We sell Japanese matcha to buyers in 70 countries. We read the market with AI and data, and we walk the tea fields ourselves.
The deals, the paperwork, the shipping. We are rebuilding an analogue trade business with technology.
A third of your life is work. So spend it on something you actually care about. And in the time you have here, get genuinely good at something.
You want to close deals in English. You love matcha. You want to work with the world. Whatever brought you here is fine. We are looking for people with real heat who will walk this road with us.
What we want is not someone who gets the tasks done.
Decide for yourself, and go and take it. We hand over real responsibility and let you close the deal. Intern or full-time, that does not change.
Act with the other person in mind. That is what moves customers, moves teammates, and in the end moves the world.
Taking on the world for real is something you keep for life. Take that first step here.
Indifference is the real enemy. Never stop trying to understand the person in front of you.
Do Do Do. Keep swinging the bat. Thinking it over on its own has produced nothing yet.
Always ask what actually matters. Notice what things have in common, and go straight at the centre.
It all comes down to love. Caring about people is what moves customers, teammates and the world.
Do not let secondhand information fool you. The truth is always where the work happens.
A tight spot is room to grow. That is exactly when the energy should come.
Japanese food makers struggle to get their products abroad, and buyers abroad can never be sure what will arrive.
We connect the two with data and real work on the ground.
01 We do not trade on instinct alone. We read cross-border e-commerce trends, local demand and what people say on social media, so there is always a reason why this sells now. Everything follows from that, from which matcha we pick to how we promote it.
02 Cafés, distributors, e-commerce. Every buyer sits in a different country and a different culture. Trade shows, samples, prices and terms: we do all of it ourselves instead of outsourcing. That is why the work still feels real.
03 We visit the farms, and every month we take buyers out to the tea fields. Export documents and customs come to us. When growers can put everything into making tea, better matcha reaches the world.
04 Our job is not done when the goods leave Japan. It is done when someone picks the product off a shelf and comes back for more. Strategy, regulations, logistics, sales support on the ground: we stay with it the whole way.
Less about how big we are. More about how much one person gets to touch.
CEO / Eiri Yokota Japan is still full of things the world would value, if only they reached it. Matcha was one of them. The quality is already there. What is missing is the way it gets delivered.
In my last job I launched more than 150 brands in food delivery and grew them past a thousand locations. What I learned there is that making something good and making it sell are two completely different jobs.
DripSquare does the second one. We go to the growers and earn their trust, we negotiate with buyers abroad ourselves, and we take on the paperwork and the shipping. We hand that work over early. We do not draw a line between staff and interns.
If you join as an intern, we do not ask for experience. Move first, and try to understand the person across from you. With those two, the work itself will teach you the rest.
If you join as full-time staff, we will look at what you have done. But what we look at is not the job title. It is whether you decided things yourself and acted on them. Having worked with the world will serve you wherever you go next. We are waiting for the people who come to take it.
DripSquare Inc. CEOEiri Yokota
Who works here, and what it is like. The things worth knowing before you apply.
Our team is made of people with very different backgrounds. When people with different skills and histories gather under one mission, ideas appear that would never come out of the usual way of doing business. We respect what each person is good at and cover for what they are not. That mix is our biggest weapon in a complicated global market.
We do not run trade on instinct and experience alone. We analyse cross-border e-commerce trends, local demand and social media reactions with current technology, and build strategy on what the data says. From choosing which matcha to sell to how we promote it, everything has an answer to "why does this sell right now". Shining data onto an analogue industry is how we build something that can win abroad.
AI analysis of cross-border e-commerce and social data, a B2B catalogue called Japan Food Hub, and more. We keep producing things that overturn how this industry has always worked. We question what everyone takes for granted and ask how technology could move it forward. Creative thinking plus engineering, used to bring out everything Japan has to offer. That is why people call us a next-generation trading house.
Because we are a young startup, we hand real responsibility to anyone with the drive, no matter how long they have been here. You sit close to the CEO and the board, and you feel how fast decisions get made. That is growth you will not find at a large company. You do not just complete tasks here; you grow the seed of a business and give it a shape. We build the environment so you get that at-bat.
We treat students as partners who build the business with us, not as labour. Interns are at the front line of our global sales work, and their fresh thinking speeds up our projects. You get feedback straight from experienced executives and creators, and you learn what global business actually looks like by doing it. If you are ambitious and want to grow with the world as your stage, we would love to hear from you.
Our work does not end when a product is shipped overseas. The mission runs until that product is picked up in a local market and has fans. Strategy, regulations, logistics, sales support on the ground: we take responsibility for all of it, walking beside our partners. We go deep with each one and see the unglamorous parts through. That sense of responsibility is what builds trust that holds across borders.
If one of these looks interesting, a casual chat is a fine place to start.
Staff who have done trade, retail, e-commerce and logistics for real, working alongside people from more than ten countries.
We write about the business and how we work on Wantedly. These articles are in Japanese.
For students who are not sure what to do next. Running social accounts, making slides, taking minutes. None of that is bad. But is it really making you better at anything?
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Our vision is to make Japan stronger, and we do it by getting Japanese food out into the world. We take what a trading house does, update it with digital tools and generative AI, and help brands go global.
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