First Export of Cocoon Dryers to China and the USSR|YAMATO SANKO

First Export of Cocoon Dryers to China and the USSR.In 1936, we exported our first patented Yamato type cocoon dryers to China and the USSR (in Uzbekistan today). Export to China. In the summer of 1935, despite the on-going conflict with Japan, a five-member group of silk industry inspectors, including a female member, came from China to visit Japan. The silk industry inspection group visited private sector facilities such as the Omiya Silk Mill of Katakura Silk Spinning Co., Ltd. and governmental facilities such as the sericulture test site of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, in order to learn about equipment and technology from a wide range of perspectives.The group requested catalogs, specifications and quotations for the patented Yamato type cocoon dryer that was installed at the sericulture test site of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Soon, they ordered this cocoon dryer model via the Shanghai branch of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The next year in 1936, Minosuke Wakafuji and Sanosuke Ichikawa (the supervisor) traveled to China to perform the installation, and returned after successfully completing the delivery.May 1936. Silk manufacturing training plant at a girls' technical school in Jiangsu Province, China. Assembling the delivered machine. Center of front row: Minosuke Wakafuji, Yamato Sanko employee. Export to USSR. Cocoon dryers were exported to the USSR as payment in exchange for the purchase by Japan of the North Manchuria Railway. The Soviet trade delegation was based at the corner of the Mitsubishi red brick street in front of Tokyo Station. At the time, the government did not have any national trade policies, and Yamato Sanko Shokai did not expect the business inquiry to lead anywhere. The inquiry came by telephone in English, causing confusion because there were no employees at the company who could speak English. Mitsuni Ohara answered the call, and when the Soviet trade representative asked I'd like a quotation for the cocoon dryer, he vaguely understood the meaning and replied, Of course, right away. He checked the location and caller with telephone exchange operator and then visited the delegation. 1. Cocoon dryer models. The Soviet trade representative was completely new to the silk industry, and he kept looking at his notebook while he talked. Hidden between his notebook pages was a newspaper clipping showing a photograph of the Yamato type 8-stage cocoon dryer. They decided to create quotation for a special 8-stage first model with a 24-hour drying capacity of 10 tons, and the Soviets requested that all the specification, features and quotation documentation be produced in English before the next discussion. January 1936. Shipment of cocoon dryer to the USSR. 1956. Exhibit at Japan Trade Show in Moscow. 2. Negotiations. The first negotiation was between just the Soviet trade representative and Mitsuni Ohara, with no interpreters present. The talks proceeded via broken English, hand gestures and diagrams, taking about an hour. They could both understand numbers, so they started negotiating about a price discount. However, Ohara did not agree to a discount, and they decided to discuss again at the next meeting. An interpreter was used in the second negotiation, which from beginning to end was about price. The Soviet representative firmly stated his desire for a 20% discount, which came to exactly 13,000 yen. Ohara agreed but refused to discount any further, and after a while the Soviet representative reluctantly agreed to close the deal. 1936. Yamato type cocoon dryer delivered to Margilan Silk Kombinat(Photographed in 1984). 3. Shipment and confirmation of factory delivery. At the end of January 1936, the dryer was transported to the specified warehouse in the USSR, together with documentation in English such as the package list and installation method. The Yamato type cocoon dryer was shipped to the USSR, but its location of use and whether it was installed successfully remained a complete mystery. 20 years after delivery in 1956, Yamato Sanko exhibited a photograph panel at the Japan Trade Show held in Moscow. The second president of the company, Seiichi Yamato, who visited the USSR at this time, heard that the Yamato type cocoon dryer was at a silk factory in Tashkent. Then in 1959, 23 years after the shipment of the Yamato type cocoon dryer, a Japan sericulture industry inspection group from the USSR (led by Technical Director Burkhanov from the Margilan Silk Kombinat in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic) visited Japan, and when they talked about the cocoon dryer, one member said, That dryer is installed at my factory, and I am still using it now! The whole company was surprised at this unexpected news. At this time, Mr. Burkhanov signed a note stating, A cocoon dryer made by Yamato Sanko has been operating at the Margilan Silk Kombinat since 1936. Burkhanov. Later, when company employees Hiro Noda and Shigeru Hasegawa visited the USSR for other reasons, they reported that the Yamato type cocoon dryer was still in good condition, 48 years after delivery. Yamato Sanko subsequently delivered 20 units of a patented Yamato type hot air cocoon dryer and other models to silk kombinat and independent drying facilities in the USSR (in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan today). At the time, Japan did not export many products overseas. Therefore, our success in exporting these machines to other countries was an important step in the development of manufacturing industry in Japan. 1959. Signature of Technical Director Burkhanov from Margilan Silk Kombinat.

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