About Us

Company Introduction

We were tasked with the AMED project titled ‘Development of an Efficient Production Method for Medicinal Carrots by Quantifying Traditional Cultivation Methods Based on Quality Evaluation Using a New Method’. Our responsibility was to enhance the methods for analyzing the components of medicinal ginsengs. Based on the outcomes of this project, we established Aqas Corporation on March 13, 2023.Our products will enable the visualization of a broad spectrum of components found in plants, thereby contributing to the emergence of new businesses in the realm of untapped resource utilization.

Members

Representative director

Hiroaki ASAOKA

Bachelor of Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology (1987)
Business background: Worked for over 30 years in overseas companies including Pharmacia, Molecular Dynamics, Biacore, Clontech, Illumina, Sequenom (Representative Director), Roche Diagnostics (Sales Manager), and PacBio Japan LLC (Sales Manager).

Director

Hiroshi KOBAYASHI

Master of Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Engaged in column development at Shinwa Chemical Industries Ltd.
In addition to product development at the company, he is a leader of joint research and development through industry-academia collaboration.

Company Overview

　Corporate name
　 AQAS Corporation
　Date of Establishment
　March 13, 2023
　Capital
　￥50,000,000　（As of Dec, 2025）
　Representative
　Hiroaki ASAOKA
　Director
　Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
　Outside Director
　Satoshi YAMAGUCHI
　Outside Director
　Takashi SANO
　Auditor
　Tomonori WADA
　Head Office & Laboratories
　#201 ACT Kyoto, 105 Jibu-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto-City, Kyoto, JAPAN

Company History

Drag
2023

March 13　

Establishment of AQAS Corporation
2020

　

A dedicated capillary column for raw drugs has been completed, along with a novel method for the precise analysis of botanical components using this customized column.
2018

　

Hibino, Kobayashi, Wada, and others are participating in the AMED project, which is focused on ‘Quantifying traditional farming techniques and developing efficient production methods based on the quality assessment of medicinal carrots using novel approaches.’ They have initiated a collaborative effort to develop an HPLC capillary column specifically for raw drugs, given the need to analyze the constituents of medicinal carrots.

Access Map

By car
  • Approximately 15 minutes from Kyoto Station by car
  • Daini-Keihan Road (former Hanshin Expressway Kyoto Line)
    From  Jonangu North/South Ramp in the south direction on Abura-no Koji Dori and turn left on Tanbabashi Dori.
By train
  • Approximately 17 minutes on foot from Keihan Tanbabashi Station or Kintetsu Tanbabashi Station.
By bus
  • Rakunan Express: Approximately 17 minutes from Kyoto Station Hachijo Exit
    Get off at Kyoto Pulse Plaza/Kyocera-mae (last stop),12 minutes (950m) on foot to the south.
  • City Bus/City Bus/Keihan Bus: 8 minutes from Takeda Station West Exit
    Get off at Abura-no Koji Tanbabashi/Act Kyoto-mae bus stop.
By cab
  • Kyoto Municipal Subway: Approximately 6 minutes from Takeda Station West Exit
  • Approximately 6 minutes from Chushojima Station on the Keihan Electric Railway Line
  • Approximately 15 minutes from Hachijo Exit of JR Kyoto Station