The washoku traditional dietary culture of the Japanese has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It has also been drawing attention as a healthy style of food and attracting a great deal of interest all over the world. The one thing that is indispensable to washoku is “dashi.” The umami taste of dashi brings a more delicious and pleasant taste to the dining tables. However, it is time consuming to extract dashi from bonito shavings and kombu. That's why we came up with the idea of putting the dashi into the soy sauce. In 1965, we commercialized " Dashi Soy Sauce" as a product. Inheriting that same spirit of caring for our loved ones, it is our hope to continue delivering this unchanging deliciousness to dinner tables the world over.
Dashi Soy Sauce, known for its rich flavor, is a perfect blend of brewed soy sauce and ichiban dashi (first stock) made from the finest kombu as well as mackerel and bonito shavings.
Dashi Soy Sauce, as a pioneer in the industry, came into being in 1965. For more than 50 years, it has been loved as a long-selling product, preserving the taste and the flavor of the ingredients.
When Dashi Soy Sauce was first invented, it was taken for granted that the dashi needed to be prepared fresh for each use. It had yet to be established as a processed product.
With Dashi Soy Sauce, there is no need to create dashi from scratch to enjoy a delicious meal. In order to share Dashi Soy Sauce throughout Japan, we have developed the technology of extracting umami and flavor from the finest ingredients.
In 1999, we successfully developed our "original whole smoked salmon" joinly with Hokkaido Tokachi Regional Food Processing Technology Center. It is made from buna salmon which has low utilization after spawning. Since then, we began to use our "original whole smoked salmon" as an ingredient in our dashi.
We have always valued the spirit of "make the best quality soy sauce, serve society and earn trust." We continue to produce soy sauce products while responding to trend changes in food culture. We introduced state-of-art equipment and management, as well as establishing stable quality and supply control systems.
We take particular care with quality control. We obtained and implement ISO 9001 certification, an international quality standard, to continuously improve our product quality and customer satisfaction.
We have acquired HACCP certification, which is assessed by third-party, at Main and Minato factories. We are committed to progress in food safety.
To ensure that our products contain no radioactive materials, our ingredients and products are tested daily for radioactivity by inspectors who have passed the Radioactive Material Measurement Proficiency Test.
We only ship products that meet or exceed these strict standards.
We continue to work together as one to achieve the great taste, safety, security and stable suppy.
When people hear Kamada Soy Sauce, they think of "paper cartons." Our paper cartons, which are now the standard, were created in 1987. In the early 1980s, bottles of glass or plastic were very common. Our small-sized, easily-disposable and unbreakable paper cartons began to spread throughout Japan as a revolutionary product that includes a sophisticated and unique design.
In developing this carton, we were particularly interested in making sure that it would not leak. In 1996, we worked with a packaging material manufacturer to develop the food industry’s first paper carton with a cap spout. After that, we continued development of unique spouts in response to customer requests: 2004 saw the 500-ml paper carton with a one-touch cap spout, and 2014 saw the introduction of the current 200-ml carton with a new spill-resistant cap. We will continue our ground-breaking research to produce even better packaging.
The differently-colored "Tamari" marks are used to distinguish the difference in packaging. This mark was based on the shape of soy sauce when poured into a bowl. It originated with the designer's passion to create an innovative design that was unprecedented and represented a pleasant surprise for our customers. Today, the Tamari mark remains unchanged, and is a familiar presence for people both in Japan and overseas.
