Heiwa Bussan Co., Ltd was established in 1946 as a subsidiary company of Kishimoto Shoten which was founded in 1831, and began sale of domestic steel materials and import and export of petroleum products, non-ferrous metals, ores, agricultural, forestry and fishery products with Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Korea, Europe and the U.S. When Kishimoto Shoten and Okura Shoji were merged on April 1, 1964, Heiwa Bussan completely changed its business and succeeded import and sale of the state-of-art medical devices made in the U.S. such as electro-cardiograms, x-ray apparatus, heart-lung machines, artificial organs, diagnostic devices and treatment devices, and began distributing zinc-aluminum die-cast products, non-ferrous metals and ores.