Launch Special Mitsubishi Corporation: Today and Beyond – Our Businesses, Our History and What Drives Us
What does Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) do? You may not immediately have an answer. But MC’s work is all around us in our everyday lives. Across the globe, MC connects people with people and industries with industries, transcending borders as it continues to take on challenges to help create a better society. Here, we explore MC from a variety of perspectives.
Spotlighting MC’s Businesses
MC’s strength lies in its broad touchpoints across multiple industries on a global scale. Our businesses and products relate to various aspects of society and support people’s everyday lives, while changing in response to changes in the external environment.
Learn more below.
MC’s Business Across Society
Learn about MC’s various businesses and how they intersect with our everyday lives. You may discover some unexpected connections to MC!
MC at a Glance
Get a quick overview of MC, from basic information to snapshots of its operations.
Our Business
Learn about the businesses of MC’s seven Business Groups.
MC’s Global Network
The MC Group operates in a rapidly evolving business environment, both in Japan and around the world, with rising geopolitical risks and an increasingly borderless global society and market.
MC leverages its global network spanning approximately 80 countries and regions to collect and disseminate real-time market intelligence. This is used to identify new growth opportunities, bolster risk management practices, and support the expansion of the MC Group.
MC’s Tradition of Taking on Challenges – Past, Present, and Future
Since its establishment in 1954, MC has continually adapted its business models across various domains in response to changes in the operating environment. Take a look back on how our business models have changed over the years, from the Trading Phase and Trading Evolution Phase through the Business Investment Phase and into today’s Business Management Phase.
Know MC’s History
Learn the history of a company that has consistently taken on challenges and reforms to better society.
MC’s Roots
MC has a long history of rising to the challenge. Here, we highlight the origins of our pioneering spirit through accounts of Mitsubishi founder Yataro Iwasaki and other members of the Iwasaki family, while also taking a look back over history starting from 1954, when today’s MC was first established.
The Power of Words to Change People, Organizations and the World――
Words from MC’s Past Presidents
The power to mobilize people and organizations. The power to change the world. What words have MC’s leaders left to inspire future generations? Please take a look at this video, which was created to reflect on our history and spark discussion of those inspirational messages.
Mitsubishi & Mitsubishi Corporation
The origin of Mitsubishi dates back to 1870 when Yataro Iwasaki of the Tosa Domain (present-day Kochi Prefecture) took over the shipping business of Tsukumo Shokai. Yataro and the following three presidents from the Iwasaki family – his brother Yanosuke, his son Hisaya, and Yanosuke’s son Koyata – expanded the business, laying the foundation of the Mitsubishi companies.
After WWII, Mitsubishi Headquarters was disbanded in 1946 by the order of GHQ. The old Mitsubishi Shoji, which had been spun off from the Trading Department in 1918, was dissolved in 1947. Then in 1954, the new Mitsubishi Shoji – today’s MC – was born through the historic re-merger of more than one hundred different companies.
Origins of Mitsubishi’s Famous Emblem
The name “Mitsubishi” refers to the three-diamond emblem, combining “mitsu,” meaning “three,” and “hishi,” a word used to denote a rhombus or diamond shape. Although its exact origins are unclear, today’s three-diamond mark is said to be based on the design used by Tsukumo Shokai – the forerunner of Mitsubishi. The mark is suggestive of the three-leaf crest of the Yamauchi family, leaders of the Tosa Domain and also of the three stacked rhombuses of the Iwasaki family crest.
