This article lists the largest companies in Japan in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
2020 Fortune list
This list displays the all 53 Japanese companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2019.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | Toyota | Automotive | 275,288 | 19,096 | 359,542 | Toyota |
| 2 | 39 | Honda | Automotive | 137,332 | 4,192 | 218,674 | Tokyo |
| 3 | 42 | Mitsubishi | Conglomerate | 135,940 | 4,924 | 86,098 | Tokyo |
| 4 | 60 | Japan Post Holdings | Conglomerate | 109,915 | 4,449 | 245,472 | Tokyo |
| 5 | 62 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | Telecommunications | 109,448 | 7,867 | 319,039 | Tokyo |
| 6 | 72 | Itochu | Trading | 100,522 | 4,611 | 151,430 | Tokyo |
| 7 | 83 | Nissan | Automotive | 90,863 | −6,174 | 144,933 | Yokohama |
| 8 | 94 | SoftBank Group | Conglomerate | 87,440 | −8,844 | 80,909 | Tokyo |
| 9 | 106 | Hitachi | Conglomerate | 80,639 | 806 | 301,056 | Tokyo |
| 10 | 115 | AEON | Retail | 78,930 | 246 | 290,196 | Chiba |
| 11 | 122 | Sony | Conglomerate | 75,972 | 5,355 | 111,700 | Tokyo |
| 12 | 123 | ENEOS Holdings | Oil and Gas | 75,897 | −1,728 | 40,983 | Tokyo |
| 13 | 130 | Nippon Life | Insurance | 74,048 | 1,767 | 92,122 | Osaka |
| 14 | 153 | Panasonic | Electronics | 68,897 | 2,076 | 259,385 | Osaka |
| 15 | 161 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group | Financials | 67,135 | 4,858 | 138,570 | Tokyo |
| 16 | 165 | Dai-ichi Life | Insurance | 65,434 | 298 | 63,719 | Tokyo |
| 17 | 172 | Mitsui | Conglomerate | 63,327 | 3,601 | 45,624 | Tokyo |
| 18 | 173 | Marubeni | Trading | 62,799 | −1,816 | 49,515 | Tokyo |
| 19 | 177 | Toyota Tsusho | Trading | 61,570 | 1,247 | 66,067 | Nagoya |
| 20 | 178 | Seven & I Holdings Co. | Retail | 60,952 | 2,002 | 98,039 | Tokyo |
| 21 | 188 | Tokyo Electric Power Company | Electric utility | 57,407 | 466 | 37,892 | Tokyo |
| 22 | 198 | Nippon Steel | Steel | 54,465 | −3,969 | 116,462 | Tokyo |
| 23 | 226 | Tokio Marine | Insurance | 50,270 | 2,389 | 41,101 | Tokyo |
| 24 | 236 | Idemitsu Kosan | Oil and Gas | 48,892 | −211 | 16,020 | Tokyo |
| 25 | 237 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group | Banking | 48,880 | 6,474 | 86,443 | Tokyo |
| 26 | 238 | Sumitomo Group | Trading | 48,746 | 1,576 | 72,642 | Tokyo |
| 27 | 241 | KDDI | Telecommunications | 48,171 | 5,884 | 44,952 | Tokyo |
| 28 | 246 | MS&AD Insurance Group | Insurance | 47,537 | 1,316 | 41,942 | Tokyo |
| 29 | 247 | Denso | Automotive | 47,400 | 626 | 170,932 | Kariya |
| 30 | 300 | Mitsubishi Electric | Electronics | 41,045 | 2,040 | 146,518 | Tokyo |
| 31 | 311 | Daiwa House | Construction | 40,288 | 2,149 | 47,133 | Osaka |
| 32 | 334 | Meiji Yasuda Life | Insurance | 37,466 | 1,912 | 43,676 | Tokyo |
| 33 | 339 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Industrials | 37,172 | 801 | 81,631 | Tokyo |
| 34 | 349 | Mizuho Financial Group | Banking | 36,669 | 4,126 | 57,264 | Tokyo |
| 35 | 356 | Fujitsu | Telecommunications | 35,483 | 1,472 | 129,609 | Tokyo |
| 36 | 359 | Aisin Seiki | Automotive | 34,810 | 221 | 119,535 | Kariya |
| 37 | 363 | Sompo Holdings | Insurance | 34,587 | 1,127 | 47,535 | Tokyo |
| 38 | 365 | JFE Holdings | Steel | 34,305 | −1,819 | 64,009 | Tokyo |
| 39 | 376 | Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings | Chemicals | 33,418 | 497 | 69,609 | Tokyo |
| 40 | 380 | Canon Inc. | Electronics | 32,961 | 1,148 | 187,041 | Tokyo |
| 41 | 387 | Bridgestone | Automotive | 32,340 | 2,684 | 143,589 | Tokyo |
| 42 | 390 | Suzuki Motor | Automotive | 32,086 | 1,235 | 68,499 | Hamamatsu |
| 43 | 391 | Sumitomo Life Insurance | Insurance | 32,063 | 48 | 42,954 | Osaka |
| 44 | 400 | Mazda | Automotive | 31,551 | 112 | 50,479 | Hiroshima |
| 45 | 402 | Toshiba | Electronics | 31,179 | −1,054 | 125,648 | Tokyo |
| 46 | 405 | Subaru | Automotive | 30,758 | 1,404 | 35,045 | Tokyo |
| 47 | 414 | Takeda Pharmaceutical | Pharmaceuticals | 30,272 | 407 | 47,495 | Tokyo |
| 48 | 417 | Medipal Holdings | Retail | 29,921 | 349 | 15,422 | Tokyo |
| 49 | 428 | Kansai Electric Power Company | Electric utility | 29,288 | 1,196 | 31,850 | Osaka |
| 50 | 445 | Sumitomo Electric Industries | Electronics | 28,578 | 669 | 283,910 | Osaka |
| 51 | 450 | NEC | Electronics | 28,469 | 920 | 112,638 | Tokyo |
| 52 | 454 | Chubu Electric Power | Electric utility | 28,200 | 1,504 | 28,448 | Nagoya |
| 53 | 470 | East Japan Railway Company | Transportation | 27,102 | 1,825 | 85,114 | Tokyo |
2020 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2019. The top 50 companies in the Forbes 2000 from Japan are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Toyota | Toyota | 280.5 | 22.7 | 495.1 | 173.3 | Automotive |
| 2 | 43 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | Tokyo | 109.6 | 7.9 | 211.1 | 83.0 | Telecommunications |
| 3 | 52 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group | Tokyo | 60.1 | 5.4 | 2,893.0 | 51.8 | Financials |
| 4 | 58 | Sony | Tokyo | 79.2 | 6.0 | 208.3 | 78.7 | Conglomerate |
| 5 | 66 | SoftBank Group | Tokyo | 87.4 | 2.9 | 362.6 | 89.7 | Conglomerate |
| 6 | 72 | Japan Post Holdings | Tokyo | 112.3 | 4.7 | 2,680.2 | 32.7 | Conglomerate |
| 7 | 80 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group | Tokyo | 48.4 | 6.4 | 1,954.8 | 36.4 | Banking |
| 8 | 83 | Honda | Tokyo | 142.4 | 4.3 | 188.5 | 42.6 | Automotive |
| 9 | 104 | Mitsubishi | Tokyo | 140.8 | 4.8 | 167.0 | 32.4 | Conglomerate |
| 10 | 122 | KDDI | Tokyo | 47.8 | 5.9 | 86.5 | 66.9 | Telecommunications |
| 11 | 135 | Itochu | Osaka | 103.1 | 4.9 | 104.6 | 29.6 | Trading |
| 12 | 151 | Tokio Marine | Tokyo | 48.5 | 2.6 | 224.5 | 33.0 | Insurance |
| 13 | 166 | Mitsui | Tokyo | 65.5 | 3.7 | 114.3 | 24.1 | Conglomerate |
| 14 | 198 | Hitachi | Tokyo | 82.9 | 1.8 | 94.6 | 29.3 | Conglomerate |
| 15 | 215 | MS&AD Insurance Group | Tokyo | 50.6 | 2.6 | 220.1 | 16.7 | Insurance |
| 16 | 230 | Dai-ichi Life | Tokyo | 62.6 | 1.8 | 560.8 | 14.4 | Insurance |
| 17 | 234 | Seven & I Holdings Co. | Tokyo | 61.0 | 2.0 | 55.6 | 29.3 | Retail |
| 18 | 242 | Mizuho Financial Group | Tokyo | 35.9 | 0.8 | 1,874.9 | 29.8 | Banking |
| 19 | 247 | Central Japan Railway Company | Nagoya | 17.0 | 3.7 | 89.0 | 31.2 | Transportation |
| 20 | 256 | Panasonic | Osaka | 70.4 | 2.6 | 61.8 | 18.0 | Electronics |
| 21 | 261 | East Japan Railway Company | Tokyo | 27.1 | 1.8 | 79.1 | 27.8 | Transportation |
| 22 | 283 | Japan Tobacco | Tokyo | 20.0 | 3.2 | 51.1 | 33.4 | Tobacco |
| 23 | 290 | Sumitomo Group | Tokyo | 49.9 | 2.7 | 77.1 | 14.4 | Trading |
| 24 | 292 | Orix | Osaka | 21.3 | 3.0 | 118.2 | 15.4 | Financials |
| 25 | 294 | Mitsubishi Electric | Tokyo | 41.3 | 2.1 | 40.9 | 26.9 | Electronics |
| 26 | 299 | Nomura Holdings | Tokyo | 19.1 | 2.3 | 425.5 | 13.0 | Financials |
| 27 | 321 | JXTG Holdings | Tokyo | 95.5 | 1.5 | 81.6 | 11.5 | Oil and Gas |
| 28 | 324 | Daiwa House | Osaka | 40.0 | 2.3 | 42.7 | 17.1 | Construction |
| 29 | 327 | Bridgestone | Tokyo | 32.3 | 2.7 | 36.3 | 20.7 | Automotive |
| 30 | 355 | Shin-Etsu Chemical | Tokyo | 14.2 | 2.9 | 29.9 | 46.7 | Chemicals |
| 31 | 359 | Canon Inc. | Tokyo | 33.0 | 1.1 | 43.9 | 22.7 | Electronics |
| 32 | 360 | Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance | Tokyo | 32.8 | 1.3 | 111.8 | 11.9 | Insurance |
| 33 | 367 | Mitsui Fudosan | Tokyo | 17.5 | 1.5 | 67.2 | 18.2 | Real estate |
| 34 | 375 | Daikin | Osaka | 23.5 | 1.7 | 26.1 | 38.3 | Electrical equipment |
| 35 | 383 | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings | Tokyo | 13.8 | 1.8 | 509.3 | 11.1 | Financials |
| 36 | 394 | Denso | Kariya | 47.4 | 0.6 | 52.4 | 27.6 | Automotive |
| 37 | 404 | Nippon Steel | Tokyo | 55.7 | 2.3 | 71.4 | 7.9 | Steel |
| 38 | 405 | Komatsu | Tokyo | 23.2 | 1.9 | 34.3 | 18.2 | Industrials |
| 39 | 422 | Fujitsu | Tokyo | 35.7 | 1.4 | 28.7 | 20.0 | Real estate |
| 40 | 427 | Tokyo Electric Power Company | Tokyo | 58.9 | 5.2 | 110.8 | 5.4 | Electric utility |
| 41 | 428 | Fast Retailing | Yamaguchi | 20.5 | 1.4 | 22.8 | 49.2 | Retail |
| 42 | 429 | Toyota Industries | Kariya | 20.0 | 1.3 | 48.9 | 15.8 | Automotive |
| 43 | 434 | Recruit Holdings | Tokyo | 21.9 | 1.8 | 18.3 | 49.1 | Electronics |
| 44 | 442 | Marubeni | Tokyo | 63.6 | 1.4 | 62.7 | 8.5 | Trading |
| 45 | 447 | Kansai Electric Power Company | Osaka | 30.1 | 1.5 | 68.6 | 9.2 | Pharmaceuticals |
| 46 | 449 | Fujifilm | Tokyo | 21.7 | 1.4 | 31.8 | 19.7 | Consumer goods |
| 47 | 455 | Chubu Electric Power Company | Nagoya | 28.6 | 1.6 | 49.8 | 10.3 | Electric utility |
| 48 | 479 | Subaru | Tokyo | 30.0 | 1.3 | 29.1 | 15.6 | Automotive |
| 49 | 480 | Suzuki Motor | Hamamatsu | 33.6 | 1.1 | 31.7 | 15.7 | Automotive |
| 50 | 481 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Tokyo | 37.0 | 1.5 | 51.0 | 8.7 | Industrials |
References
- ^ "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
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