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Furukawa Bets on Light
The 140-year-old copper house bought optical fibre at the top of the telecom bubble - two decades later the assets finally fit the market
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The 140-year-old copper house bought optical fibre at the top of the telecom bubble - two decades later the assets finally fit the market
How rollable ribbon fibre and fusion splicers turned a 140-year-old cable maker into a data-centre bottleneck supplier
Why a 1959 spin-off from Suwa Seikosha pivoted from precision watch movements into inkjet printheads, 3LCD projectors with ~40% global share, and industrial robots — Japan's most under-appreciated B2B technology compounder.
How Hon Hai's 2016 acquisition saved Sharp, the pivot away from large-TV LCDs, and the post-Kameyama footprint that makes Sharp Japan's most studied corporate-rescue case.
The Tesla battery deal, the airline IFE monopoly, and the appliance giant trying to be three companies at once. Inside the 2022 holdco transition.
The maker of the legendary TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and a global leader in electronic drums and synthesizers
A major global printer and MFP maker that began in 1908 making sewing machines — a century-long reinvention
Alongside Koito, the Japanese maker that lights the world's cars — and uniquely makes its own LED chips
A Japanese specialist in the fine-pitch connectors inside phones and devices — and one of the highest-margin component makers anywhere
A top global maker of the multilayer ceramic capacitors that fill every smartphone and car by the hundreds and thousands
From the windows of skyscrapers to display substrates and semiconductor photomask glass — inside the world's biggest glass company
From advanced ceramics to chip packages, capacitors, tools, and solar — the sprawling 2 trillion yen technology group founded by a management legend