Japan buyer map: fresh fruit and shrimp from Ecuador, Peru, India, Kenya and Colombia

Each product–origin pair carries one of three labels. They describe evidence, not our opinion of the route.

• Recorded trade + published basis — Japan reported 2024 imports from that origin, and MAFF publishes a rule or exclusion covering the product.
• Rule published, no 2024 row — a MAFF detailed rule exists, but Japan reported no 2024 imports from that origin under that HS code. Feasibility depends on registered orchards, packhouses and treatment facilities for the season.
• Not established — no detailed rule found and no 2024 row. This is not proof of a ban or of permission; ask the Plant Protection Station in writing before planning.

Values are Japan's 2024 imports from the origin (UN Comtrade, US$ thousand and kg). HS 080390, 080440 and 080450 include dried fruit; HS 080450 also covers guavas and mangosteens. Detailed rules apply to the named variety only.

• Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador do ship cut flowers to Japan (HS 0603, 2024: Colombia 72,815.12, Ecuador 10,816.16, Kenya 10,486.73 US$ thousand) — outside the produce lanes we source, shown only as context for existing air links.
• Peru also has a detailed rule for satsuma mandarins; we did not check its trade data, so it is not mapped here.

Frozen shrimp for human consumption enter Japan as food: the importer files a food import notification with an MHLW quarantine station under Food Sanitation Act Article 27, and residues are judged under the positive list system. MAFF's Animal Quarantine Service covers non-living aquatic animals only when they are for aquaculture use.

HS 030617 covers frozen shrimps and prawns other than cold-water species; it does not identify the species, so this map does not attribute any species to an origin. India's MPEDA reports that Japan took 40,776 tonnes of India's frozen shrimp exports in financial year 2025-26.

MAFF reports that a little over half of fruit and vegetables and a little under half of seafood sold in Japan pass through wholesale markets (about 80% for domestic produce), with 64 central wholesale markets, 154 central-market wholesalers and 2,737 intermediate wholesalers; imports reach the markets through trading companies as well as going direct to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice (MAFF, 14 March 2025).

The needs below are editorial — typical questions each buyer type raises — not data about any company.

• Origin, product and exact variety or cultivar — rules apply only to the named variety (for example Kent or Tommy Atkins mangoes, Hass avocados)
• The MAFF detailed rule your route relies on, and whether the orchard, packhouse and treatment facility are registered for the coming season
• Residue results against Japan's limits under the positive list system
• Who files the MHLW food import notification and the customs declaration
• Shrimp: HS code, product form, count or size grade, glazing and net weight, processing plant
• Arrival port, arrival weeks, Incoterms® rule and named place, and how arrival claims are evidenced

Our team turns these points into one reviewed request and approaches suitable suppliers on your behalf. Buyers pay nothing; sourcing programmes start from USD 250,000 per year or season, and every requirement is confirmed per shipment rather than assumed.