Companies
Glory: The Machines That Count the World’s Cash
The global leader in cash-handling and cash-recycling machines used by banks and retailers worldwide
Companies
The global leader in cash-handling and cash-recycling machines used by banks and retailers worldwide
The maker of Salonpas, the world's number-one OTC pain-relief patch, built on mastery of delivering medicine through the skin
The Japanese drugmaker that co-developed Leqembi, among the first treatments shown to slow Alzheimer's disease
A Japanese antiviral specialist behind the flu drug Xofluza and COVID antiviral Xocova — including the first oral COVID post-exposure prevention pill
After an 18-month saga, Nippon Steel completed its 4.9 billion takeover of U.S. Steel in 2025, becoming the world's fourth-largest steelmaker
How Hitachi shed dozens of businesses and rebuilt around its Lumada digital platform, energy, and rail — one of Japan's great transformations
A global leader in tankless on-demand water heaters and gas appliances, sold in more than 80 countries
A global sanitaryware leader whose Washlet bidet seat — over 70 million sold in 140+ countries — made the high-tech toilet a symbol of Japan
One of the world's top bearing makers and a leader in automotive wheel-hub bearings — part of Japan's bearing trio with NSK and JTEKT
The maker of Attack, Bioré, and Merries that pairs beloved consumer brands with a serious B2B chemicals business
Japan's most valuable pharmaceutical company, inventor of antibody blockbusters and majority-owned by Roche since 2002
A diversified Japanese chemical house spanning petrochemicals, display and battery materials, crop protection, and pharmaceuticals