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Kioxia: The Inventor of Flash Memory, Reborn
The former Toshiba Memory invented NAND flash — and now, newly listed, finds its entire 2026 output sold out to the AI boom
Companies
The former Toshiba Memory invented NAND flash — and now, newly listed, finds its entire 2026 output sold out to the AI boom
One of the world's top automotive-microcontroller makers — when its chips ran short, car factories around the world stopped
From advanced ceramics to chip packages, capacitors, tools, and solar — the sprawling 2 trillion yen technology group founded by a management legend
The world leader in chip test equipment with about 58% share — a direct beneficiary of every AI and HBM chip shipped
A near-monopoly in EUV mask blanks and a top global eyeglass-lens maker — Hoya spans both ends of the optics world
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