The WEDC Board of Directors has approved up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits for Kikkoman Foods’ planned $800 million expansion, Gov. Tony Evers announced. That total project dollar figure covers expanding the Japanese company’s existing soy sauce brewing plant in Walworth and building a new 240,000-square-foot facility in Jefferson, according to yesterday’s release. These efforts are expected to create 83 new jobs over 12 years. Evers in a statement yesterday highlighted the economic relationship between Wisconsin and Japan, noting the state has more than $700 million in exports to Japan each year. Kikkoman Corporation in 1973 opened Kikkoman