Shinomiya Pharmaceutical Engineering

Shinomiya Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ltd. (四宮医薬品工学株式会社) is a Yamataian multinational pharmaceutical company. A part of the Shinomiya Group, it is the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in Yamatai and the tenth-largest in Escar.

The company was previously known as Araki Pharmaceuticals, and was once the second-largest pharmaceutical company in Yamatai. It was involved in a major scandal in 2002 when a whistleblower revealed that the company had previously been involved in human experimentation in the Song Republic. A major investigation was carried out, five personnel were imprisoned for life, and the company had to pay a fine of over 37 million En. After the controversy, the company faced severe financial difficulties until it was purchased by the Shinomiya Group in 2004. In 2005, the company merged with parts of Shinomiya Medical Engineering and was rebranded as Shinomiya Pharmaceutical Engineering.

Controversy
In 2002, evidence emerged that Araki Pharmaceuticals had been involved in human experimentation and horrific human rights abuses in the Song Republic for a period between 1983 and 1998. An anonymous source reported that a secret division of the company was working with the Song Republic's dictatorship to run drug trials on live humans. The test subjects were often political prisoners or in some cases people kidnapped off the street who met physical requirements. The purported goal of the research unit was to find a pharmaceutical cure for cancer using some unique properties within the tobacco grown in the Song Republic, though it is also alleged that the company tested many of its products on Songan people prior to their introduction to the consumer market. The tests apparently ended in 1998, when the Song Republic experienced a regime change.

37 Araki employees were implicated in the case and were charged with various sentences based on their level of involvement. Five were placed under life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in 2005, the first Yamataian citizens to be charged for crimes against humanity since the end of the Second Escar-Varunan War. The company was ordered to pay a fine of over 37 million En and pay restitution to the surviving victims as well as their families, payment of which continues to this day under the company's new owners.

In the aftermath of the scandal, international spotlight was shone on the widespread abuses in the Song Republic's sweatshops, factories, and plantations, as well as the many ties that many West Escaric conglomerates had to these abuses. Many Yamataian corporations made great expenses to distance themselves from the Song Republic and the controversy that unfolded.

As a result of the controversy, international companies largely shunned the Song Republic. Due to this and other factors, the Song Republic's economy quickly collapsed, and they were invaded and reunited with Dai Hoa in 2006.