ABOUT

Message from the President

Aiming to be a Business Group continually
creating added values

We are an international traders’ group that started out doing business between Japan and China. Our existence is by virtue of the land and sea that belong to the Earth. As a logistics business, we aim to act as a bridge that connects separated lands across the globe. Let’s try selling products produced in one country to people in other countries. Let’s go beyond traditional trading and manufacturing and create brand value. Since our foundation, we have ceaselessly tackled new challenges. And the world is the stage where we pursue our activities. Let’s introduce Japanese technologies to global markets. From being Japanese traders to becoming international traders. From Japanese products to an international brand. Let’s engage in cultural exchanges with the world through business. Our ambition is to make contributions, no matter how small, to children’s education, the world’s future leaders.
Our curiosity, appetite for growth, and spirit of challenge know no bounds.
In the ever more rapidly changing environment of the 21st Century, we will create new added values through business. We aim to become a business group that delivers better lifestyles and services to people in Japan and worldwide.

Akihisa Yamamoto
Apollo Trading Group Representative

Head Office

Apollo Trading Corporation

Apollo Tower Nihonbashi, 1-8-16 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023
tel. 03-4218-3388
fax. 03-4218-3386

Site of the Isechōbori Canal (Nishihoridomegawa)

Location:Chuo City
6-8 Nihonbashi Honchō 1-chome, 6 Nihonbashihonchō 2-chome
1-4 Nihonbashi Kobunachō
3 Nihonbashi Muromachi 2-chome, 4-6 Nihonbashihonchō 2-chome

The Isechōbori canal (known from the 18th century as Nishihoridomegawa) ran here from the 17th century until 1928, serving as the border between the Nihonbashi Honchō 1-chome and Nihonbashi Kobunachō neighborhoods.The canal traced a key-like shape as it ran northwest from the Nihonbashi River, turned westward just before Horidomechō (now 7 Nihonbashi Muromachi 2-chome), and flowed along the edge of Muromachi 3-chome (now 3 Nihonbashi Muromachi 2-chome). As a shipping channel running through the center of the Nihonbashi district, the canal was a conduit for goods from all over Japan, mainly grains and dried foods, which were unloaded at numerous busy sites along its banks.The western bank of the canal, lined with rice storehouses, was known as the “rice riverbank” as it was the landing place for much of the rice transported into the city of Edo (now Tokyo). The eastern bank along the edge of Kobunachō, known as the “Kobuna riverbank,” held many wholesale businesses dealing in katsuobushi (dried tuna shavings) and dried snack foods. The south bank of the westward-flowing section of the canal was called the “salt riverbank” as many salt wholesalers were headquartered nearby; by 1877, the two sides of this section of the canal were known as the “north salt riverbank” and “south salt riverbank.”After serving for some two and a half centuries as a gathering and unloading site for immense quantities of ship-carried goods, in 1886 the westward-flowing section of the canal was filled in as reclaimed land. In 1928 the remainder of the canal was reclaimed in the course of land readjustments after the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923.The flourishing canal life of former times can be glimpsed in illustrations of shipping and unloading activities along this canal which appear in the Edo Meisho Zue (Guide to Famous Edo Sites, published 1834-36).

May 2014
Chuo City Board of Education

Nihonbashikita Uchikanda Ryogoku Hamacho Meisai Ezu
Map detail showing the Nishihoridomegawa and upper Nihonbashi River

Nihonbashi

“Morning Scene at Nihonbashi Bridge” from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido by Hiroshige Utagawa

The Nihonbashi District
Nihonbashi proliferated as a castle town with the establishment of the Edo Shogunate. Traders and artisans from all over the country gathered here. The famous “Nihonbashi” bridge became the starting point of the Five Highways that connected Edo, the then capital of Japan, with the outer provinces. Blessed with excellent water transportation, Nihonbashi was also a place where various goods and merchandise were gathered and distributed. Trading in these goods handed down through the generations in the form of goodwill, which changed to take on business, and growth continues now more than ever.
Redevelopment of Nihonbashi
In the Nihonbashi district (Chuo Ward, Tokyo), and the Metropolitan Expressway Underground Project to be implemented by 2040, moves are underway to redevelop the five districts surrounding the Nihonbashi River and to construct office buildings and mixed-use facilities. It includes the linkage of the five surrounding districts and establishing international financial and business bases , and the developinga waterside scenery and pedestrian network, aimed at the rebirth of Nihonbashi into an attractive area that will combine history and culture with cutting-edge urban functions.

History

  • 1995
    • Jan.Establishment of Apollo Trading Corporation
  • 1997
    • Feb.Establishment of the Guangdong Office in Shunde City, Guangdong Province
  • 2000
    Jul.Establishment of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
  • 2001
    • Jul.Establishment of Shenzhen Office in Shenzhen City
    • Nov.Acquisition of ISO9001 Management System accreditation by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
  • 2004
    • Feb.Completion of Factory of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City in the Shunde Hi-tech Industrial Development District in Foshan City, Guangdong Province
  • 2006
    • Jun.Operations launched at expanded factory of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
    • Jul.Establishment of Apollo Zhanmao Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    • Nov.Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City certified as “Guangdong High and New Technology Enterprise”
  • 2007
    • Oct.Establishment of Apollo Technology & Material Co., Ltd. in Taiwan
    • Dec.Establishment of Apollo Zhanmao Technologies (HK) Co., Limited
  • 2008
    • Dec.Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City certified as “National High and New Technology Enterprise”
  • 2009
    • Dec.Acquisition of ISO14001 Environmental Management System accreditation by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City
  • 2012
    • Dec.Acquisition of ISO/ TS16949 Quality Management System accreditation for the automotive industry by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City
  • 2013
    • Nov.Establishment of Star Dragon Corporation
  • 2014
    • Dec.Star Filter Corporation enters the EC business
  • 2015
    • Jun.The Apollo Trading Group begins support of “Project Hope,” and undertaking promoted by the China Youth Development Foundation.
    • Oct.Establishment of Apollo Yoko Corporation
  • 2016
    • May.Establishment of Apollo Trading (Korea) Co., Ltd.
    • Sep.Apollo Hope Elementary School opened
  • 2018
    • Aug.Establishment of Starge Cosmetics(Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    • Dec.“J Contents Co., Ltd.” becomes a 100% owned subsidiary through acquisition of its shares from Im Co,.Ltd (the Daiichi Sankyo Health Care Group).
  • 2019
    • Feb.Start of joint venture by Freudenberg Apollo Filtration Technologies Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City with the Freudenberg Group, Germany
  • 2021
    • Aug.Relocation of Freudenberg Apollo Filtration Technologies Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City to a new factory with a site area of 55,000m2
    • Oct.J Contents Co., Ltd. renamed Starge Inc.
  • 2022
    • Mar.Office relocated to Nihonbashi
    • Up to the present.