111 articles
Japanese market
Exports to Japan and Japan–Vietnam agricultural relations
Japanese market– category –
Exports to Japan and Japan–Vietnam agricultural relations
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Vietnamese scallops become Japan's largest buyer: how a processing hub opens a new sourcing route
ベトナム産ホタテの輸出が、日本の水産バイヤーにとって無視できない存在になってきた。ベトナム水産物加工輸出協会（VASEP）によれば、2025年のホタテ輸出額は約6,600万ドルで前年の4,400万ドルから49%増加。さらに2026年に入って勢いは加速し、最初の2カ... -
The era of Japan merely buying is ending; Japan and Vietnam enter a stage of circulating raw material to each other in seafood
ベトナムの水産業と日本の取引が、「売る・買う」の一方通行から抜け出しつつある。ベトナム産のエビやイカを日本が年15〜17億ドル分買い続ける一方で、ベトナム側も日本産のホタテやブリを原料として仕入れ、自国の工場で加工し直す動きが広がっている。... -
Vietnamese durian farmers who earn tree by tree: Japan's procurement map changes
ベトナム産ドリアンの供給を語るとき、日本のバイヤーは省や輸出企業の単位で産地を見がちだ。だが実際に品質を左右しているのは、畑の一本一本をどう管理するかという生産者の技術水準にある。フンイエン省から中部高原へ移り住み、コーヒーで9年苦しんだ... -
Vietnamese produce's 3.65-billion-dollar first half: why Japan's sourcing moves beyond fresh
ベトナム農業環境省は、2026年上半期の青果（野菜・果実）輸出額が36.5億ドル、前年同期比17.8%増に達したと明らかにした。数字だけを見れば順調な右肩上がりだが、日本の食品バイヤーや輸入商社が読むべきは総額ではなく中身の変化だ。生鮮ドリアンやバナ... -
A second irradiation technology for the US; Vietnam's Toan Phat breaks down the wall to fruit exports
米国農務省の動植物検疫局（APHIS）が7月上旬、ベトナム・タイニン省のトアンファット照射工場（TPI）に対し、ガンマ線とX線という2つの照射技術を並行して運用する認可を与えた。対米輸出向けの果実照射施設が2技術を同時に使えるのはベトナムで初めてで... -
Top shrimp company Minh Phu makes its move: a new Ca Mau plant that changes Japanese procurement
On June 28, 2026, in Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the major shrimp processor Minh Phu Group's new plant, the "Minh Phu Khanh An Seafood Processing Plant," officially came online. The investment is about 1.5 trillion dong (about US$57 million, about 8.8 billion yen; at the time of writing, roughly 155 yen to the dollar and about 60 yen to 10,000 dong... -
Kura Sushi's white fish was catfish — how pangasius became a Japanese staple
The white-fish topping gliding along the conveyor-belt sushi lane turns out to be catfish raised in the Mekong Delta. On July 5, 2026, the Vietnamese fisheries trade magazine Vietfish Magazine reported that Vietnamese pangasius (basa) has penetrated Japan's white-fish consumption to the point of ranking second only to Alaska pollock fillets. Processed food... -
Hundreds of varieties of desert rose: a young Dong Nai man names the Japanese horticulture market
A young man in Dong Nai province in southern Vietnam, through self-taught crossbreeding, has bred the adenium—called the "desert rose" (local name Su)—into hundreds of distinct varieties, selling roughly 200 pots a day. What cannot be overlooked in this case, reported by Vietnamese agricultural media, is that his next target is... -
A major shrimp producer heads into Japanese sushi toppings with tilapia, a new source of white fish
Vina Clean Food, a major shrimp exporter in Soc Trang, has made its first shipment to Japan of monosex-tilapia fillets for sushi and sashimi. We unpack this new white-fish supply source, stood up in six months, from the perspective of Japanese seafood buyers. -
Stopping illegal fishing trips with 2,100 phone calls: An Giang province hones its catch management
An Giang province used about 2,100 warning phone calls over six months to urge fishing vessels that had lost communication to comply with fishing rules. We read how the tightened management of Vietnamese wild-caught seafood, moving toward the lifting of the EU yellow card, affects the reliability of Japanese sourcing.
