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What do Nissan’s partnerships with Honda and Mitsubishi Corporation mean for Europe? Not a lot.

Honda and Nissan signing a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on producing key components for electric vehicles and artificial intelligence in automotive software platforms is a further sign that Japanese car manufacturers are drawing their horns in and regrouping to focus …

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It’s not over yet for Honda in the UK

“Don’t be ordinary, Honda” urges a 20 page special feature in Nikkei Business magazine. It points out that Honda occupies a similar space to Sony in Japanese people’s hearts. They both had maverick founders, produced quirky, innovative products for …

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The end of Swindon is also part of the end game for Honda President Hachigo

Shutting down the Swindon UK factory was not the only announcement Honda made in February 2019.  They are ceasing production of Civics in Turkey, merging their motorbike production in Brazil, bringing R&D for motorbikes in-house and also making some …

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“We will stick with the UK as a global supply base, despite Brexit” says Honda President

“Europe is the heart of global car culture” says Takahiro Hachigo, Honda’s President since 2015. Although Honda has less than 1% market share in Europe, it competes with European car brands in its main markets of the USA and China. …

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The puzzle of Japanese foreign direct investment in the UK

Something has been puzzling me for a few years about Japanese foreign investment in the UK. The net investment by Japanese companies in the British “communications” sector since 2016 is US$55bn, over three times more than the next largest net …

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Largest Japan owned companies in the UK – 2024

The largest Japan owned companies in the UK employ around 65,000 people and have grown around 5% on average in terms of employee numbers in the year 2023 to 2024.

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The top three largest companies are the …

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The history of Japanese financial services companies in the UK and EMEA

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Japanese banks first established operations in London in the 19th and early 20th centuries, to support Japan’s overseas trade and gain knowledge of modern financial and commercial practices. Japan was rapidly industrializing after the Meiji Restoration of …

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Reflections on the past forty years of Japanese business in the UK – what’s next? – 7

(continued from part 6)

The Japanese consumer electronics companies which were such prominent sponsors of the 1985 Japanese Miracle conference at Oxford University had all set up manufacturing in the UK in the 1970s. Sony was the first, taking …

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Japanese car companies consolidate into two camps – in the UK too

Recent reports that Mitsubishi Motors is to join the Honda-Nissan alliance show that Japanese car companies are forming two camps – Toyota and Not-Toyota.

According to the Nikkei, Mitsubishi Motors, which is 34% owned by Nissan, will work with …

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Top 30 Japanese companies in EMEA – not much growth in 2023

We have finalised the Top 30 rankings for the largest Japanese employers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (download available below). As before,  the extent to which Japanese companies take the UN Sustainable Development Goals pretty seriously has …

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