Among the world's top 500 companies in 2006, 68 companies from Japan were selected, namely:
Ranking company Chinese name Company nationality Business scope Sales revenue (hundreds) million, US dollars)
8 Toyota Motor Japan Motor 185,805.0
24 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Nippon Telecom 94,869.3
31 Honda Motor Japan Motor 87,510.7
38 Hitachi Japan Electronics, electrical equipment 83,596.3
41 Nissan Motor Japan Motors 83,273.8
47 Panasonic Japan Electronics, electrical equipment 78,557.7
65 Sony Japan Electronics, electrical equipment 66,025.6
69 Nippon Life Nippon Insurance Company 61,158.3
87 Toshiba Japan Electronics, electrical equipment 56,028.0
113 Tokyo Electric Power Japan Gas & Electric Power 46,418.3
118 Nippon Oil Nippon Refining 45,071.2
119 Dai-ichi Life Nippon Insurance 44,597.8
p>127 Mitsubishi Corporation Japan Trading 42,633.2
128 Nippon Electric Corporation Japan Electronics, Electrical Equipment 42,615.4
133 Fujitsu Japan Computer Office Equipment 42,319.4
p>142 Aeon Japan Food and Drug Store 39,480.6
155 Mitsui & Co. Japan Trading 36,349.3
164 Sevenamp; I Japan Retail 34,717.3
166 Sumitomo Life Japan Insurance 34,625.7
168 Nippon Steel Japan Metal 34,501.8
170 Canon Japan Imaging Equipment, Office Equipment 34,091.6
171 Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Japan 33,632.4
174 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Bank of Japan 32,725.0
181 Mitsubishi Electric Japan Electronics, Electrical Equipment 31,833.4
p>184 Mizuho Financial Group Bank of Japan 31,421.5
194 Millennium Holdings Nippon Insurance 30,029.8
207 Denso Japan Auto Parts 28,160.4
215 Marubeni Japan Trading 27,732.2
218 JFE Holdings Nippon Metal 27,365.9
221 KDDI Nippon Telecom 27,034.1
235 Mazda Motors Japanese automobiles 25,788.9
237 Idemitsu Kosan Nippon Oil Refining 25,370.0
242 Sharp Japan Electronics and Electrical Equipment 24,705.0
243 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Japan Agricultural equipment 24,660.8
245 Bridgestone Japan Tire & Rubber 24,440.2
249 Suzuki Motor Japan Automobile 24,257.6
257 Shinichi Mining Japan Oil refining 23,615.3
258 Fujifilm Japan Science and Photography Equipment 23,560.2
270 JR East
Japan Railway Transport 22,896.9
274 Sumitomo Corporation Japan Trading 22,799.9
276 Kansai Electric Power Japan Gas and Electricity 22,779.1
295 Tamp; D Holdings Nippon Insurance 21,588.8
299 Mitsubishi Chemical Nippon Chemical Industry 21,276.6
300 Sanyo Electric Japan Electronics and Electrical Equipment 21,171.3
328 Itochu Japan Trading 19,592.1
333 Japan Airlines Japan Airlines 19,425.7
337 Cosmo Oil Japan Refining 19,100.0
338 Chubu Electric Power Japan Gas & Electric 18, 994.0
344 Aisin Seiki Japan Auto Parts 18,729.7
345 Mitsubishi Motors Japan Automobile 18,725.1
348 Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Japan Insurance 18,608.6
365 Japan Tobacco Japan Tobacco 17,742.2
366 Sumitomo Electric Japan Electronics and Electrical Equipment 17,727.7
382 Japan Property Insurance Company Japan Property and Casualty Insurance 17 , 059.4
384 Nippon Yusen Japan Shipping 17,040.2
385 Japan Post Japan Post 17,000.5
391 Ricoh Japan Office Equipment 16,914.7
426 Nippon Express Japan Post 15,844.5
427 Nomura Holdings Japan Securities Brokerage 15,835.0
432 Kashima Nippon Engineering and Construction 15,679.8
438 Taisei Construction Japan Engineering and Construction 15, 403.5
449 Komatsu Japan Industrial and Agricultural Equipment 15, 032.4
452 Daiei Japan General Merchandise Retail 14, 927.9
461 Kobe Steel Nippon Metal 14,726.3
462 Tohoku Electric Power Japan Gas & Electric 14,662.1
491 Isuzu Motors Nippon Auto 13,971.5
497 Asahi Glass Nippon Chemical 13,863.5
499 Sumitomo Chemical Nippon Chemical 13,748.5
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