Founded in 1958, we are one the leading manufacture of houseware products in Japan, providing better life style to our customers.

Catch the Moment, Create the Future

We can do more. Kokubo is a company that quickly identifies the needs of the times and continuously pushes the creativity envelop to shape the future.

Regardless of product genre, we at Kokubo view the issues and trends that define the next generation of manufactures as calls to exhaust every effort to change from manufacturing to creating as a way of business. This creativity as a way of business tells us to quickly identify the needs embedded in the various life situations in everyday living, propose new product values to end-users and secondary markets, and shape the future.

The products we deliver to the world have a backdrop of casual everyday life. Precisely for that reason, we have to be customer and consumer-oriented, and nimbly react to market changes. In this regard, we proactively train human resources on the belief that manufacturing in the sense of making something means to first shape the people who make it, and dedicate efforts and resources to making consumer-centric products. We firmly believe in the concept of an ideal company that is needed by society for the way it supports consumers in their efforts to lead a more convenient and comfortable lifestyle.

Getting more out of life

Adding effort to just a single idea delivers high value-added products to consumers around the world.

In the quest to produce original products, Kokubo does all internally from conceiving ideas to adding something special and turning that into a products. Ideas: Innovative ideas are born only after making it a practice to see things through the consumer's eyes.

Planning Development: Planning and development meetings are held to share ideas into products.

Design: Design is an important process, therefore professional staff at Kokubo take care of it.

Prototyping: The product is finalized through a series of tests necessary to evaluate safety, durability, etc.

Production: The product is produced on a highly efficient line under the scrutiny of personnel to ensure quality.

Kokubo has four original brands that it tailors to use and diversifying consumers needs. Group compnay Kiyou Jochugiku Co., Ltd. Dpes a wide range of business related to living.

Ribbon House: Stylish convenient living on themes of amenities and ecology.

Liclue: Products with overseas features.

C.time: Pioneering the care market on a theme of beautiful healthy skin.

Dr. Mother: Hygiene support for families and lifestyles on a healthy theme.

Kiyou Jochugiku Co., Ltd.: Pursuing new possibilities with beauty and health via mosquito coils, bath products, etc.

We have decades of trading experience with numerous major wholesalers to retailers. Also, our OEM agreements with several renowned companies and turned many ideas into products show that our long track record is a proof of our reliability.

Kokubo is enthusiastically developing business not only in Asia, having opened two local subsidiaries in Shanghai, China, but has also secured operating bases in the west in recent years. The company continues moving forward without stopping to make made by Kokubo products useful to people around the world. We are aslo aware that the business has to show consideration for the environment. That's why Kokubo adopted eco-friendly cars for the corporate fleet. Doing what we can first, we will continue to seek ways to help protect the environment.