formerly is one of Japan's 15 largest industrial groups. Its origins date back to 1875, founder

Furukawa Ichibei was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largest industrial conglomerates in Japan, specializing in electrical goods, chemicals and metals. He bought the Ashio copper mine from the Japanese government in 1877, which he later org ...

. This group specialized in

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

, electronics, and

chemicals A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ...

industry before

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Now, the predominant companies are

Fuji Electric , operating under the brand name FE, is a Japanese electrical equipment company, manufacturing pressure transmitters, flowmeters, gas analyzers, controllers, inverters, pumps, generators, ICs, motors, and power equipment. History Fuji Electric ...

and

Furukawa Electric is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company. The company was founded by Furukawa Ichibei in 1884 in Yokohama when a copper-smelting facility and a wire manufacturing factory were established. Furukawa was a Japanese businessman wh ...

as well as

Fujitsu 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 la ...

FANUC FANUC ( or ; often styled Fanuc) is a Japanese group of companies that provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally of Japan, Fanuc America Corporat ...

, and

Advantest is a Japanese leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design, production and maintenance of electronic systems including fiber optic and w ...

. Other well-known companies include

Yokohama Rubber is a tire company based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded and began on October 13, 1917, in a joint venture between Yokohama Cable Manufacturing and B.F. Goodrich. In 1969, the company expanded to the United States as Yokohama Tire C ...

Member companies

* Furukawa Subgroup ** 古河機械金属株式会社 Furukawa Co., Ltd. (Mining) *** 古河林業株式会社 Furukawa Ringyo Co., Ltd (Home and Wood) *** 古河産機システムズ株式会社 Furukawa Industrial Machinery Systems Co., Ltd. *** 株式会社トウペ Tohpe Corporation (Paint) * Furukawa Electric Group ** 古河電気工業株式会社 The Furukawa Electric Co *** 古河電池株式会社 Furukawa Battery Co *** 日本製箔株式会社 Nippon Foil Mfg. Co *** 古河産業株式会社 Furukawa Sangyo Kaisha *** 古河物流株式会社 Furukawa Logistics Co *** 古河総合設備株式会社 Furukawa Engineering & Construction *** 株式会社古河テクノマテリアル Furukawa Techno Material Co *** 古河AS株式会社 Furukawa Automotive Systems *** 岡野電線株式会社 Okano Electric Wire Co. *** ミハル通信株式会社 Miharu Communication Inc *** 古河サーキットフォイル株式会社 Furukawa Circuit Foil Co *** 超音波工業株式会社 Ultrasonic Engineering Co. *** 関東電化工業株式会社 Kanto Denka Kogyo Co ** 株式会社ADEKA Adeka Corporation *** 日本農薬株式会社 Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. **

Yokohama Rubber Company is a tire company based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded and began on October 13, 1917, in a joint venture between Yokohama Cable Manufacturing and B.F. Goodrich. In 1969, the company expanded to the United States as Yokohama Tire C ...

** Fuji Electric Holdings Co (Group) ***

*** 富士電機リテイルシステムズ株式会社 Fuji Electric Retail Systems Co. *** 富士電機アドバンストテクノロジー株式会社 Fuji Electric Advanced Technology Co *** 富士電機ITソリューション株式会社 Fuji Electric IT Solutions Co. *** 富士物流株式会社 Fuji Logistics Co., Ltd **

(Group) ***

Fujitsu Ten is a Japanese company developing and manufacturing car audio, video, navigation and control systems. The headquarters is located in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As its name shows, Denso Ten belongs to the Denso group led by Denso Corp., wh ...

***

FANUC Robotics FANUC ( or ; often styled Fanuc) is a Japanese group of companies that provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally of Japan, Fanuc America Corporat ...

, world's largest robotics company ***

, largest

DRAM Dynamic random-access memory (dynamic RAM or DRAM) is a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell, usually consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal-oxid ...

testing company *** 株式会社富士通ビジネスシステム FUJITSU BUSINESS SYSTEMS LTD. *** 株式会社富士通アドバンストエンジニアリング FUJITSU ADVANCED ENGINEERING LIMITED ** 日本軽金属株式会社 Nippon Light Metal Co.,Ltd (Group) *** 日本ギア工業株式会社 NIPPON GEAR CO.,LTD. *** 日軽産業株式会社 Nikkei Sangyo Co., Ltd. ** 日本ゼオン株式会社 Zeon Corporation (Group) *** 渋沢倉庫株式会社 Shibusawa Warehouse Company, Limited ** Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co **

Mizuho Bank is the integrated retail and corporate banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group (; ), the third largest financial services company in Japan, with total assets of approximately $1.8 trillion in 2017. Mizuho is one of the three so-called Japanese ...

Sompo Japan Insurance , formerly NKSJ Holdings and , is a Japanese insurance company. It is the second-largest property insurance company in Japan only behind Tokio Marine, with market share of 19.3% in 2007. The “Sompo” in the company's name means in Japanese, t ...

Member companies which are in the
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* Furukawa Co., Ltd. *

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* {{Keiretsu, state=collapsed Conglomerate companies of Japan Zaibatsu Business families Japanese companies established in 1875

Member companies

Member companies which are in the Nikkei 225 The Nikkei 225, or , more commonly called the ''Nikkei'' or the ''Nikkei index'' (), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (''The Nikkei'') newspaper since 1950 ...

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Member companies which are in the
Nikkei 225 The Nikkei 225, or , more commonly called the ''Nikkei'' or the ''Nikkei index'' (), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (''The Nikkei'') newspaper since 1950 ...