The founder, Kyuzaburo Tomita, begin full-scale research in Shizuoka on a manufacturing process using bittern as a raw material. His goal is to mass-produce magnesium carbonate for pharmaceutical use at good quality and low cost, hopeful to circumvent this product’s expensive foreign imports.
In the same year, he starts manufacturing and selling cough medicine “Lauryl Sulfate Water” and “Lauryl Oil” from Oba Kashi, and invests all of the profits from the sales in researching the manufacturing process of magnesium carbonate.