Mitsubishi and it’s offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines…
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farmgineer@nord.pub 1 week ago
A lot of companies in Japan have a heavy industries branch or similar. Yamaha has all kinds of verticals as they’re happy to sell you a piano or a motorcycle (or both!)
aeiou@piefed.social 1 week ago
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
… one of the best fighter planes of World War II…
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 week ago
The term for it is ‘conglomerate’
0ops@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They’ve since been renamed to simply “Subaru Corporation”, apparently.
kugel7c@feddit.org 1 week ago
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Hitachi is the best example
inari@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.