanese Sho-chu USA
Japanese Wine Hong Kong