In the Japanese market, soybeans have long been indispensable to the daily diet of Japanese people, as the raw material for foods such as miso, natto and tofu. Soybeans products have widened their variety for instance meeting consumer’s needs or adding high value to the products to make meet of the worlds changing needs as you can see for example, nowadays, soy isoflavone and soybean peptide are coming into spotlight. Because of these efforts to raise demand of soybeans of the soybean product industry, consumption of soybeans in Japan is transitioning steadily around 1,000,000 tons per year these years.

 However, Japan relies almost all of it’s soybeans consumption on import and approximately 80% of it comes from the U.S.. Imported soybeans’ prices experiences large swings according to it’s growing conditions of major soybean producing countries such as the U.S. and Brazil, or the consumption amount of China which consumes a large amount of soybeans.