Companies
ispace: Japan’s Bid to Commercialise the Moon
Tokyo-listed ispace is building commercial lunar landers, aiming to make transport to and business on the Moon routine.
Companies
Tokyo-listed ispace is building commercial lunar landers, aiming to make transport to and business on the Moon routine.
Founded by ex-Google researchers in 2023, Tokyo's Sakana AI reached a $2.65B valuation with a nature-inspired approach to building AI models.
Mercari turned Japan into a nation of resellers and is now exporting that marketplace model to the US and beyond.
The Japanese game company that owns two of gaming's most beloved role-playing franchises, exporting Japanese creativity worldwide
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