Brand's products POLESTAR

Pole Star is a long-established manufacturer of condiments and sauces, and the creator of Higashimurayama's yakisoba noodles with squid ink, a famous local dish.

Founded in 1850, company began by brewing soy sauce under the Sakurai brand.

Around 100 years after its foundation, supermarkets began to spring up all over Japan.

This changed the demand for industrial food products, putting artisanal products at a disadvantage.

In 1977, our artisan took the name Pole Star and specialized in making sauces and condiments from carefully selected ingredients, without the use of any colorants or additives.

Two products stood out: yakiniku sauce with a base of home-brewed soy sauce (high quality and very expensive at the time, but it sold well thanks to the cooperation of a familiar miso wholesaler and the sympathy of the company's customers) and Higashimurayama's yakisoba stir-fried noodle black sauce with squid ink (also made with black sake, a specialty of Kagoshima Prefecture). This suave, spicy and richly flavored sauce is used by around a hundred restaurants in the city, and is a firm fixture in everyday dishes).

By 1978, Japan was in the midst of a period of growth in the restaurant industry.

Most meals at home were becoming westernized, and demand for specific sauces was growing. Pole Star converted from the soy sauce brewing industry to the manufacture of complete seasonings. 

Today, company manufactures 250 types of seasoning a year, from products for home use to those for professional use, while maintaining a particular ethic: 

- To produce only delicious sauces 

- Focus on raw materials, manufacturing and quality control to maintain reasonable prices.