EXHIBITORS & SPONSORS
Exhibitors & sponsors
The companies and organisations taking part in JIHE 2026, together with our speakers' organisations, supporting organisations, organiser and co-organiser.
Speaker and participating company information will be added progressively. As of 2 October 2026.
OFFICIAL SPONSORS
Official sponsors
Control Union Japan is part of a global testing, inspection and certification group with offices in more than 80 countries. In Japan it offers certification, laboratory testing and inspection services under one roof, covering fields such as sustainable agriculture, biomass fuel, textiles, plastics and aquaculture, and administers international programs including ISCC, GOTS and RSPO.
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KISEKI GROUP CORP., headquartered in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, develops plant factory technology. Its lineup includes the modular KISEKI GROW UNIT cultivation system, water treatment equipment and fertilizer supply equipment. The company also provides consulting across the whole project cycle, from crop selection and facility design through operation planning and staff training after a plant is completed.
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TrueImports is a subsidiary of Coast 2 Coast Consulting. Working with C-15 EQMS Solutions and p-Chip Technologies, it addresses the practical challenges of regulatory compliance in the international handling of cannabinoid products.
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Exhibitors
CBD Journey
Leep Inc. works across the wellness field, handling the planning, manufacturing and sale of products for physical and mental wellbeing in one integrated process under the message "Moving health forward." The company runs skew, its CBD vape brand offering liquids and pod devices formulated with cannabinoids.
RISE CBD was founded by a couple raising a daughter with epilepsy, drawing on their own experience as a family. As users of the products themselves, they take care in selecting every ingredient. Their products contain CBD and CBG, with carefully selected light sesame oil and Manno sunflower oil as base oils. The couple works directly with customers, from product development through support after purchase. They hope to put what they have learned, considered, and chosen for their daughter to use for children and the families supporting their daily lives, thinking alongside them as fellow parents and users.
VMC Inc., founded in Tokyo's Taito Ward in 2020, runs the cannabinoid brand VapeMania. The company plans and sells CBD products including liquids, oils, herbs and gummies, and reaches customers through its flagship store in Ueno, its Fukuoka store and its own online dispensary.
DropStone, Inc., established in Tokyo's Taito Ward in 2018, is a wholesaler of cannabinoid products. It supplies finished CBD and CBG goods, raw materials, vape devices and hemp foods to retailers, e-commerce operators and other businesses, handling 14 Japanese and overseas brands including its own Greeus, and also offers vending machine installations.
Medical Green Clinic opened in 2026 in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City, Japan. It is headed by Dr. Kosuke Hikita. The clinic offers a cannabinoid outpatient service and a general internal medicine service that handles health check-up consultations and second opinions. Patients can be seen either online or in person at the clinic.
Website: medicalgreenclinic420.comSpeakers from this organisation
CannaTech is a CBD manufacturer with an integrated business spanning raw material import, product planning, manufacturing, and sales. Our FSSC 22000-certified facility and in-house gummy production line enable us to offer a wide range of products, including gummies, oils, and vapes. We also supply CBD and CBG raw materials verified to contain no detectable THC.
PharmaHempJapan Co., Ltd., based in Fuji City, Shizuoka, is the authorised importer and distributor of CBD products manufactured by Pharma Hemp of Slovenia. Its range covers CBD oil drops, pastes, domestically produced gummies and balms. The company also supplies CBD raw materials and handles OEM production for other brands.
HEMP Journey
KCA Labs Japan LLC is the Japanese arm of KCA Laboratories, an independent third-party laboratory founded in Kentucky, USA in 2019. Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 and registered with Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a designated overseas laboratory, it analyses more than 70 cannabinoids as well as terpenes and contaminants such as residual solvents and heavy metals.
Website: kcalabs.co.jpSpeakers from this organisation
Anresco Japan is the Japanese office of Anresco Laboratories, an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory founded in San Francisco in 1943. Built on two pillars, more than 80 years of food testing experience and specialized hemp/CBD product testing, we offer everything from cannabinoid analysis aligned with Japan's THC residue limits to pesticide, heavy metal, and microbial testing, with Japanese-language support and online ordering.
A brand built around "ART OF HEMP", making clothing and goods from hemp materials that are kind to people and the planet. It also runs its own store, JUZU. At JIHE 2026 its products are on display at the medel deli kitchen booth on the 2nd floor.
A deli and cafe with shops in Ebisu and Okusawa, Tokyo. Under the belief that "food that is kind to people is also kind to the Earth", it serves food that nourishes body and mind while placing as little burden on the environment as possible. At JIHE 2026 it runs the kitchen booth on the 2nd floor, where the hemp apparel brand GOHEMP also displays its products.
Founded in 1910, Kotodo Takahashi Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in tea tin canisters. Drawing on more than a century of can-making expertise, we developed “MAMORU,” a highly airtight, odor-resistant Hard Lock canister inspired by the traditional Japanese tea canister. Its patented locking mechanism provides an audible “click” when securely closed, making it easy to confirm proper closure. MAMORU is designed to help contain odors and protect contents from moisture while preserving the craftsmanship and functionality of traditional Japanese can-making.
Plant Life Systems Co., Ltd. is a research and development company creating new value in plant production through technologies that control plant growth and beneficial compounds. Applying cultivation technologies developed for cherry tomatoes and summer strawberries to cannabis, it works to control the levels of beneficial compounds. Through research, development and commercialisation, the company aims to achieve high-quality, efficient production and a stable supply of CBD produced entirely in Japan, expanding the potential of the domestic CBD market with Japanese plant production technology.
The “Amatsu Sugaso Project” is a collaborative initiative involving industry, academia, and government, rooted in the history and culture of hemp that have been preserved in Meiwa Town, Mie Prefecture. The project aims to comprehensively promote the production of Ise hemp (Ise Asa), the preservation of traditional culture, agricultural development, the creation of new industries, tourism, and GX (Green Transformation). In Meiwa Town, Ise hemp is cultivated on public land and underutilized farmland. Through these efforts, the town seeks to preserve and pass on its hemp-related history and culture, establish hemp cultivation as a sustainable agricultural industry, foster the next generation of farmers, and promote the development of the local hemp industry.
Founded in 1736 in front of Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, Yawataya Isogoro is a long-established maker of shichimi togarashi (seven-spice blend). Its signature blend combines chilli pepper with sansho pepper and ginger, finished with hemp seed, sesame, dried citrus peel and shiso - hemp seed being one of the original seven ingredients. The company is based in Yanagimachi, Nagano City, and runs its main store together with the Yokocho Cafe, MIDORI Nagano, Karuizawa and AEON MALL Suzaka shops.
Website: yawataya.co.jpSpeakers from this organisation
The company supplies CBD ingredients and hemp fibre materials, with group operations spanning cultivation, processing, quality management and international trade. It also works on green transformation projects using industrial hemp. At JIHE 2026, it will exhibit in HEMP Journey.
Seishun Taima is the creator who heads Studio Aoharu, an animation studio in Japan. The studio engages with cannabis and psychedelics as subject matter, stating that it does not encourage their use but instead sheds light on the culture and philosophy around them and on new possibilities of perception, expressed through vivid colour and fluid animation.
NIHC is an advocate for the sustainable growth of the industrial hemp industry, creating domestic and international partnerships.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Bangkok, the Asia International Hemp Federation is a regional, industry-driven federation advancing the hemp and plant-based economy across Asia and beyond. It works at the intersection of trade, supply chain development, policy advocacy, sustainability and public education, connecting stakeholders across borders. AIHF is an official supporter of JIHE 2026.
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Sponsors
An importer and wholesaler of CBD and CBG raw materials, supporting companies in health foods, cosmetics and pet products with sourcing, quality checks, OEM work and product development.
Thai Stick Co., Ltd. is a Bangkok-based company founded in 2022 and headquartered in Silom. Under the line "Cannabis for Wellness through Mindful Cultivation," it grows cannabis in its own state-of-the-art hybrid greenhouse facility and says it focuses on mindful cultivation, community engagement and education. Thai Stick is one of the foremost exporters of medical cannabis from Thailand, and primarily focuses its export activities on markets such as Australia, Germany and Poland.
Website: thaistickinside.comSpeakers from this organisation
Keijikai Co., Ltd. was founded in 2021 by pharmacist Kaisei Arakawa and operates Ome Pharmacy, a dispensing pharmacy in Ome City, Tokyo. Alongside its pharmacy business, the company wholesales CBD and CBN raw materials, develops and sells its own CBD supplements, and supervises product formulation and OEM projects for other companies.
CANNABIS INSIGHT is a business and economic media outlet covering cannabis and CBD, operated by SETODEZA LLC, a company in Okayama, Japan that provides system development, website production and AI consulting. The media researches cannabis and CBD information worldwide and edits it for readers in Japan, publishing weekly cannabis news, listed-company analysis and country-by-country legalisation updates.
Nihon Dento Taima Hounoukai is a general incorporated association established in July 2024, with its office inside Amehikage-hime Shrine in Nakanoto, Ishikawa Prefecture. Its representative director is Yoshiyuki Honma. Under the theme of preparing the sacred grounds of prayer, it restores shrine bell ropes across Japan using domestic refined hemp and conducts purification rites at shrines and temples.
Founded in December 2022 and based in Nagoya, Grassland Trading LLC is a trading house specialising in CBD raw materials. Its line-up includes CBD, CBN and CBG isolates and broad-spectrum distillate, and the company covers the whole chain from procurement and import through customs clearance to door-to-door delivery, alongside wholesale and OEM work.
We are a Japan-based B2B wholesaler of CBD ingredients, supplying high-quality materials at some of the most competitive prices in the domestic market. Every lot is third-party lab tested and comes with a COA. We only handle ingredients that fully comply with Japanese regulations, with THC minimized to trace ppm levels. Our lineup also includes CBG, CBG-dominant CRD, H4CBD, and cannabis-derived terpenes (CDT), covering a wide range of applications such as vape products, herbal products, cosmetics, and edibles.
HealthyTOKYO is a pioneer and long-standing leader in Japan’s CBD industry. Active in the market since 2015, we launched our first CBD products in Japan in 2016 and have helped expand the awareness and accessibility of CBD nationwide. Based in Tokyo, we develop, manufacture and sell a wide range of plant-based products made with natural ingredients, including CBD oils, gummies, cookies, brownies, energy bars and skincare. All HealthyTOKYO products are made in Japan. With over a decade of experience in Japan’s evolving CBD market, HealthyTOKYO continues to lead through quality, innovation, ethics and transparency, while contributing to the responsible and sustainable development of Japan’s CBD and hemp industries.
An Austrian company that develops and makes sound absorbers from plants, offering chem-free, plastic-free and toxic-free materials that are safe for people and the planet.
Website: hempstatic.atSpeakers from this organisation
Product sponsors
A wellness company whose slogan is "Don't just live - live well." It produces wellness content and products. For JIHE 2026 it joins us as a product sponsor, providing two brands: CBD UCON (a supplement brand) and ENDOCA (a CBD brand from Denmark).
Speakers' organisations
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- Website: osada-seikei.com
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- Website: medicalcbn.jp
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An association established in the hope that hemp can be cultivated safely and rationally in Japan, and that the many products made from it will energise Japanese industries and help regions prosper.
Website: hidojapan.orgSpeakers from this organisation
An independent digital consultancy founded in 2015 by Dr. Patrick Chin and based in Singapore. It helps organisations embrace digital transformation, specialising in web3 and blockchain, data (AI) and innovation.
Website: clairvoyantlab.comSpeakers from this organisation
A consultancy that helps businesses thrive in the international cannabinoid arena, covering export and import, product sourcing, and sales and distribution.
Website: coast2coastconsulting.comSpeakers from this organisation
A Japanese brand created to bring hemp, a plant with a long history in Japan, into modern lifestyles. Its head office also houses the Hemp Life Museum (Taima Kurashi no Museum).
Website: asafuku.jpSpeakers from this organisation
A Japanese importer, wholesaler and exclusive distributor that introduces natural and organic superfood brands from overseas to the Japanese market, also handling raw material supply and private labels. It runs the domestic hemp charcoal brand Yashu Asazumi Lab.
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A brand of hemp charcoal made from Japan's Yashu hemp. It also wholesales hemp charcoal products to shops, companies and beauty salons, and supplies hemp charcoal as a raw material to manufacturers.
Website: yashu-asazumi-lab.comSpeakers from this organisation
A clothing and lifestyle brand working with hemp and linen. Under the message "Transcending time, weaving abundance together", it makes products with the circular economy in mind.
Website: weavearth.myshopify.comSpeakers from this organisation
A herb and aromatherapy specialist based in Jiyugaoka, Tokyo, offering products such as J-aroma Japanese essential oils and J-herb Japanese herbs.
Website: greenflask.comSpeakers from this organisation
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Founded in September 2015, JCAC is an academic association of medical professionals and researchers in Japan. It aims to advance cannabinoid research and to share knowledge that contributes to medicine and welfare in Japan.
Website: cannabinoids.jpSpeakers from this organisation
The only pan-European membership organisation in the industrial hemp sector.
A platform in Japan that shares accurate knowledge about industrial hemp, connects people and builds the hemp supply chain together.
Website: hemp-hub.jpSpeakers from this organisation
NIHC is an advocate for the sustainable growth of the industrial hemp industry, creating domestic and international partnerships.
An industry organization in Ghana seeking to strengthen connections between the Ghanaian and Japanese hemp industries through knowledge exchange, technology, research and industrial applications, and to support responsible development of the legal hemp value chain.
Website: cannacham.orgSpeakers from this organisation
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Bangkok, the Asia International Hemp Federation is a regional, industry-driven federation advancing the hemp and plant-based economy across Asia and beyond. It works at the intersection of trade, supply chain development, policy advocacy, sustainability and public education, connecting stakeholders across borders. AIHF is an official supporter of JIHE 2026.
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A general incorporated association in Hokkaido that sees industrial hemp as a resource for the region's future and works to build a hemp industry linking cultivation, processing and sales.
Media partners
A Portuguese news outlet dedicated to cannabis and hemp, covering medical cannabis, hemp, business, policy and science from Portugal and around the world.
Website: cannareporter.euSpeakers from this organisation
An international hemp business news site. Rather than addressing consumers, it is aimed at businesses, covering innovation in the fast-moving global hemp industry - CBD, medical cannabis, markets, cultivation, law, construction materials, textiles and food.
Website: hemptoday-japan.netSpeakers from this organisation
Sima Media GmbH, based in St. Wendel, Germany, has planned, developed and operated its own specialist information portals in-house since 2008. One of them, Tradefairdates, is a trade fair calendar that lets users search exhibitions worldwide by name, venue, date and industry, and is available in English, German, Spanish and French.
A Japanese monthly trade magazine on face-to-face marketing, covering trade shows, events and conferences. Its website publishes a trade show schedule that lets readers search exhibitions and conferences across Japan by industry, region, venue, organiser and date.
A Japanese trade newspaper for the health industry, focusing on health foods, founded in 1975.
A Japanese trade newspaper founded in 1975, covering health foods, supplements and health-related industries.
A Japanese trade newspaper on e-commerce and the digitalisation of retail and distribution, with daily industry news and interviews on its website.
A Japanese search site and online marketplace for shops that carry CBD products, searchable by area, type of business and other criteria.
An independent media, market intelligence and events platform serving the global bioeconomy. It covers industrial hemp, natural fibres, fungi, regenerative agriculture, biomaterials, plant medicine and more through journalism, newsletters, podcasts, conferences and trade missions.
A US media platform for hemp industry news, business, education and lifestyle, with a website and a podcast.
An independent research house for the global cannabis industry, based in London. It publishes industry reports, market-sizing data and forecasts, and carries out bespoke research for investors, operators and policymakers.
Community partners
Provides real-time simultaneous interpretation powered by its own voice AI model. Kotoba is supporting the JIHE 2026 conference with simultaneous interpretation.
The Tokyo International Cannabis Film Festival (TICFF) is an international film festival that uses film and art as an entry point for dialogue about cannabis culture. Its fifth edition takes place on 29 November 2026 at LOFT9 Shibuya in Tokyo, with screenings of features, shorts and documentaries plus an online Audience Award vote.
A lifestyle complex in Kyoto that proposes clothing, food and living that are "born from the earth and return to it". It houses the rice porridge restaurant Mirai Kayu, a shop for Hinode Products goods and a showroom for the hemp fabric brand Hempfabric-Organic.
A series of international business conferences for cannabis and hemp businesses held in the USA, Canada and Europe.
A shop specialising in CBD products in Oita City, Oita Prefecture.
Exhibition partners
An Austrian company that develops and makes sound absorbers from plants, offering chem-free, plastic-free and toxic-free materials that are safe for people and the planet.
Website: hempstatic.atSpeakers from this organisation
Established in May 2015 and based in Warabi, Saitama, KOKORO Co., Ltd. is a Japanese maker of CBD products. Sourcing directly from raw-material producers in Northern Europe, it imports and sells CBD oil and offers OEM manufacturing, including 3% and 8% CBD oils, oil for pets and acid-resistant CBD oil capsules.
A specialist kimono shop in Warabi, Saitama, on the old Nakasendo road at Warabi-juku. Its website describes the shop as having more than 90 years of history. It handles furisode for coming-of-age ceremonies (one design per city), rentals of furisode, formal kimono and hakama for graduation ceremonies, kimono-dressing classes, and repairs and care for kimono.
Organiser, Co-organiser & Operating partner
Asabis builds infrastructure for the hemp and CBD industry in Japan. Through the CBDBU media, the ASA WORKS B2B platform and the JIHE expo, it supports businesses across the hemp and cannabinoid sector. Asabis is the organiser of JIHE 2026.
Founded in 2017, GREEN ZONE JAPAN is a general incorporated association that shares accurate information in Japan about research on medical cannabis and how it is used overseas. Its activities include hosting lectures by international researchers and running the Japanese edition of Project CBD. GREEN ZONE JAPAN is the co-organiser of JIHE 2026.
Website: greenzonejapan.comSpeakers from this organisation
A CBD and hemp industry media outlet and community run by Asabis, publishing industry news, expert interviews and introductory guides.
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