Turning regional potential into business, with AI.

Who We Work With

We work with local government, regional companies, producers, tourism operators, financial institutions, educational institutions, healthcare and welfare providers, and community organizations, building a business model suited to each region.

Basic Cycle

Business Areas We Cover

We do not complete work in a single field alone; we combine multiple business areas to address regional challenges.

Examples of Cross-Domain Combinations

• Agriculture × tourism × e-commerce × furusato nozei
• Fisheries × product development × overseas exports × AI-driven sales
• Vacant houses × relocation × startups × regional employment
• Shopping districts × tourism × regional apps × cashless payments

How We Proceed

1. Know the region: research regional resources, industries, businesses, population, tourism, and challenges.
2. Analyze with AI: analyze market potential, demand, competition, regional characteristics, and business feasibility.
3. Build the business: design concrete business models such as products, services, tourism, and digital transformation.
4. Build the execution environment: build the web, apps, AI, e-commerce, reservations, CRM, and other systems needed.
5. Connect to the market: connect to businesses, consumers, buyers, tourists, and overseas markets.
6. Support operations with AI: automate sales, marketing, customer response, and analysis where possible.
7. Create the next business from the results: analyze accumulated data and expand into new products, services, markets, and regional businesses.

From "Support" to "Business"

For regional revitalization to be more than a one-time effort, it needs a structure that can continue as a business. APC aims to create ongoing economic activity within a region by combining multiple business models, including projects with government, joint projects with regional companies, regional trading company operations, AI and DX projects, product development and sales, e-commerce and platform operations, sales channel development, and overseas expansion.

A Business Production Example

FEATURED PROJECT | SEAFOOD × REGIONAL REVITALIZATION

Authentic flavor,
to the world.

Hakata Wa Unagi: a halal and aquaculture DX project

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Bringing seafood resources up to global quality.

From designing halal-compliant management on the seafood site, to developing a dedicated app that guarantees on-site traceability, to designing an alcohol-free sauce that recreates traditional flavor. This is the story of an end-to-end structure, set in motion by the project team, that extends the potential of seafood resources to the world.

Halal certified
Certified for both product and facility

BrandHakata Wa Unagi

BaseFrom Fukuoka Hakata to the world

HalalProduct and facility certified

The team's roleFrom concept to structure

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The Challenge

Why was authentic halal eel so hard to achieve?

Grilled eel, kabayaki, is a traditional Japanese dish. Making it truly global and halal meant clearing extremely high hurdles.

Beyond the sake and mirin (alcohol) in the traditional sauce, the entire seafood supply chain, from farming through processing and shipping, needed a structure that maintains and records strict process control and traceability.

Authentic traditional flavor, strict halal standards, and real-world seafood operations. To overcome these intertwined challenges, a project team was formed, bringing together producers, culinary craftspeople, system engineers, and specialists.

The Approach

Building one consistent halal structure, from site to system.

What the project team took on went beyond product development: designing an end-to-end structure that fuses site operations with technology.

1

Site management and a dedicated app to support it

A management structure compliant with halal standards and HACCP was designed from farming through processing and shipping. A dedicated management system and app were also developed and introduced to record water quality, feeding, and process data accurately and smoothly on site, ensuring strict traceability.

2

Recreating traditional flavor without alcohol

The team pursued the logic of a dedicated sauce that draws out the depth, richness, and umami unique to Japanese cuisine without sake or mirin. By combining craftsmanship with a chemical approach, it succeeded in recreating authentic kabayaki flavor while remaining halal.

3

Establishing brand value for global markets

Building on the reach of Fukuoka Hakata as a food hub, the brand was designed as Hakata Wa Unagi for premium overseas markets and inbound demand.

Results

What the project achieved

• Halal certification for product and facility
• Water, feeding, and process records managed in one system
• The Hakata Wa Unagi brand launched for the world

The Vision

Giving regional seafood resources a structure that connects to the world.

Japan's regions and seafood sites still hold rich resources and skills that can compete globally. Combining them with the right planning, strict management, and technology (DX) opens new global markets that were previously out of reach.

The project team will continue to stand alongside regional and seafood sites, supporting their value from behind the scenes and building structures that carry it to global markets.

Carrying on-site insight into the next seafood business

When starting a new eel farming or seafood processing business, connecting management, records, sales channels, and branding from the outset, not only facilities and volume, often decides whether the business can last.

Drawing on this on-site experience, the project team works with companies and regions entering seafood businesses, shaping the business together from the concept stage.

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Last updated: 2026-10-02 | Responsible party: Asia Produce Company Co., Ltd.