- CEO
- Naozumi Ashikaga
- Full Time Employees
- 887
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: specialty/candy
- Address
- 7-3-9, Shoko-center Hiroshima HI Japan 733-8677
- IPO Date
- Dec 1, 1990
- Business
- Ahjikan Co., Ltd. manufactures, sells, and wholesales processed food products in Japan, with a focus on egg-based items, vegetable preparations, fish paste products, and agricultural goods; its core offerings include cooked eggs for sushi such as tamagoyaki and kinshi tamago, imitation crab meat (kanikama and surimi products like seafood legstick), cooked and marinated vegetables, seasoned bamboo shoots, burdock tea-related products, processed tofu, and frozen sushi fillings including oboro and minced fish. The company operates through commercial food and health food segments, serving foodservice providers, retailers, and health-conscious consumers primarily in Japan while maintaining international subsidiaries in China (Shandong Ahjikan Food, Ahjikan Guangzhou Food Management, and AK Foods Qingdao for processed agricultural products and sushi ingredients), Hong Kong (for import-export of foodstuffs and alcohol), and affiliates for farming and logistics in Japan and the United States. Founded in October 1962 and established in March 1965, Ahjikan maintains its head office in Hiroshima City, Japan. In recent developments, the company launched GOVOCE Milk, a burdock-based sweet resembling chocolate, on November 1, 2025, and received short-chain fatty acid certification for its roasted burdock product in September 2025 to support gut health initiatives; it also revised its fiscal year 2026 earnings forecast downward on November 4, 2025, citing rising raw material costs including eggs due to avian influenza impacts, higher labor and logistics expenses, projecting a 44% decline in operating profit to 1.1 billion yen despite stable sales around 51 billion yen.