Tourism and Investment in Japan

NGK Insulators Ltd located in Nagoya city, the largest in Chubu religion manufactures products for electric power related business, ceramics products business, electronics business and process technology business with ceramic technology as its core expertise. The company's insulators which are essential for large-capacity transmission and stable supply of power are highly valued worldwide for their technological capabilities and excellent quality. It has developed a sodium-sulfur battery using fine ceramics to enable high-efficiency and large-capacity power storage. Its high technology also brought honeycomb ceramics obtained by firing the ceramics in a grid and are used around the world as devices for purifying automobile exhaust gas. The latest business results have been sluggish. In the fiscal year ended March 2019, net income decreased by about 22% from the previous year to only 35.5 billion yen. Operating income decreased 8% from previous year to 64.7 billion yen...

Denso Corporation is one of the world's leading car parts manufacturers based in Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture. The company used be a Toyota's electrical division. It separated from Toyota and started in 1949 as Nippon Denso. For this reason, Toyota is still the largest shareholder of Denso with a 23.7% stake and has a close relationship. Denso develops auto-related businesses such as electrification of automobiles, autonomous driving of automobiles, and connection of automobile functions to the Internet. In addition, it is working on MaaS, mobility as a services that provides mobility of people and goods by matching vehicles in the real world with network-based services. The company is also well known to car users in Japan for car products such as car navigation system with ECLIPSE brand produced by its subsidiary Denso Ten limited, spark plugs and drive recorders. As for business results in fiscal 2019, its revenue increased by ¥ 254.5 bi...

Toyota Motor achieves record sales of more than 30 trillion yen in 2019 Chubu region where transportation machines production accounts for more than 40% of manufactured goods shipments in the region has been leading Japanese economy. The automobile industry including Toyota Motor is the source of growth in the regional manufacturing industry. Toyota Motor has formed a huge automobile industry cluster centered on itself in the region and based on the power of the network the company has achieved record sales of more than 30 trillion yen in the fiscal year ending March 2019. Strong sales network and high technology development capabilities enable the company with those feat. In particular, four sales channels that consist of Toyota’s sales network have each product group they deal and build their own sales strategy so that they can match cars they sell with customer's needs and lifestyle. For example, Toyota, the oldest Toyota dealer sells Crown brand which is the luxury ...