{"id":2391,"date":"2025-07-17T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.tradepia.co.jp\/?page_id=2391"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:03:08","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/en\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c79daa8071ee79b8e35dd0599e888c24\">History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-vivid-red-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"table-responsive\">\n<table class=\"table\" style=\"height: 494px;\" summary=\"\u6cbf\u9769\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">Dec 1988<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Yuji Matsushita founded Tradepia Co., Ltd. in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture, with capital of 10.5 million yen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">1992<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started exporting SCP (Shark cartilage) from Maruha Co., Ltd. to the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">1995<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of Garcinia Cambogia (Citrimax), a weight loss ingredient.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 32px; width: 15.4306%;\">1996<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 32px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of Pycnogenol<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (French maritime pine bark extract) from Horphag Research in Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">1997<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of soy isoflavones from Schouten (now Frutarom\/IFF) in the Netherlands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 32px; width: 15.4306%;\">2000<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 32px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started\u00a0import and sales of Pycnogenol<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> as a cosmetic ingredient<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">Mar 2001<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Relocated office to Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">2004<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of alpha-lipoic acid, L-carnitine, bilberry extract, astaxanthin, and lutein.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 32px; width: 15.4306%;\">Sep 2009<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 32px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of BLIS K12<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (Salivary streptococcus K12) from BLIS Technologies in New Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 32px; width: 15.4306%;\">Dec 2012<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 32px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of BLIS M18<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (Salivary streptococcus M18) from BLIS Technologies in New Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 61px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 61px; width: 15.4306%;\">May 2016<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 61px; width: 84.3989%;\">Masafumi Matsushita appointed President and Representative Director<br \/>Yuji Matsushita appointed Representative Director and Chairman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 32px; width: 15.4306%;\">Jan 2017<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 32px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of Robuvit<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (French oak extract) from Hofer Research in Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 63px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 63px; width: 15.4306%;\">2019<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 63px; width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of C-Fence\u2122 (Time-release vitamin C powder) and TurmXTRA<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>60N (Highly absorbable turmeric extract) from Nutriventia in India as their exclusive distributor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%; height: 30px;\">Feb 2022<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%; height: 30px;\">Increase capital to 30 million yen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%; height: 32px;\">Apr 2022<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%; height: 32px;\">Food with Functional Food claim accepted for joint function with TurmXTRA<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>60N<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%; height: 32px;\">Nov 2023<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%; height: 32px;\">Food with Functional Food claim accepted for Women&#8217;s Common Complaints with Pycnogenol<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%; height: 32px;\">Apr 2024<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%; height: 32px;\">Food with Functional Food claim accepted for reducing fatigue with TurmXTRA<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>60N<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 32px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%; height: 32px;\">May 2025<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%; height: 32px;\">Food with Functional Food claim accepted for reducing fatigue with TurmXTRA<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>60N\uff08PRISMA 2020 Compliant\uff09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%;\">Aug 2025<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%;\">Started import and sales of GlycOmega<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (Green Lipped Mussle powder\/oil) from Aroma in New Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 15.4306%;\">Oct 2025<\/th>\n<td style=\"width: 84.3989%;\">Food with Functional Food claim accepted for joint function with TurmXTRA<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>60N\uff08PRISMA 2020 Compliant\uff09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<th style=\"height: 30px; width: 15.4306%;\">\u00a0<\/th>\n<td style=\"height: 30px; width: 84.3989%;\">to the present<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History Dec 1988 Yuji Matsushita founded Tradepia Co., Ltd. in Kasukabe City, Sa [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2385,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-english.php","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/tp.ymz.jp\/?page_id=52","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391\/revisions\/2726"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradepia.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}