About Us
Message
Hanroku Higuchi, father-in-law of Toichi Kagami, the Company's first president, was engaged in a wide range of businesses including railroads and transportation in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, and established Hiyoshi Kaisoten in 1914 in Ota-machi, Yokohama because he foresaw that Japan, a small country with few natural resources, would undoubtedly become a trading nation, and decided that port-related businesses would be essential.
In the more than 100 years since our founding, we have steadily developed our business by overcoming earthquakes, damage sustained during the Second World War, and rapidly changing social and economic conditions with the aim of being a sincere company that is trusted by our clients.
We are developing and operating the "Dehokan-soko system" for bulk contracting of on-premises operations and just-in-time delivery of steelmaking raw materials, etc., and are aggressively entering fields that are expected to grow in the future as well as port-related businesses, responding flexibly to rapid social, economic and industrial changes and our customers' business strategies and tactics. In addition, the entire company is working to create a corporate structure that anticipates changes in the environment surrounding the port-related business and creates new business opportunities. In order to continuously provide high quality services that satisfy our customers, we have acquired ISO 9001 certification and are working hard on our human resource development system. At the same time, the Kimitsu Warehouse Management Platform System was upgraded as the first step in a company-wide DX project.
With the trust and technology we have built up over the past 100 years, all of our employees are determined to do their utmost to meet the needs of our customers and continue to be a reliable and faithful company. Hence, we sincerely ask for your continued guidance, encouragement and patronage.
Koichi Kagami, President/C.E.O.
Management Philosophy
- I. Our Philosophy
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To satisfy our customers, be loved by the community, and continue to grow over time, we will conduct our business operations with excellence through trustworthy teamwork and a bright, safe workplace.
- II. Our Principles
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- We will continue to provide excellent products and thoughtful services that satisfy our customers over a long period of time.
- Based on education that develops individual characteristics and creativity, and fair evaluation, we will create a workplace that values ethics, emphasizes the basics, and allows employees to work autonomously and fulfill their work and dreams.
- With the belief of "Innovation every day," we will not be bound by the status quo, and will strive for continuous improvement and reform with creativity and a spirit of challenge to achieve a lasting increase in productivity.
- We will achieve comprehensive accident-free operations through continuous occupational health and safety education, thorough implementation of "5S" (Seiri (tidiness), Seiton (orderliness), Seiso (cleanliness), Seiketsu (neatness), and Shitsuke (discipline)), and compliance with the five principles of safe driving: (1) Strictly prohibition of driving under the influence of alcohol; (2) compliance with safe driving speed; (3) always slow down before a curve; (4) check traffic at intersections; and (5) stopping to ensure the safety of pedestrians crossing the street.
- We will engage in community-based corporate activities to contribute to its development and conserve the environment.
Origin of the Company Name
The name "Hiyoshi"
Company founder Mr. Hanroku Higuchi named the company after "Hiyoshi-maru," the childhood name of the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, based on the credo "those involved in business must be faithfully, not be naughtily to serve the customers."
Establishment of forwarding business "Kaisoten"
The term "Kaiso" (forwarder) is the abbreviated form of "Kaisen-unso". Large-scale wooden sail liners "Kaisen" engaged in shipping as early as the Muromachi period (1336-1573), and were ultimately replaced by steamships in the late Edo period (1603-1868). Kaisen then handled the transfer of cargo between these large steamships and piers that had no berthing facilities for large steamships,and this came to be known as "Kaisen-unso" (forwarding, or literally, shipping by Kaisen), and the "Kaisoten" (forwarding businesses) performed this task. Since the Meiji period (1868-1912), the role of the kaisen sail ships has gradually been taken over by barges.