Kikkoman Corporation: version 1

Saved 2026-09-11 05:29 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **product/08715035130104, Kikkoman Less Salt Soy Sauce 150 ml** (glass dispenser bottle). It is the corpus's first soy sauce and first product in GPC brick 10000280, Other Sauces Dipping/Condime. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Kikkoman Corporation <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Kikkoman Corporation
legal_name: Kikkoman Corporation
country: JP
website: https://www.kikkoman.com/
founded: 1917-12-07
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name       | type  | locale | from | until |
| ---------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| キッコーマン株式会社 | legal | ja     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                   | title                                                                                                                                             | accessed   |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| off              | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/8715035130104 | Open Food Facts: Kikkoman less salt soy sauce 150 ml, record and label photographs (front 2024-12-06; back, ingredients and nutrition 2025-08-03) | 2026-09-11 |
| kikkoman-profile | https://www.kikkoman.com/en/corporate/about/profile/  | Kikkoman Corporation: Corporate Profile                                                                                                           | 2026-09-11 |
| kikkoman-history | https://www.kikkoman.com/en/corporate/history/01/     | Kikkoman Corporation: History 1917-1969                                                                                                           | 2026-09-11 |
| wikipedia        | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikkoman                | Wikipedia: Kikkoman                                                                                                                               | 2026-09-11 |
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## About <!--about-->
Japanese food manufacturer, established on 7 December 1917, with head offices in Noda, Chiba, and in Tokyo, and 7,911 consolidated employees as of March 2026.[^kikkoman-profile] Its forerunner Noda Shoyu Co. Ltd. was formed in Noda by merging eight family companies.[^kikkoman-history] Wikipedia describes it as the world's largest soy sauce producer as of 2002, with plants in Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, Singapore and Taiwan.[^wikipedia] It owns the KIKKOMAN trademark printed on its European packs.[^off]
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