It was in 1950 that Founder Tanaka first met with the late Mr. Noboru Nagamatsu, the founder of Yakult.
Having lost his parents at an early age, Founder Tanaka keenly felt the need to establish a healthier society and saw this as his life mission.
The encounter with Mr. Nagamatsu was nothing less than fateful.
For it marked the start of a major project of discovering health applications for microalgae.