South American Trading Company

Connecting South America
and Japan through real value.

Misionero Inc. is a trading company based in Japan.
We source South American products for the Japanese market, and we open routes for Japanese products to reach buyers overseas.

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What We Handle

From origin to your warehouse

OUR OWN LABEL

Our own sacks,
from Carmo de Minas.

Single-origin green coffee shipped to Japan in EL ORIGEN sacks. Our name is on the bag, not somebody else’s.

AT THE SOURCE

We buy where
the coffee grows.

Direct relationships with South American producers, built one at a time rather than bought through a chain of intermediaries.

PRIVATE LABEL

Your logo,
from 50 bags.

Drip bags roasted, packed and labelled in Japan. Small enough for a first order, repeatable for a standing one.

LOGISTICS

Customs and forwarding,
handled.

Food import notification, COA, product specifications, pesticide residue and health certificates — the paperwork Japan asks for.

GLUTEN-FREE

Cassava, beyond
confectionery.

A South American crop that works without gluten. Test sales complete, OEM production being set up now.

HANDCRAFT

Made by hand,
bought direct.

Alpaca knitwear, hand-woven textiles, woodwork and ceramics — on fair-trade terms so the relationship lasts.

What We Do

Trade in two directions

Misionero works on both sides of the same route. We bring South American food, ingredients, metals and consumer goods into Japan, and we take Japanese products out to buyers abroad. We are building each supply and sales route one relationship at a time, and we intend to stay the kind of trading partner you can approach with a small first lot.

Please read the categories below as the areas where we are actively sourcing and negotiating. They are not a claim of completed transaction records. Where we already have shipping and wholesale experience, we say so explicitly.

Container terminal
Stock photograph — not our own facility or cargo.
01
Japanese Products, Exported

Matcha, J-Beauty, fishing tackle

Japan → Worldwide

Japanese green tea, department-store-grade cosmetics for B2B, and fishing equipment. We work through the questions that decide whether a deal is real: authorised distribution, MOQ, permitted sales territories and target price band.

02
Specialty Coffee

South American green and roasted coffee

South America → Japan

Our own brand, EL ORIGEN, imports and wholesales South American specialty coffee in Japan. This line is already operating, with professional roasters and cafés among our customers.

03
Fine Ingredients

Cacao, vanilla and specialty crops

Peru, Uganda and others → Japan

We assess fermentation and curing profiles against graded samples before committing, because these are the categories where quality varies most between lots.

04
Fresh Vegetables & Superfood

Kale, spirulina, fresh produce

South America → Japan

Sourcing here depends on cold-chain design and on Japanese quarantine conditions, food standards and pesticide residue limits. We confirm those before we talk volume.

05
Seafood

Frozen seafood, incl. vannamei shrimp

Overseas → Japan / China

We review specification, frozen condition, sustainable supply volume, health certificates and export track record when evaluating a new supplier.

06
Non-Ferrous Metals

Copper and aluminium

Overseas → Japan / Overseas

Discussions are structured around LME-linked pricing, purity and grade, lot size and payment terms.

07
Gluten-Free Ingredients

Cassava-based food development

South America → Japan

Under our Libre brand we develop gluten-free products from South American cassava. Test sales are complete and repeat demand is growing; OEM production is being set up now.

08
Cross-Border E-Commerce

Japanese goods into Latin America

Japan → South America

We are designing a route to sell Japanese products through Mercado Libre, the platform most widely used across Latin America.

If you are looking for a Japanese partner to buy from, or a route into the Japanese market, we would like to hear from you. Even a question as early as “could you source this from South America?” is a good place to start.
Our Brands

Four business lines

Alongside our South American food, apparel and lifestyle businesses, we build internal DX and business systems.

EL ORIGEN
South American specialty coffee
Core business
Libre
South American gluten-free foods
Growth area
INDY
South American handcraft & goods
New area
RAKUDA
Internal DX & business systems
DX business
Private Label

Your brand, from 50 bags

These are our own EL ORIGEN drip bags. The same line runs under our customers’ brands — their design, their logo, roasted and packed here in Japan.

Single-origin drip bags
Single-origin drip bags — Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru
Gift box of drip bags
Gift boxes for corporate orders and seasonal gifting
Pour-over brewing
The same coffee, in the cup
Why Misionero

What we can actually do for you

Working with us
  • Small first lots. We would rather begin with a sample shipment than lose a good product to an impossible minimum.
  • Private-label coffee from 50 bags — your logo, our roasting and packing.
  • Japanese import paperwork handled: food import notification, COA, product specifications, pesticide residue and health certificates.
  • Customs brokers and forwarders already in place for shipping and clearance.
  • Direct relationships with South American producers, not a chain of intermediaries.
  • We negotiate in Japanese, English and Spanish.
Countries and regions we work with
PeruBrazilColombiaBoliviaEcuadorUgandaJapanChina
Areas we are exploring next
  • South American botanical raw materials for cosmetics, food and supplements
  • Andean functional foods — maca, lucuma, quinoa, camu camu
  • Sacha inchi — omega-3 and plant protein
  • Fine cacao products — cacao nibs, cascara tea
  • Natural fragrances and plant oils for cosmetic OEM and flavour houses
Import Inquiry

Tell us what you are
looking for.

Wholesale, OEM, private label, corporate gifts, or sourcing from South America — write to us in English, Spanish or Japanese.

Contact form

We normally reply within 2–3 business days.