The Mitsui Group of Japan (Japanese: Mitsui Honsha; Japanese kana: Mitsumi Honsha) is one of Japan's four monopoly zaibatsu, which grew out of the zaibatsu ruled by the Mitsui family. Its core companies include Sakura Bank, Mitsui & Co, Shin-Oji Paper, Toshiba, Toyota Motor, Mitsukoshi, Toray, and Mitsui Fudosan. The consortium has strengths in industries such as chemicals, heavy machinery, general motors, automobile manufacturing, real estate, nuclear power generation, semiconductors, and medical and office electronic equipment.
The details are as follows:
(1) The Mitsui Group and the Mitsubishi Group were the first three major consortia in Japan, along with the Sumitomo Group.
(2) The Mitsui Group is not a single enterprise, but consists of a large number of enterprises under the umbrella of the Mitsui Group. "The Mitsui Group consists of about 90 companies in a wide range of industries, including virtually all of Japan's industrial sectors.
(3) The three largest companies in the Mitsui Group are: Mitsui Banking Corporation (MBC), Mitsui & Co. Mitsui & Co. The former Mitsui Minaret.
(4) The representative companies of the Mitsui Group in Japan are as follows, from which it is easy to see the huge scale of the Mitsui Group and the wide range of industries involved:
Oji Paper;
Sankei Co. Industry;
JA Mitsui Leasing;
Merchant Marine Mitsui;
Showa Flying Machine Industry;
New Nippon Air Conditioning;
Dai-en Yun;
Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation (TBC);
TBS Television Corporation (TBS);
Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba);
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyota),
West Nippon Wire & Cable;
Toyota Motor Corporation;
Nippon Paper Pallet Corporation;
Nippon Steel Corporation; ?
Nippon Paper;
Nippon Powder;
Fujifilm;
Mitsui Marine Development;
Mitsui Chemical;
Mitsui **** with Construction;
Mitsui Mineralogical Products;
Mitsui Intelligence;
Mitsui Sumitomo Roads;
Mitsui Sumitomo Marine Fire Insurance;
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction;
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation;
SMBC Nikko Securities;
Nippon Soga Research Institute;
Mitsui Seiki Kogyo;
Mitsui Sugar;
Mitsui Life Insurance;
Mitsui Petroleum Development; ?
Mitsui Warehouse; ?
Mitsui Shipbuilding;
Mitsui Agriculture and Forestry;
Mitsui Products;
Mitsui Food;
Mitsui Real Estate;
Mitsukoshi Isetan (retail department stores).