Top 34 largest Japanese Utilities Companies 2024 (2024)

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook [Meta], Apple, Tesla, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce are among the top companies hiring for tech roles in 2024.

The Fortune 100 is a list of the top 100 companies in the United States within the Fortune 500, a list of the 500 largest U.S. public and privately held companies published by Fortune magazine.

Utility suppliers in Japan

Japan has 10 regional electricity suppliers, all belonging to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) (電気事業連合会, Denki Jigyo Rengo-kai). These are as follows: Chubu Electric Power (中部電力, Chubu Denryoku)

ENEOS Corporation is a fully-integrated oil company, number 1 in Japan.

Toyota Motor Corporation was the leading domestic company in Japan based on market capitalization, which amounted to around 46.6 trillion Japanese yen in July 2024. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ranked second with a market capitalization of 21.6 trillion yen.

A keiretsu is an interdependent group of companies, each with its own banking partner, manufacturers, distributors, and supply chain partners. Before the keiretsu system, commerce in Japan was dominated by zaibatsus, family-owned businesses that evolved into monopolies.

Industry and Trade

The major service industries in the country include banking, real estate, retailing, insurance, telecoms, and transportation. Several Japanese service firms are among the largest companies in the world, such as Softbank, Nomura, Mitsubishi Estate, ÆON, and Japan Airlines.

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Apple (AAPL)

Apple alone is sitting on $162.3 billion in cash and investments. That's 6.5% of the total wealth held by the nonfinancial companies in the S&P 500. That's 14% higher than the $142.1 billion in cash possessed by Alphabet, which is No. 2 on the list and just started a dividend.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, KDDI Corporation, SoftBank Group Corp., Rakuten Mobile, Inc and Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. are the major companies operating in the Japan Telecom Market.

NextEra Energy was the leading electric utility in the U.S. as of June 2023, based on market value, at almost 153 billion U.S. dollars. Georgia-based electric utility Southern Company ranked second at that time, with a market value of roughly almost 82 billion dollars.