| 1911 | Japanese sweets shop "MITAKAYA" was founded. |
About 40 years ago which may be traced back to MITAKADOH founded, a small Japanese sweet shop raised a first cry in Tokyo.
Minoru Sugita
Taka Kobayashi
Jinzaemon Kobayashi , a storekeeper, was a person with a dexterous hand, mastered making Japanese sweets and opened MITAKADOH named from his hometown "MITAKA".
Even when in 1923, we were burned out by the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo, our store was revived somehow.
However, in the middle of the Pacific War, Tokyo became the burnt ruins in Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Armed Forces of 1945, and Kobayashi who avoided a difficulty came back to his hometown, Mitaka, with very few tools.
And Minoru Sugita, the late President, returned in 1948 from Siberia and decided to started manufacturing and selling confectionery.
| 1949 | A confectionery retail shop "MITAKADOH"was opend in front of Mitaka station. |
| 1951 | MITAKADOH Co.,Ltd was established in the same place. |
| 1954 | MITAKADOH was reorganized from a limited company to a stock company. |
From these days we started a wholesale business to meet booming demand for confectionery in the surrounding area.
We enlarged our warehouse by buying adjacent land, and employees has been increasing gradually.
The sweets which gave glory in the early days from 1951.
| 1957 | The shop became cramped for space, and so we moved to another place in Mitaka city. |
Since our office in front of Mitaka station became too small, we acquired a wider company building. From this time, the mainstream of the business shifts to wholesale duties.
While we expanded the handling products and enlarged the warehouse and introduced large trucks, supermarkets as well as conventional shops became to be our new customer.
| ・1904 The Russo-Japanese War broke out. |
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・1911 Tariff autonomy was recovered. |
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・1913 The Tohoku district was badly damaged by the cold weather. |
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・1914 World War I broke out. |
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・1917 The export of gold was prohibited. |
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・1918 Riot incident due to the soaring price of rice occurred in Toyama Prefecture |
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・1920 Japan Joined the League of Nations. |
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・1923 The Great Kanto Earthquake occurred. |
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・1929 The Great Depression occurred. |
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・1933 Japan withdrew from the League of Nations. |
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・1939 World War Ⅱ broke out. |
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・1941 The Pacific War broke out. |
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・1945 World War Ⅱended. |
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・1953 Television broadcasting began in Tokyo area. |
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・1958 Tokyo Tower was completed. |
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