Companies
Mitsubishi Electric: The Diversified Giant From Factories to Space
From the controllers running the world's factories to satellites in orbit — inside one of Japan's broadest industrial groups
Companies
From the controllers running the world's factories to satellites in orbit — inside one of Japan's broadest industrial groups
Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Sumitomo, and Marubeni — the unique sogo shosha model that drew a 23 billion dollar bet from Berkshire Hathaway
The private, family-owned Japanese company that makes the wire harnesses in roughly a third of the world's cars
One of only three makers of chip-lithography systems, Nikon is far more than a camera brand — it is a precision-optics giant
The Japanese materials maker that wins by dominating dozens of specialised niches — from display films to water-treatment membranes
A 125-year-old Sumitomo cornerstone making the wire harnesses in cars, the optical fiber of the internet, and 5G semiconductors
The Japanese materials and healthcare group behind Twaron aramid fiber and Tenax carbon fiber — strength you can wear and fly in
Japan's most valuable chemical company is the world's number one in both silicon wafers and PVC — two foundations of the modern economy
From concert grand pianos to beginner flutes — and roughly half the world's digital instruments — Yamaha is the global number one
The world leader in EVOH barrier resin and PVA — a hidden champion of the specialty chemistry inside everyday packaging
A diversified Japanese group spanning battery separators, housing, and medicine — and home to the Nobel-winning inventor of the lithium-ion battery
The Kyoto instrument maker whose chromatographs and mass spectrometers are lab standards worldwide — and produced a Nobel laureate