HOKUTO

Hokuto Corporation is Japan's largest mushroom producer, specializing in the research, development, cultivation, and sale of specialty mushroom varieties including Bunashimeji (beech mushroom), Maitake, Eryngii (king oyster mushroom), and other functional fungi. The company's Mushroom General Research Institute has developed numerous hit varieties and cultivars over decades of agricultural biotechnology work. Hokuto's products are distributed across Japan and internationally through subsidiaries including Hokto Malaysia and operations in North America. Headquartered in Nagano Prefecture, Hokuto operates as a publicly listed agri-biotech company (TSE: 1379) with the largest market share in Japan's commercial mushroom cultivation industry.