Toa Shuzo Co

Toa Shuo Co is a historic Japanese spirits company, originally founded as a sake brewery in Chichibu in 1625. It later moved its operations to Hanyu City, building a distillery that would eventually produce Scotch-style single malt in the 1980s. Despite early success, economic fortunes quickly turned against the company and it stopped producing whisky in 1991, resuming only briefly in 2000.

The company was then acquired by King Jozo Co in 2004 and it divested from whisky completely, returning its focus turned back to sake production. Despite this, the cult status achieved by Hanyu following its closure encouraged the company revive its whisky operations. It relaunched its Golden Horse brand in 2016 and later re-opened the Hanyu distillery in 2021.