Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 million vehicles per year.

Stock price: 7203 (TYO) JP¥2,068 -37.00 (-1.76%)

Customer service: 1800 425 0001

Founder: Kiichiro Toyoda

Founded: 28 August 1937, Japan

Subsidiaries: Lexus, Toyota Financial Services, Daihatsu, MORE

Parent organizations: Subaru Corporation, Denso, Toyota Group, Toyota Industries

Record label founded: Scion Audio/Visual

Keyence Corporation is a direct sales organization that develops and manufactures automation sensors, vision systems, barcode readers, laser markers, measuring instruments, and digital microscopes.

Stock price: 6861 (TYO) JP¥73,050 +1,100.00 (+1.53%)

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Founder: Takemitsu Takizaki

Founded: 27 May 1974, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Revenue: 495.8 crores USD (2018)

Number of employees: 6,602 (2017)

Net income: 198.2 crores USD (2018)

Subsidiaries: iPros Corporation, Keyence Deutschland Gmbh, MORE

Sony Group Corporation, commonly known as Sony and stylized as SONY is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Stock price: 6758 (TYO) JP¥14,270 +285.00 (+2.04%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Kenichiro Yoshida (1 Apr 2018–)

Founded: 7 May 1946, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 22.56 lakh crores JPY (US$206.95 billion, 2021)

Subsidiaries: Sony Pictures, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, MORE

Founders: Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuk

Recruit is a human resources company headquartered in Japan. It was founded as “Daigaku Shimbun Koukokusha” in 1960 as an advertisement company that specialized in university newspapers. It owns the job search engine Indeed and the employer review site Glassdoor.

Stock price: 6098 (TYO) JP¥7,378 +179.00 (+2.49%)

CEO: Hisayuki Idekoba (1 Apr 2021–)

Founder: Hiromasa Ezoe

Founded: 26 August 1963

Revenue: 2.27 lakh crores JPY (2020)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 512 (holding company); 45,688 (group) (as of March 31, 2017)

Subsidiaries: Recruit Staffing, Recruit Career Co., Ltd., MORE

SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors.

Stock price: 9984 (TYO) JP¥5,493 -15.00 (-0.27%)

CEO: Masayoshi Son (Feb 1986–)

Founder: Masayoshi Son

Founded: 3 September 1981, Tokyo, Japan

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 5,683.2 crores USD (2020)

Total assets: 34,234 crores USD (2020)

Subsidiaries: SoftBank, Yahoo Japan Corporation, MORE

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

CEO: Jun Sawada (Jun 2018–)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 11.94 lakh crores JPY (2021)

Stock price: 9432 (TYO) JP¥3,118 -32.00 (-1.02%)

Founder: Government of Japan

Founded: 1 April 1985, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 3,03,350 (2021)

Subsidiaries: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone East Corp., MORE

Tokyo Electron Limited, or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc. in 1963.

Stock price: 8035 (TYO) JP¥62,910 +1,720.00 (+2.81%)

CEO: Toshiki Kawai (1 Jan 2016–)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 11 November 1963

Number of employees: 12,742 (2020)

Subsidiaries: TOKYO ELECTRON DEVICE LTD., MORE

Founders: Tokuo Kubo, Toshio Kodaka

Parent organization: Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. is the largest chemical company in Japan, ranked No. 9 in Forbes Global 2000 for chemical sector. Shin-Etsu has the largest global market share for polyvinyl chloride, semiconductor silicon, and photomask substrates.

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 17,892 (as of April 28, 2014)

President: Shunzo Mori

Founded: 16 September 1926

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. is a public Japanese multinational retail holding company. In addition to its primary subsidiary Uniqlo, it owns several other brands, including J Brand, Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Princesse Tam-Tam, and Theory.

Stock price: 9983 (TYO) JP¥68,750 +890.00 (+1.31%)

Revenue: 2.13 lakh crores JPY (2018)

CEO: Tadashi Yanai (Sept 1984–)

Headquarters: Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan

Founder: Tadashi Yanai

Founded: 1 May 1963

Number of employees: 52,839 (2018)

Subsidiaries: Uniqlo, GU, Link Theory Holdings Co., Ltd., J Brand, MORE

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese bank holding and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG holds assets of around US$2,459 billion as of 2016 and is one of the “Three Great Houses” of the Mitsubishi Group alongside Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Stock price: 8306 (TYO) JP¥635 -0.60 (-0.09%)

CEO: Hironori Kamezawa (May 2020–)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 1,68,400 (2020)

Total assets: 3.1 lakh crores USD (2020)

AUM: $776 billion (2020)

Founded: 1 October 2005

Subsidiaries: MUFG Bank, MORE

Nidec Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of electric motors. Their products are found in hard-disk drives, electric appliances, automobiles and commercial and manufacturing equipment. The company has the largest global market share for the tiny spindle motors that power hard-disk drives.

Stock price: 6594 (TYO) JP¥13,400 +235.00 (+1.79%)

Headquarters: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

CEO: Jun Seki (2021–)

Founder: Shigenobu Nagamori

Founded: 23 July 1973

Number of employees: Nidec Corporation: 2,392 (as of March 31, 2017) Consolidated: 107,062 (as of March 31, 2017)

Subsidiaries: Nidec Leroy-Somer, Nidec Sankyo, MORE

Presidents: Shigenobu Nagamori, Jun Seki

KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed on October 1, 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp. It has its headquarters in the Garden Air Tower in Iidabashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. KDDI provides mobile cellular services using the “au by KDDI” brand.

Stock price: 9433 (TYO) JP¥3,346 -10.00 (-0.30%)

Revenue: 5.24 lakh crores JPY (2020)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 1 June 1984

Number of employees: 44,952 (2020)

Subsidiaries: OKINAWA CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY, MORE

Parent organization: Toyota

Founders: Kazuo Inamori, Government of Japan

Daikin Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational air conditioning manufacturing company headquartered in Osaka. It has operations in Japan, China, Australia, United States, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Daikin is the inventor of variable refrigerant flow air conditioners.

Customer service: 1860 180 3900

Stock price: 6367 (TYO) JP¥26,365 +505.00 (+1.95%)

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Masanori Togawa (27 Jun 2014–)

Founder: Akira Yamada

Founded: 25 October 1924, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 80,369 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2020)

Subsidiaries: Goodman Manufacturing, Daikin Europe N.V., MORE

Hitachi, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group and had formed part of the Nissan zaibatsu and later DKB Group and Fuyo Group of companies before DKB and Fuji Bank merged into the Mizuho Financial Group.

Stock price: 6501 (TYO) JP¥6,632 -49.00 (-0.73%)

CEO: Toshiaki Higashihara (1 Apr 2016–)

Founder: Namihei Odaira

Founded: 1910, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 8.77 lakh crores JPY (2020)

Net income: 8,940 crores JPY (2020)

Subsidiaries: Hitachi Energy, Hitachi Construction

The Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a drug manufacturer operating in Japan. It is a subsidiary controlled by Hoffmann-La Roche, which owns 62% of the company as of 30 June 2014. The company is headquartered in Tokyo. Osamu Nagayama is the current representative director and chairman.

Stock price: 4519 (TYO) JP¥3,874 +246.00 (+6.78%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Jūzō Ueno

Founded: 8 March 1943

Subsidiaries: Chugai Clinical Research Center Co., Ltd., MORE

Parent organizations: Roche Holding AG, Roche Holding Ltd

Hoya Corporation is a Japanese company manufacturing optical products such as photomasks, photomask blanks and hard disk drive platters, contact lenses and eyeglass lenses for the health-care market, medical photonics, lasers, photographic filters, and software.

Stock price: 7741 (TYO) JP¥18,495 +565.00 (+3.15%)

Headquarters: Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Hiroshi Suzuki (Jun 2000–)

Founded: 1 November 1941, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: HOYA MEDICAL SINGAPORE PTE LTD, MORE

DENSO Corporation is a global automotive components manufacturer headquartered in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. After becoming independent from Toyota Motor, the company was founded as Nippon Denso Co. Ltd. in 1949. About 25% of the company is owned by Toyota. Wikipedia

Key people: Nobuaki Katoh; (Chairman); Koji Kobayashi; (Vice Chairman); Koji Arima; (President and CEO)

Stock price: 6902 (TYO) JP¥8,736 +14.00 (+0.16%)

Headquarters: Kariya, Aichi, Japan

Owners: Toyota Motor (24.77%); Toyota Industries (8.72%)

Founded: 16 December 1949

Subsidiaries: Toyota, Denso Wave, Denso Ten, MORE

The Oriental Land Company, Limited, also known as Oriental Land TYO: 4661 is a Japanese leisure and tourism corporation headquartered in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan where it also owns and operates the Tokyo Disney Resort. The company operates in three segments, divided as theme parks, hotels, and other business.

Stock price: 4661 (TYO) JP¥18,685 +490.00 (+2.69%)

Headquarters: Urayasu, Chiba, Japan

CEO: Toshio Kagami (29 Jun 2005–)

Founder: Chiharu Kawasaki

Founded: 11 July 1960

Number of employees: 4,438

Parent organization: Keisei Electric Railway

Subsidiaries: MILIAL RESORT HOTELS Co., Ltd., Ikspiari, MORE

Z Holdings is a Tokyo-based holding company owned by A Holdings, a holding company controlled by SoftBank Group and Naver Corporation. It owns Yahoo! Japan, Japan’s largest portal website; Line, Japan’s largest messaging app; and PayPay, Japan’s largest mobile payment app. After finishing its merger of Yahoo!

Founded: 31 January 1996

Owner: A Holdings Corporation (65.3%); (Softbank Group (32.65%); Naver Corporation (32.65%))

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Line Corporation; Yahoo Japan Corporation; PayPay

Traded as: TYO: 4689

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Karuta by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.

Stock price: 7974 (TYO) JP¥53,380 +1,820.00 (+3.53%)

Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi

Founded: 23 September 1889, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

CEO: Shuntaro Furukawa (28 Jun 2018–)

Headquarters: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Revenue: 1.76 lakh crores JPY (2021)

Subsidiaries: The Pokémon Company, Monolith Soft, MORE

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Stock price: 7267 (TYO) JP¥3,237 -21.00 (-0.64%)

Customer service: 124229091119

Roadside assistance: 00 371 67 819 712

Founded: 24 September 1948, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Subsidiaries: Acura, Honda R&D, Atlas Honda, MORE

Founders: Soichiro Honda, Takeo Fujisawa

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic components, based in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto. Honorary Chairman Akira Murata started Murata Manufacturing as a personal venture in October, 1944.

Stock price: 6981 (TYO) JP¥8,725 +209.00 (+2.45%)

Revenue: 1.37 lakh crores JPY (2017)

Headquarters: Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan

Founder: Akira Murata

Founded: October 1944, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Number of employees: 75,326 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)

Net income: 16,210 crores JPY (2017)

Subsidiaries: Kanazawa Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., MORE

The Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company, with American and British roots. It is the largest pharmaceutical company in Asia and one of the top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world by revenue.

Stock price: 4502 (TYO) JP¥3,133 -17.00 (-0.54%)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 3.2 lakh crores JPY

CEO: Christophe Weber (1 Apr 2015–)

Founder: Chobei Takeda I

Founded: 1781, Doshomachi, Osaka, Japan

Total assets: 4,106.46 lakh crores JPY (2018)

Subsidiaries: Takeda Oncology, Takeda France SAS, MORE

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Group (SMBC Group; 株式会社三井住友銀行, Kabushikigaisha mitsui sumitomo ginkō) is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services institution headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The group operates in retail, corporate, and investment banking segment worldwide.

Stock price: 8316 (TYO) JP¥3,905 -10.00 (-0.26%)

 Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 2 December 2002, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MORE

Parent organizations: Mitsui Group, Sumitomo

Itochu Corporation is a Japanese corporation based in Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka and Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo. Itochu is one of the largest Japanese sogo shosha.

Stock price: 8001 (TYO) JP¥3,473 -41.00 (-1.17%)

CEO: Masahiro Okafuji (1 Apr 2010–)

Headquarters: Kita City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 4.84 lakh crores JPY (Mar. 2018)

Founder: Chubei Itoh

Founded: 1858

Subsidiaries: Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, FamilyMart, MORE

Video game: Burning Soldier

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited is a global pharmaceutical company and the second-largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. It achieved JPY 981.8 billion in revenue in 2019.

Stock price: 4568 (TYO) JP¥2,814 +94.00 (+3.46%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 15,348 (as of March 2020)

Founder: Takamine Jōkichi

Founded: 28 September 2005, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare, MORE

Executives: Sunao Manabe, Akio Sakurai, Hideyuki Hirano, MORE

Presidents: Joji Nakayama, Kiminori Nagao

SMC Corporation is a Japanese TOPIX Large 70 company founded in 1959 as Sintered Metal Corporation, which specializes in pneumatic control engineering to support industrial automation.

Stock price: 6273 (TYO) JP¥76,960 +840.00 (+1.10%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Katsunori Maruyama (Jul 2004–)

Founded: 27 April 1959

President: Katsunori Maruyama

Number of employees: 20,853 (2020)

Number of locations: Factories in 28 countries; Subsidiaries in 50 countries; Sales offices in 82 countries

Subsidiaries: SMC Corporation of America, MORE

7-Eleven, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores, headquartered in Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas. The chain was founded in 1927 as an ice house storefront in Dallas. It was named Tote’m Stores between 1928 and 1946.

Founder: Joe C. Thompson

Founded: 1927, Dallas, Texas, United States

CEO: Joseph DePinto (1 Dec 2005–)

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States

Number of locations: 71,800 (as of 31 December 2019)

Subsidiaries: Speedway, SEI Fuel Services, Inc., MORE

Parent organizations: Seven & I Holdings, SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN CO., LTD.

FANUC is a Japanese group of companies that provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems.

Stock price: 6954 (TYO) JP¥24,500 +955.00 (+4.06%)

CEO: Yoshiharu Inaba (Jun 2003–)

Headquarters: Oshino, Yamanashi, Japan

Founder: Seiuemon Inaba

Founded: 12 May 1972

Revenue: 63,556.8 crores JPY (2019)

Number of employees: 8,256

Subsidiaries: Korea Fanuc Corporation, Life Robotics Inc., MORE

Japan Tobacco Inc., abbreviated JT, is a cigarette manufacturing company. It is part of the Nikkei 225 index. In 2009 the company was listed at number 312 on the Fortune 500 list. The company is headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo and Japan Tobacco International’s headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.

Stock price: 2914 (TYO) JP¥2,345 -6.00 (-0.26%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Government of Japan

Founded: 1 April 1985

Number of employees: 48,529 (2011)

Subsidiaries: Japan Tobacco International, MORE

Parent organization: Government of Japan

Fujitsu Limited is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world’s sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the largest in Japan, in 2021.

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Customer service: 000 800 100 8917

Founded: 20 June 1935, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Stock price: 6702 (TYO) JP¥19,615 +65.00 (+0.33%)

Revenue: 3.59 lakh crores JPY (2021)

Number of employees: 1,26,400 (2021)

Subsidiaries: Fujitsu Fsas Inc., PFU Limited, MORE

Parent organization: Furukawa Group

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc, is a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the largest property/casualty insurance group in Japan in terms of revenue and is the parent company for the Tokio Marine Group which employs 39,000 people in 38 countries worldwide.

Stock price: 8766 (TYO) JP¥6,078 +82.00 (+1.37%)

CEO: Satoru Komiya (Jun 2019–)

Founded: 1879

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 41,101 (2019)

Subsidiaries: Tokio Marine Nichido, MORE

Parent organizations: Mitsubishi Group, The Master Trust Bank of Japan

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is one of the largest sogo shosha in Japan; it is part of the Mitsui Group, and Its business area covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more.

Stock price: 8031 (TYO) JP¥2,609 -12.50 (-0.48%)

CEO: Tatsuo Yasunaga (Apr 2015–)

Revenue: 81,023.5 crores JPY (2021)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 5,676 (Consolidated:45,624, 2020)

Founded: 25 July 1947

Subsidiaries: Mitsui Knowledge Industry, MORE

Parent organization: Mitsui Group

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho, is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name “mizuho” literally means “abundant rice” in Japanese and “harvest” in the figurative sense.

Stock price: 8411 (TYO) JP¥1,465 +1.00 (+0.07%)

CEO: Tatsufumi Sakai (Apr 2018–)

Revenue: 1.45 lakh crores JPY (2017)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 59,132 (2020)

Total assets: 1.85 lakh crores USD (2017)

Founded: 2001

Subsidiaries: Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Securities, MORE

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. On February 5, 2020, the company announced management changes effective from April 1, 2020.

Stock price: 4503 (TYO) JP¥1,825 +43.50 (+2.44%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka (20 Jun 2011–)

Number of employees: 17,217 (2016)

Founded: 1 April 2005, Tokyo, Japan

President: Yoshihiko Hatanaka

Total assets: 1,486 crores USD (2016)

Subsidiaries: Astellas Pharma US, Inc., MORE

FUJIFILM Corporation, trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals.

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 20 January 1934, Japan

Revenue: 2.32 lakh crores JPY (2019)

CEO: Shigetaka Komori (27 Jun 2003–)

Number of employees: 73,906 (2019)

Subsidiaries: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd, MORE

Parent organization: FUJIFILM HOLDINGS CORPORATION

Terumo Corporation was founded in 1921 as Red Line Thermometer Corporation by a group of medical scientists led by Dr. Kitasato Shibasaburō to produce medical thermometers in Japan.

Stock price: 4543 (TYO) JP¥4,854 +153.00 (+3.25%)

Headquarters: Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 17 September 1921

Number of employees: 23,319 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)

Subsidiaries: Terumo BCT, Inc., MicroVention, Inc., MORE

Executives: Shinjiro Sato, Fumihisa Hirose, Hiroshi Nagumo, MORE

Bridgestone Corporation is a Japanese multinational auto and truck parts manufacturer founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning “stone bridge” in Japanese.

Stock price: 5108 (TYO) JP¥4,967 +34.00 (+0.69%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Shuichi Ishibashi (24 Mar 2020–)

Revenue: 3.34 lakh crores JPY (2016)

Founder: Shōjirō Ishibashi

Founded: 1 March 1931, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Number of employees: 1,43,616 (2017)

Subsidiaries: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, MORE

NTT DATA Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967.

Stock price: 9613 (TYO) JP¥2,429 +44.00 (+1.84%)

Revenue: 2.31 lakh crores JPY (2021)

CEO: Yo Honma (19 Jun 2018–)

Headquarters: Koto City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 1,39,500 (2021)

Founded: 23 May 1988

Subsidiaries: NTT DATA, Inc., Everis Spain S.L.U., NTT Data MSE, MORE

Parent organization: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

The Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai. Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which the company chiefly operates.

Stock price: 9022 (TYO) JP¥16,105 -115.00 (-0.71%)

Headquarters: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Number of employees: 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)

Predecessor: Japanese National Railways (JNR)

President: Shin Kaneko

Founded: 1 April 1987, Tokyo, Japan

Parent organization: Japan Railways Group

Subsidiaries: Nippon Sharyo, Jr Tokai Takashimaya Co., Ltd., MORE

Olympus Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products. Olympus was established on 12 October 1919, initially specializing in microscopes and thermometers. Olympus holds roughly a 70-percent share of the global endoscope market, estimated to be worth approximately US$2.5 billion.

Stock price: 7733 (TYO) JP¥2,530 +89.00 (+3.65%)

Headquarters: Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Yasuo Takeuchi (1 Apr 2019–)

Revenue: 84,710.5 crores JPY (y/e March 2011)

Founder: Takeshi Yamashita

Founded: 12 October 1919, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 39,727 (31 March 2011)

Subsidiaries: Olympus America Inc., MORE

Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd., is a Japanese bank headquartered in Tokyo. It is a corporation held by Japan Post Holdings, in which the government of Japan has a majority stake.

Stock price: 7182 (TYO) JP¥963 +11.00 (+1.16%)

Customer service: 00 81 480-96-7628

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 1.85 lakh crores JPY (2019)

Founded: 1 September 2006

Total assets: 205 lakh crores JPY (2019)

Number of employees: 12,800 (2019)

Parent organization: Japan Post Holdings

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, established on 15 January 1921, is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi.

Stock price: 6503 (TYO) JP¥1,473 +3.00 (+0.20%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 4.39 lakh crores JPY (2017)

Founded: 15 January 1921, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 1,38,700 (2018)

Subsidiaries: Mitsubishi Electric Building Techno-Service, MORE

CEO: Takeshi Sugiyama (1 Apr 2018–), Masaki Sakuyama (1 Apr 2014–)

Video game: Smash Out

Panasonic Corporation, formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer.

Customer service: 1800 108 1333

Stock price: 6752 (TYO) JP¥1,261 -10.00 (-0.79%)

Headquarters: Kadoma, Osaka, Japan

Founder: Kōnosuke Matsushita

Founded: 13 March 1918, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Kazuhiro Tsuga (27 Jun 2012–)

Motto: A Better Life, A Better World

Subsidiaries: Sanyo, JVC, Panasonic Electric Works, MORE

Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese publicly traded conglomerate headquartered in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is mainly engaged in postal and logistics business, financial window business, banking business and life insurance business.

Stock price: 6178 (TYO) JP¥884 -2.70 (-0.30%)

CEO: Hiroya Masuda (6 Jan 2020–)

Revenue: 10,991 crores USD (2020)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 23 January 2006

Total assets: 2.64 lakh crores USD (2020)

Number of employees: 2,45,472 (2020)

Subsidiaries: Japan Post Service, Japan Post Bank, MORE

Toyota Industries Corporation is a Japanese machine maker. Originally, and still, a manufacturer of automatic looms, it is the company from which Toyota Motor Corporation developed. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of forklift trucks measured by revenues.

Stock price: 6201 (TYO) JP¥9,400 +20.00 (+0.21%)

Revenue: 2.21 lakh crores JPY (as of 03/31/2019)

Founder: Sakichi Toyoda

Founded: 18 November 1926

Headquarters: Kariya, Aichi, Japan

CEO: Mr.Hisahiro Koketsu

Subsidiaries: Toyota, Toyota Material Handling Europe, MORE

Parent organization: Toyota Group

Shiseido Company, Limited is a Japanese multinational cosmetic company. Its product categories consist of: skin care, makeup, body care, hair care and fragrances. It is one of the oldest cosmetic companies in the world. Founded in 1872, the company celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2012.

Stock price: 4911 (TYO) JP¥6,793 -40.00 (-0.59%)

Revenue: 92,088.8 crores JPY (2020)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Arinobu Fukuhara

Founded: 19 October 1872, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 46,000 (2021)

Subsidiaries: NARS Cosmetics, Shiseido Japan Co., Ltd., MORE

Kao Corporation is a chemical and cosmetics company headquartered in Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan.

Stock price: 4452 (TYO) JP¥6,066 -70.00 (-1.14%)

Revenue: 1.38 lakh crores JPY (2020)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Yoshihiro Hasebe (1 Jan 2021–)

Founder: Tomiro Nagase

Founded: June 1887

Number of employees: 33,409 (consolidated, 2020)

Subsidiaries: Kanebo Cosmetics, Molton Brown, MORE

Shimano, Inc. is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of cycling components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment. It produced golf supplies until 2005 and snowboarding gear until 2008. Headquartered in Sakai, Japan, the company has 32 consolidated subsidiaries and 11 unconsolidated subsidiaries.

Stock price: 7309 (TYO) JP¥32,140 +460.00 (+1.45%)

Headquarters: Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Founder: Shozaburo Shimano

Founded: February 1921, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 11,829 (consolidated, as of December 31, 2017)

President: Yozo Shimano

Subsidiaries: Shimano Europe Holding B.V., MORE

 Sysmex Corporation is a Japanese company headquartered in Kobe that is engaged in the health care business. Originally called TOA Medical Electronics, the Sysmex brand was established in 1978, and were mainly involved with haematology analysers.

Stock price: 6869 (TYO) JP¥14,870 +495.00 (+3.44%)

Headquarters: Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Number of employees: 9,231 (as of March 31, 2020)

Founded: 20 February 1968

CTO: Kaoru Asano

Subsidiaries: Sysmex America, Inc., Sysmex Europe GmbH, MORE

Executives: Alain Baverel, Frank Buescher, Kaoru Watanabe, MORE

Komatsu Ltd. or Komatsu is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry and military equipment, as well as diesel engines and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Stock price: 6301 (TYO) JP¥2,791 -10.00 (-0.36%)

Revenue: 2.44 lakh crores JPY (2019)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 13 May 1921, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 59,632 (Consolidated)

Net income: 15,380 crores JPY (2019)

Subsidiaries: Komatsu Forest AB, Komatsu Mining, MORE

Executives: Hiroyuki Umeda, Michael Blom, Sean Taylor, MORE

Renesas Electronics Corporation is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, initially incorporated in 2002 as Renesas Technology, the consolidated entity of the semiconductor.

Stock price: 6723 (TYO) JP¥1,498 +86.00 (+6.09%)

Headquarters: Koto City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Hidetoshi Shibata (Jul 2019–)

Founded: 1 November 2002

Number of employees: 19,546 (Consolidated, as of December 31, 2018)

Predecessor: NEC Electronics, Renesas Technology (chip units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi)

Subsidiaries: Integrated Device Technology, Intersil, MORE

Kubota Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Osaka. It was established in 1890.

Stock price: 6326 (TYO) JP¥2,510 -18.50 (-0.73%)

Customer service: 044 6104 1500

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Founder: Gonshiro Kubota

Founded: February 1890, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Masatoshi Kimata (8 Jul 2014–)

Number of employees: 40,202 (Report 2019)

Subsidiaries: Kubota Tractor Corporation, Kverneland Group, MORE

Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese paint and paint products manufacturing company. It is the fourth largest paint manufacturer globally based on revenue in 2020.

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Kenji Sakai (1 Apr 2009–)

Founded: 14 March 1881

Number of employees: 16,498 (as of March 31, 2016)

Type of business: Public KK

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. is the largest economic research and consulting firm in Japan, and a member of the Nomura Group. Established in 1965, the firm now employs over 13,000 people.

Stock price: 4307 (TYO) JP¥4,935 +60.00 (+1.23%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 452 crores USD (March, 2019)

CEO: Shingo Konomoto (1 Apr 2016–)

Founded: 1965

Number of employees: 6,353 (NRI Group 13,278) as of March 31, 2020

Subsidiaries: NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd., NRI Digital, Ltd, MORE

Parent organization: Nomura Holdings

ORIX Corporation, styled as ORIX, is a Japanese diversified financial services group headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and Osaka, Japan.

Stock price: 8591 (TYO) JP¥2,275 -28.50 (-1.24%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Makoto Inoue (Jan 2014–)

Revenue: 2.68 lakh crores JPY (~ $ 23.6 billion)

Founded: 17 April 1964, Kita Ward, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 35,912

Subsidiaries: ORIX Auto Corporation, MORE

Founders: Sanwa Bank, Nichimen Corporation

Unicharm Corporation is a Japanese company that manufactures disposable hygiene products, household cleaning products, specializing in the manufacture of diapers for both babies and adult incontinence, feminine hygiene products and pet care products.

Stock price: 8113 (TYO) JP¥4,810 -10.00 (-0.21%)

Customer service: 099719 88339

CEO: Takahisa Takahara (Jun 2004–)

Revenue: 71.42 crores JPY (2019)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Keiichiro Takahara

Founded: 10 February 1961

Subsidiaries: PT Uni-Charm Indonesia Tbk, MORE

Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Customer service: 1860 180 3366

Stock price: 7751 (TYO) JP¥2,645 +29.50 (+1.13%)

Headquarters: Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Fujio Mitarai (Sept 1995–)

Founded: 10 August 1937, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 1,97,673 (2017)

Subsidiaries: Canon Medical Systems Corporation, MORE

Founders: Takeshi Mitarai, Saburo Uchida, Goro Yoshida, Takeo Maeda

The East Japan Railway Company is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon in Japanese.

Stock price: 9020 (TYO) JP¥7,150 -75.00 (-1.04%)

CEO: Tetsuro Tomita (Apr 2012–)

Customer service: 00 81 50-2016-1603

Headquarters: Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 73,017 (as of 31 March 2013)

Founded: 1 April 1987, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Viewcard, Tokyo Monorail, Lumine Co., Ltd., MORE

Parent organization: Japan Railways Group

Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. Website. www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp. The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited (第一生命保険株式会社, Dai-ichi Seimei Hoken Kabushiki-kaisha), or Dai-ichi Life for short, is the third-largest life insurer in Japan by revenue, behind Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life.

Stock price: 8750 (TYO) JP¥2,378 -6.50 (-0.27%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 1 April 2010

Subsidiaries: Dai-ichi Life, MORE

Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines.

Customer service: 1800 102 1800

Stock price: 7269 (TYO) JP¥4,676 +16.00 (+0.34%)

Founder: Michio Suzuki

Founded: October 1909, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

CEO: Osamu Suzuki (2000–)

Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Subsidiaries: Maruti Suzuki, Pak Suzuki Motors, MORE

Kyocera Corporation is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as Kyoto Ceramic Company, Limited in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982.

Headquarters: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Stock price: 6971 (TYO) JP¥7,151 +172.00 (+2.46%)

Revenue: 1.58 lakh crores JPY (2018)

Founder: Kazuo Inamori

Founded: 1 April 1959, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Number of employees: 70,153 (March 31, 2017)

President: Hideo Tanimoto

Subsidiaries: Kyocera Document Solutions, AVX Corporation, MORE

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The company sells its vehicles under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands, with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo.

Stock price: 7201 (TYO) JP¥569 -1.60 (-0.28%)

Customer service: 1800 209 3456

Founded: 26 December 1933, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

CEO: Makoto Uchida (1 Dec 2019–)

Subsidiaries: Nissan Motor Indonesia, Infiniti Motor Company, MORE

Founders: Yoshisuke Aikawa, William Gorham, Masujiro Hashimoto, Rokuro Aoyama

Parent organization: Groupe Renault

Otsuka Holdings, Based on the corporate philosophy of ‘Otsuka – people creating new products for better health worldwide.

Stock price: 4578 (TYO) JP¥4,174 +33.00 (+0.80%)

CEO: Yoshiro Matsuo

Headquarters: Japan

Founded: 8 July 2008

Subsidiaries: Otsuka Pharmaceutical, MORE

Lasertec, a R&D-oriented fab-lite company, provides inspection and measurement solutions for semiconductor, FPD.

Stock price: 6920 (TYO) JP¥30,630 +680.00 (+2.27%)

Headquarters: Japan

President: Osamu Okabayashi

Founded: 13 August 1962

Subsidiary: Lasertec U.S.A., Inc.

Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd., is based in Hokkaido and operates a furniture retail chain. The Company sells living room furniture, storage furniture, dining furniture, office furniture, beds, and interior goods. Nitori Holdings also sells original brand merchandise and imported merchandise. 9843:JP18,430.00JPY.

Stock price: 9843 (TYO) JP¥18,520 +90.00 (+0.49%)

Headquarters: Japan

Founded: 3 March 1972

Subsidiaries: Nitori, Shimachu Co., Ltd., Aki-Home, Inc, MORE

Eisai Co., Ltd. is a Japanese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has some 10,000 employees, among them about 1,500 in research. Eisai is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a member of the Topix 100 and Nikkei 225 stock indices.

Stock price: 4523 (TYO) JP¥6,926 +40.00 (+0.58%)

Headquarters: Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 68,000 crores JPY (2019)

Number of employees: 1,864 (2019)

Founded: 6 December 1941

Subsidiaries: Eisai Europe Limited, Eisai SAS, Eisai Korea Inc., MORE

Executives: Yasushi Okada, Alexander Scott, MORE

Owners: Nippon Life, The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Japan Trustee Services Bank

ÆON Co., Ltd., commonly written AEON Co., Ltd., is a Japanese multinational holding company of ÆON Group. It has its headquarters in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture. It operates all the AEON Retail Stores directly in Japan. Meanwhile, AEON CO. BHD operates all the AEON Retail Stores directly in Malaysia.

Stock price: 8267 (TYO) JP¥2,812 +61.50 (+2.24%)

Headquarters: Chiba, Chiba, Japan

Revenue: 8.18 lakh crores JPY (2016)

Founded: 1758, Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan

Parent organization: Æon Group

Subsidiaries: AEON Mall Co., Ltd., Daiei, Aeon Retail Co., Ltd., MORE

Presidents: Motoya Okada, Akio Yoshida, Yoshiki Mori

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan’s largest homebuilder, specializing in prefabricated houses. The company is also engaged in the construction of factories, shopping centers, health care facilities, the management and operation of resort hotels, golf courses and fitness clubs.

Stock price: 1925 (TYO) JP¥3,372 -48.00 (-1.40%)

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Founder: Nobuo Ishibashi

Founded: 5 April 1955, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 44,947

President: Keiichi Yoshii

Subsidiaries: Daiwa Living Co., Ltd., Daiwa Lease Co., Ltd., MORE

CEO: Keiichi Yoshii (2019–), Takeo Higuchi (2004–)

Omron Corporation, styled as OMRON, is a Japanese electronics company based in Kyoto, Japan. Omron was established by Kazuma Tateishi in 1933 and incorporated in 1948. The company originated in an area of Kyoto called “Omuro”, from which the name “Omron” was derived.

Customer service: 0124 492 1700

Stock price: 6645 (TYO) JP¥11,830 +415.00 (+3.64%)

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Founder: Kazuma Tateishi

Founded: 10 May 1933, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Yoshihito Yamada (Jun 2011–)

Number of employees: 39,427 (June 2015)

Subsidiaries: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.,

Shionogi & Company, Limited is a Japanese pharmaceutical company best known for developing Crestor. Medical supply and brand name also uses Shionogi. Shionogi has business roots that date back to 1878, and was incorporated in 1919.

Stock price: 4507 (TYO) JP¥7,693 +143.00 (+1.89%)

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

CEO: Isao Teshirogi (1 Apr 2008–)

Founder: Gizaburo Shionogi

Founded: 5 June 1919

Number of employees: 6,082 (Consolidated)

President: Akira Katō

Subsidiaries: Shionogi Pharma Co., Ltd., MORE

Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators …

Customer service: 1800 200 6768

Stock price: 6502 (TYO) JP¥4,719 -25.00 (-0.53%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Satoshi Tsunakawa (19 Apr 2021–)

Founded: July 1875, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Toshiba TEC Corporation, MORE

Owners: Dai-ichi Life, Tobu Railway

Founders: Tanaka Hisashige, Ichisuke Fujioka

The Nexon Co., Ltd. is a Japanese–South Korean video game publisher that specializes in online games for PC and mobile. It maintains over 80 titles. Nexon was founded in Seoul, South Korea in 1994 by Kim Jung-ju and Jake Song. In 2005, the company moved its headquarters to Tokyo, Japan.

Stock price: 3659 (TYO) JP¥2,220 -11.00 (-0.49%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 26 December 1994, Seoul, South Korea

Number of employees: 6,441 (Dec. 2018)

Parent organization: NXC

Subsidiaries: Neople, NEXON Korea, Wizet, Pixelberry, MORE

Founders: Kim Jung-ju, Jake Song

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, are respectively headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Lyon, France.

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Masaya Nakamura

Founded: 31 March 2006, Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 710 (2018)

Parent organization: Bandai Namco Holdings

Sumitomo Corporation is one of the largest worldwide Sogo shosha general trading companies, and is a diversified corporation. The company was incorporated in 1919 and is a member company of the Sumitomo Group.

Stock price: 8053 (TYO) JP¥1,646 +1.50 (+0.09%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Shun’ya Tōji

Founded: 24 December 1919, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 74,638 (consolidated as of March 31, 2014)

Subsidiaries: SCSK Corporation, Summit, Inc., MORE

Presidents: Masayuki Hyodo, Toshikazu Nambu

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings is a Japanese insurance company. Its businesses include Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance. It is listed on the Nikkei 225.

Stock price: 8725 (TYO) JP¥3,453 +36.00 (+1.05%)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

 CEO: Noriyuki Hara (25 Jun 2020–)

Founded: 2010

Subsidiaries: Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, MORE

Parent o rganization: Toyota

Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. is a Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology company under the Kirin Holdings, and is among the 40 largest in the world by revenue. The company is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and is a member of the Nikkei 225 stock index.

Stock price: 4151 (TYO) JP¥3,285 +25.00 (+0.77%)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 7,532 (consolidated, as of December 31, 2017)

Founded: 1 July 1949

President: Nobuo Hanai

Subsidiaries: Kyowa Kirin International, Kyowa Kirin plus Co., Ltd., MORE

Executives: Fumihiko Kanai, Hiroki Takamatsu, Kenji Shibata, MORE

Parent organizations: Kirin Company, Kirin Holdings Company

Advantest Corporation is an American -japanese leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design, production.

Stock price: 6857 (TYO) JP¥10,400 +230.00 (+2.26%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 180 crores USD (2018)

CEO: Yoshiaki Yoshida (26 Jan 2017–)

Number of employees: 4,564 (2015)

Founded: 1 July 1954

President: Yoshiaki Yoshida

Subsidiaries: Verigy, W2BI, Advantest Europe GmbH, MORE

Ajinomoto Co., Inc. is a Japanese food and biotechnology corporation which produces seasonings, interlayer insulating materials for semiconductor packages for use in personal computers, cooking oils, frozen foods, beverage, sweeteners, amino acids, and pharmaceuticals.

Founder: Saburosuke Suzuki II

Founded: 20 May 1909, Japan

Stock price: 2802 (TYO) JP¥3,448 -24.00 (-0.69%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 1.07 lakh crores JPY (2020)

Customer service: 044 7190 0900

Subsidiaries: Ajinomoto Frozen Foods, Ajinomoto AGF, MORE

CEO: Takaaki Nishii (Jun 2015–), Masatoshi Ito (30 Jun 2009–)

OBIC Co., Ltd. provides computer system integration, office automation, consultation, and system support services primarily for small and medium size companies. The Company sells, leases, and maintains computers, peripherals, and related systems. OBIC also develops and sells customized software and network systems.

Stock price: 4684 (TYO) JP¥20,820 -50.00 (-0.24%)

Founded: 8 April 1968

Headquarters: Japan

Subsidiaries: Niigata OBIC System Engineering Co., Ltd., Obic Office Automation Co.,Ltd.

Toyota Tsusho Corporation is a sōgō shōsha, a member of the Toyota Group. Toyota Tsusho has a worldwide presence through its many subsidiaries and operating divisions, including over 150 offices, and 900 subsidiaries and affiliates around the world.

Stock price: 8015 (TYO) JP¥4,945 -115.00 (-2.27%)

CEO: Ichiro Kashitani (1 Apr 2018–)

Headquarters: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Number of employees: 56,827 (2018)

President: Ichiro Kashitani

Founded: 1 July 1948

Subsidiaries: NEXTY Electronics, Toyotsu Machinery Corporation, MORE

Parent organizations: Toyota, Toyota Group

Rakuten Group, Inc., stylized as “Rakuten”, is a Japanese electronic commerce and online retailing company based in Tokyo, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997.

Formerly: MDM, Inc. (1997–1999)

Owner: Hiroshi Mikitani (25.5%); Haruko Mikitani (8.40%); Japan Post Holdings (8.30%); Tencent (3.64%)

Stock price: 4755 (TYO) JP¥1,173 +17.00 (+1.47%)

CEO: Hiroshi Mikitani (7 Feb 1997–)

Founder: Hiroshi Mikitani

Founded: 7 February 1997

Headquarters: Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Rakuten Card, Rakuten Mobile, Inc., MORE

Kikkoman Corporation is a Japanese food manufacturer. Its main products and services include soy sauce, food seasoning and flavoring, mirin, shōchū, and sake, juice and other beverages, pharmaceuticals, and restaurant management services.

Stock price: 2801 (TYO) JP¥8,970 +180.00 (+2.05%)

Founded: 7 December 1917, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Headquarters: Noda, Chiba, Japan

CEO: Noriaki Horikiri (25 Jun 2013–)

Number of employees: 5,622

Subsidiaries: Kikkoman Soyfoods Co., Ltd., JFC International, MORE

Owners: The Oriental Land Company, The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Japan Trustee Services Bank

Nippon Steel Corporation, was formed in 2012 by the merger of the old Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal. The old Nippon Steel Corporation was established in 1970 by the merger of Fuji Iron & Steel and Yawata Iron & Steel. Nippon Steel is the world’s third largest steel producer by volume as of 2019.

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 6.18 lakh crores JPY (2019)

Founded: 1 April 1950

Number of employees: 1,05,796 (2019)

Stock price: 5401 (TYO) JP¥1,842 -34.00 (-1.81%)

President: Eiji Hashimoto

Net income: 25,169 crores JPY (2019)

Subsidiaries: Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., NS Solutions, MORE

Marubeni Corporation is a sōgō shōsha headquartered in Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest sogo shosha and has leading market shares in cereal and paper pulp trading as well as a strong electrical and industrial plant business. Marubeni is a member of the Mizuho keiretsu.

Stock price: 8002 (TYO) JP¥1,057 -15.50 (-1.45%)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 7.4 lakh crores JPY (Mar. 31 2019)

Founded: 1 December 1949

President: Masumi Kakinoki

Subsidiaries: MARUBENI-ITOCHU STEEL INC., MORE

CEO: Masumi Kakinoki (1 Apr 2019–), Fumiya Kokubu (1 Apr 2013–)

TDK Corporation is a Japanese multinational electronics company that manufactures electronic materials, electronic components, and recording and data-storage media. Its motto is “Contribute to culture and industry through creativity”.

Stock price: 6762 (TYO) JP¥4,630 +10.00 (+0.22%)

Headquarters: Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Shigenao Ishiguro (Jun 2016–)

Founder: Kenzo Saito

Founded: 7 December 1935, Japan

Number of employees: 1,02,883

Subsidiaries: TDK Electronics AG, TDK-Lambda Corporation, MORE

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. offers courier services. The Company provides goods delivery, cargo logistics, goods pickup, and other services.

Stock price: 9143 (TYO) JP¥2,620 +98.00 (+3.89%)

Headquarters: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Founded: 22 March 2006

Subsidiaries: Sagawa Express, SGH Global Japan Co., Ltd., MORE

Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Subaru Corporation, the twenty-first largest automaker by production worldwide in 2017. Subaru cars are known for their use of a boxer engine layout in most vehicles above 1500 cc.

Founder: Kenji Kita

Founded: 15 July 1953

CEO: Tomomi Nakamura (Jun 2018–)

Headquarters: Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan

Predecessor: Nakajima Aircraft Company

Parent organization: Subaru Corporation

Subsidiaries: Subaru Tecnica International, Subaru France

SOMPO Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese insurance holdings company. It is listed on the Nikkei 225. The firm is considered one of three top insurers in Japan.

Stock price: 8630 (TYO) JP¥4,964 -17.00 (-0.34%)

Headquarters: Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 440

Founded: 1 April 2001

Subsidiaries: Sompo Japan Insurance, Sompo Care, Inc., MORE

Secom Co., Ltd. is a security company in Japan. It has operations in Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Myanmar.

Stock price: 9735 (TYO) JP¥7,872 +68.00 (+0.87%)

Headquarters: Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Makoto Iida

Founded: 7 July 1962

Subsidiaries: Secom Trust Systems Co., Ltd, MORE

The SCB is the central financial institution in Japan for the nationwide network of shinkin banks, comprising 254 banks and approximately 7,100 branches.

Stock price: 8421 (TYO) JP¥2,42,500 +400.00 (+0.17%)

Headquarters: Japan

Founded: 1 June 1950

Subsidiaries: Shinkin Securities Co., Ltd., MORE

Sekisui House is one of Japan’s largest homebuilders. It was founded on August 1, 1960 and is headquartered in Osaka. In 2009, Sekisui House expanded into Australia and Russia before expanding into China and the United States the following year.

Stock price: 1928 (TYO) JP¥2,360 -24.50 (-1.03%)

Headquarters: Osaka, Osaka, Japan

President: Yoshihiro Nakai

Founded: 1 August 1960

Subsidiaries: Sekiwa Real Estate, Ltd., MORE

Asahi Kasei Corporation is a multinational Japanese chemical company. Its main products are chemicals and materials science. It was founded in May 1931, using the paid in capital of Nobeoka Ammonia Fiber Co., Ltd, a Nobeoka, Miyazaki based producer of ammonia, nitric acid, and other chemicals.

Stock price: 3407 (TYO) JP¥1,100 -27.50 (-2.44%)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

CEO: Hideki Kobori (1 Apr 2016–)

Number of employees: 34,670 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)

Founder: Shitagau Noguchi

Founded: 21 May 1931

Subsidiaries: Asahi Kasei Homes Corp., MORE

Kirin Holdings Company, Limited produces beer, soft drinks, food products, whisky, and pharmaceuticals. The Company sells its products in Japan and overseas.

Stock price: 2503 (TYO) JP¥1,883 +1.50 (+0.08%)

Founded: 1885, Japan

CEO: Yoshinori Isozaki (31 Mar 2012–)

Headquarters: Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: Kirin Company, Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., MORE

Nomura Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese financial holding company and a principal member of the Nomura Group.

Stock price: 8604 (TYO) JP¥506 +3.20 (+0.64%)

CEO: Kentaro Okuda (1 Apr 2020–)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Founder: Tokushichi Nomura II

Founded: 25 December 1925, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Number of employees: 15,748 (2020)

Subsidiaries: Nomura Securities, Nomura Research Institute, MORE

NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC.

Stock price: 6701 (TYO) JP¥5,430 +20.00 (+0.37%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Revenue: 2.9 lakh crores JPY (2021)

CEO: Takayuki Morita (1 Apr 2021–)

Founder: Kunihiko Iwadare

Founded: 17 July 1899, Tokyo, Japan

Subsidiaries: NEC Solution Innovators, NEC Platforms, Ltd., MORE

Parent organizations: Western Electric, AT&T Corporation

ENEOS Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese petroleum and metals conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012 the multinational corporation consisted of 24,691 employees worldwide and, as of March 2013, JX Holdings was the forty-third largest company in the world by revenue.

Stock price: 5020 (TYO) JP¥436 -3.10 (-0.71%)

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 1 April 2010

Key people: Isao Matsushita (President)

Number of employees: 24,691 (2012)

Subsidiaries: Eneos, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, Nippon Oil, MORE

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., formerly Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., is a Japanese financial holding company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It provides an assortment of financial products to retail and wholesale customers, with a focus on asset management, financial brokerage and real estate services.

Stock price: 8309 (TYO) JP¥3,870 -10.00 (-0.26%)

Number of employees: 21,113 (2015)

Headquarters: Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 1 February 2002

Subsidiaries: Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, MORE

The Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts is a hospitality company headquartered in Singapore and founded in 1975. It is a subsidiary of developer UOL Group and operates more than 20 luxury hotels, resorts and serviced suites across Asia, North America, Oceania, and Europe.

Headquarters: Singapore

Founded: 1995

Number of locations: 40 (2018)

Brands: Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts, PARKROYAL Hotels and Resorts

Parent organizations: Pan Pacific Hotels Group, UOL Group Limited

Subsidiaries: Pan Pacific (Shanghai) Hotels Management Co., Ltd, MORE

INPEX Corporation is a Japanese oil company established in February 1966 as North Sumatra Offshore Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. INPEX is the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in Japan, with global exploration, development and production projects in 20 countries.

Stock price: 1605 (TYO) JP¥989 0.00 (0.00%)

Owner: Government of Japan through JOGMEC (18.96%)

Headquarters: Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees: 3,189

Key people: Kunihiko Matsuo, Chairman; Naoki Kuroda, President

Founded: 3 April 2006

Subsidiaries: Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd., Inpex Masela, Ltd., MORE