Companies
Mabuchi Motor: The Tiny Motors Moving Your Car
The Japanese maker behind about 70% of the small motors in car mirrors, locks, and HVAC — billions of units a year
Companies
The Japanese maker behind about 70% of the small motors in car mirrors, locks, and HVAC — billions of units a year
Nabtesco and Harmonic Drive quietly supply about 75% of the precision reducers the global robot industry runs on
How a Tokyo microscope maker came to dominate the world's gastrointestinal scopes — and bet its future on medtech
How a 100-year-old Japanese textile maker became the material backbone of jets, EVs, and the hydrogen economy
Fanuc and Yaskawa quietly run the world's factories — and they're racing to automate the labour the planet no longer has
Tokyo Electron, Advantest, Shin-Etsu, and Hoya quietly control choke points the entire semiconductor industry depends on
How a 1937 rangefinder startup became a ¥4.5 trillion group spanning cameras, medical AI, and the only credible non-EUV path to advanced-node chipmaking
Executive Summary Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (TSE: 7453), the company behind MUJI (無印良品, Mujirushi Ryōhin — literally “no-brand quality goods”), has transformed…
Asahi Shuzo (旭酒造), maker of the iconic Dassai (獺祭) brand, has transformed from a struggling rural brewery in Yamaguchi Prefecture into Japan’s…
The Japanese medtech giant behind global catheter innovation, blood management systems, and organ preservation technology — from a 1921 thermometer maker to a ¥1 trillion healthcare powerhouse
The company behind 50%+ of the world's blood cell analyzers, now expanding into cancer precision medicine
From post-war Kobe to global sportswear powerhouse — a deep dive into the company behind the #1 running shoe brand