When the previous president, Yukisuke Noda, visited Taiwan to conduct a preliminary survey for planting Japanese wax trees, he noticed that farmers in southern Taiwan were struggling to dispose of onions that were too small or too large to meet the size standards for export to Japan, as onions were not a common food in the region.
Therefore, in 1972, he built a new factory in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, to collect all the onions before they were thrown away and to process them into high-quality vegetable extracts. The new factory not only successfully solved the problem of onions piling up in the fields, rotting and emitting a terrible odor, causing great distress to farmers, but also contributed to the development of the food industry by developing high-quality vegetable extracts for yakiniku sauce and instant ramen soup, which were becoming popular in Japan at the time.

Insects are the most diverse living organisms, with millions of species and having existed for hundreds of millions of years. However, apart from honeybees and silkworms that are familiar to us in our daily lives, and rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles that children love, most insects are merely annoying "nuisances" and are always targeted for "killing" with pesticides

Japanese tradition is a civilization that "makes the most" of scarce resources. It comprehensively utilizes all kinds of materials, using them completely without waste. Furthermore, it applies ingenuity in daily life, creatively expanding the range of their uses step by step. And, like a grandmother's rice bran bag, love is infused into these processes, resulting in the creation of many flavorful and vibrant products.
With this uniquely Japanese spirit, research began on the scale insect, a representative pest, shifting from the traditional idea of ​​"killing" it to a "making the most of" approach, which became part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' insect industry project. This research eventually led to a collaborationCERARICANODA and the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences, becoming the first JICA project in China's forestry sector, aiming to alleviate China's difficulties. The result was the creation of Royal Wax/Snow Wax.

Cuba is known as a country of sugar, and historically, sugarcane has been cultivated in abundance. During the American colonial era, in addition to producing sugar, they also industrialized the sugarcane wax industry, which was a byproduct. After the Cuban Revolution, they focused on sugar production, and the sugarcane wax industry was forgotten. The
Cuban government requested our cooperation on a sugarcane wax project, and on the first day of my visit, Director Lou of the Ministry of Sugar, Cuba's largest ministry, suddenly came to my hotel room. After about two hours of passionate discussion, we both resonated with our company's dream of enriching the local people with "Life Wax =CERARICA," and I proposed that we revive sugarcane wax production together with the Cuban government, as Life Wax is a very promising resource that can be used in high-tech fields. Director Lou promised the Cuban Ministry of Sugar to fully cooperate, saying, "Go ahead and do it the way you envision, President Noda."
Our company president, having been invited to lunch by a top Cuban government official, witnessed their unvarnished lifestyle and their honest and sincere attitude of prioritizing equality alongside the people. Before we knew it, he had become a big fan of Cuba, and we proceeded to advance the Sugarcane Project between Japan and Cuba.

The day my father passed away coincided with the day the Vietnam War ended, and our company president, who had had a strong interest in Vietnam since his student days, heard that the world-renowned American scholar Vu Teng Phan would be giving a lecture at a meeting of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association, so he visited the venue. After the lecture, we were able to speak to him about the " CERARICA Concept."

, a life wax company,CERARICAwhich aims to improve the environment by adopting a unique approach of "making use of insects" rather than killing and utilizing them, and for its commitment to lifting poor people in production areas out of poverty
and realizing prosperity. This vision was brought to life by the passionate enthusiasm of Mr. Phan, who is also the president of the Vietnam Academy of SciencesCERARICAis extremely beneficialCERARICAbringing together top-level research institute directors in

"Zero Emission" is a future concept proposed by the United Nations University in the 1990s, modeled after ecosystems and aiming to eliminate waste by skillfully combining industries from various production sectors, thereby utilizing waste generated from individual corporate activities as resources for other industries.
At the United Nations University's "Zero Emission World Conference" (attended by President De Souza, proponents Fridtjof Capra, and Gunta Pauli), our company president was invited and passionately spoke about how "CERARICA= Life Wax," born from the workings of nature and a virtuous cycle, is essentially a gift from life that realizes the ideal of "zero emissions" (forests produce no waste), receiving strong support from the proponents.
moving away from the modern "killing research" and adopting a "life-saving approach."CERARICAAt a lecture held around the same time by Daniel Bell, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Fridtjof Capra, F. CapraCERARICAhighly praised

We have been conducting research on high-quality beeswax in collaboration with the Institute of Honeybee Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Regarding beeswax, in 1995, at the International Federation of Beekeeping Societies (APIMONDIA) World Congress held in Vancouver, our company called upon member countries around the world to hold the "World's No. 1 Beeswax Contest," announcing that beeswax, as a high-tech material, would significantly improve the recording performance of compact discs. At the same time, this became a major catalyst for revitalizing the global beekeeping industry by emphasizing beeswax, a by-product that had been neglected in the beekeeping industry until then, as a resource of the future.