Nikkei 225
34 companies
Aisin Corporation
Automotive Parts
Forges transmissions, brakes, and powertrains for Toyota and global automakers, synchronizing component delivery to just-in-time assembly lines across...
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Food & Beverages
Ferments amino acids and umami seasonings from bacterial cultures, extracting glutamate and lysine that flavor processed foods and fortify animal feed...
ANA Holdings Inc.
Airlines
Coordinates migratory flocks across vast routes, gathering smaller carriers into centralized hubs where passengers redistribute to distant nests.
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
Beverages
Asahi's brewing empire runs on yeast colonies converting sugar to alcohol in massive fermentation vessels. Like the fungal networks that captured the...
Astellas Pharma Inc.
Pharmaceuticals
Astellas targets urology and oncology with the precision of a parasitoid wasp—identifying specific cellular vulnerabilities, injecting gene therapies...
Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.
Gaming & Entertainment
Bandai Namco is a major entertainment company formed from the merger of Bandai and Namco, known for video games, toys, and anime properties. The compa...
Bridgestone Corporation
Automotive Parts
Bridgestone operates the world's largest tire distribution network, a biological parallel to mycorrhizal fungal networks that connect forest ecosystem...
Capcom Co., Ltd.
Gaming
Japanese game studio cultivating multi-decade franchises—Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter growing like sequoias. Each title a new growth...
Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.
Insurance
Dai-ichi Life pools mortality risk like schools of fish confusing predators. Its actuarial tables spread individual death uncertainty across millions...
Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
Pharmaceuticals
Daiichi Sankyo hunts disease like parasitoid wasps targeting specific hosts. Its drug pipeline screens millions of molecules, testing chemical weapons...
Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Industrial Equipment
Daikin Industries functions as the global HVAC ecosystem's thermoregulatory system, maintaining temperature homeostasis across 98,000 employees and op...
Daiwa Securities Group Inc.
Financial Services
Daiwa Securities trades capital flows like cleaner fish servicing whale sharks. Its investment banking connects corporate giants to liquidity pools, t...
Denso Corporation
Automotive Parts
Denso supplies automotive components like symbiotic bacteria essential to host survival. Its just-in-time delivery synchronizes with Toyota assembly l...
Eisai Co., Ltd.
Pharmaceuticals
Japanese pharmaceutical focusing on neurology and oncology—Alzheimer's drug development like searching for keys to locked pathways. Patient-centric dr...
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. (Uniqlo)
Retail & Apparel
Fast Retailing posted 3.4 trillion yen revenue in FY2025 ($22.2 billion, +9.7% from 3.1 trillion FY2024), with net income surging 16.39% and operating...
Fujitsu Limited
Information Technology
Fujitsu is a leading IT services and solutions provider offering computing products, telecommunications equipment, and business consulting. The compan...
Hitachi, Ltd.
Technology & Infrastructure
Hitachi's "True One Hitachi" transformation consolidates 573 subsidiaries and 270,000 employees across IT, operational technology, and physical produc...
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Automotive
Honda reported 21.69 trillion yen revenue for fiscal year ending March 2025 (+6.17% growth) while cutting operating profit forecast 21% to 550 billion...
Kajima Corporation
Construction
Builds like termite mounds rising from Japanese soil - coordinated teams assembling towers and tunnels from modular components. Each project reshapes...
Kao Corporation
Consumer Goods & Chemicals
Chemical synthesis like a pharmaceutical gland - surfactant molecules engineered to break surface tension, lift dirt, condition hair. Research labs is...
Keyence Corporation
Industrial Automation & Sensors
Keyence Corporation achieves the industrial world's highest operating margin - 51.9% in FY2025 on ¥1.06 trillion revenue (¥549.7 billion operating pro...
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
Beverages & Food
Diversifies across beverages, food, and pharmaceuticals like fungi producing multiple compounds. Yeast creates alcohol in one division while related p...
Komatsu Ltd.
Industrial Machinery
Manufactures construction equipment that moves earth like termite mounds restructure landscapes. Their excavators and bulldozers extend human capabili...
Kubota Corporation
Industrial Machinery
Manufactures agricultural equipment that extends human farming capabilities like tool use extended early human foraging efficiency. Their tractors, ha...
Mitsubishi Corporation
Diversified Trading & Investment
Mitsubishi Corporation functions as Japan's largest sogo shosha (general trading house) - a trophic intermediary connecting resource extraction to man...
Panasonic Corporation
Electronics & Energy Storage
Panasonic's partnership with Tesla created the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory and 21% global EV battery market share. The Nevada Gigafact...
Rakuten, Inc.
E-commerce & Technology
Rakuten achieved 2.3 trillion yen consolidated revenue in FY2024 (+10.0% year-over-year, 28th consecutive year of growth) while Internet Services, Fin...
Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (Muji)
Retail & Consumer Goods
Ryohin Keikaku operates the Muji brand, known for its minimalist, no-brand quality goods philosophy. The company offers a wide range of products from...
Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Seven & i Holdings operates the 7-Eleven convenience store chain and various retail businesses globally. The company is the world's largest convenienc...
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
Chemicals
Shin-Etsu Chemical occupies oligopolistic niches across two unrelated markets: global #1 in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and silicon wafers. This dual dom...
SoftBank Group Corp.
Technology & Telecommunications
SoftBank is a multinational conglomerate focused on technology investments, telecommunications, and internet services. The company operates the Vision...
Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
Gaming & Entertainment
Square Enix is a premier video game publisher formed from the merger of Square and Enix, creators of the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises. Th...
Toshiba Corporation
Technology & Electronics
Toshiba is a diversified technology company with businesses in infrastructure, energy, electronic devices, and digital solutions. The company has face...
Toyota Motor Corporation
Automotive
Toyota sold 10.8 million vehicles in 2024 (fifth consecutive year as world's largest automaker) despite 3.7% decline from 11.2 million in 2023. The co...