The Welcome John Mung Company is located in the southernmost port town of Kochi Prefecture on Shikoku Island, a hidden city with a small population and no highways or railways. The company is named after Nakahama “John” Manjirō, a local fisherman turned samurai who is famously known for being one of the first Japanese people to visit America and is credited for his role in “Bakumatsu” or the Opening of Japan. It’s with this same sense of adventure and connecting people worlds apart that the Welcome John Mung Company creates their locally-made products.