In 1925 our founder Ichiro Akiyama established Akiyama Laboratories, the predecessor of Akiyama Jozai, in a spirit of public service under the slogan "diligence and courage." Since then, with many years of support from our valued customers, we have come through a number of trials and have accumulated valuable experience.

Steeped in this idea, we must express our profound gratitude to many people. In the spirit of our founder, together with all our employees, we provide high quality, high standard products while continuing to earn your favor under the basic concept of always having our own will actively creating it and providing it in various forms.

To this end, we unflaggingly strive in research and development to further improve our drug making technology. Since our founding, we have continued, as a matter of course, to be sticklers for quality. Nowadays, GMP (good manufacturing practice) is legally in force in the pharmaceutical, and with product liability law in force as well, it is more than ever a matter of course to maintain pharmaceuticals at a prescribed level of quality. We consider it a paramount task to ensure such quality and take it as a permanent focus of our efforts. A baseball pitcher should be dependable in dealing with easy grounders and fly balls, rather than making spectacular plays with defending fielders. This is like our philosophy of being dependable and thorough about the obvious. We are always working for "sure plays, rather than showboating." We ask for your continued guidance and watchful encouragement.