10 Facts About Mitsubishi Corporation

Mitsubishi Corporation is Japan's largest trading company and a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu.

Mitsubishi Corporation was the only major zaibatsu to initially refuse this request, at the orders of the president Koyata Iwasaki, who shortly thereafter fell seriously ill.

Mitsubishi Corporation eventually dissolved in 1947, and under restrictive rules imposed by the occupation authorities, the employees of the Mitsubishi Corporation Shoji trading arm rebranded into 100 separate companies.

Current Mitsubishi Corporation was founded by the merger of these three companies to form Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.

Concurrently with its relaunch, Mitsubishi opened fourteen liaison offices outside Japan, as well as a US subsidiary called Mitsubishi International Corporation with offices in New York and San Francisco.

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Mitsubishi Corporation's first large-scale investment outside Japan was a liquefied natural gas project in Brunei, committed to in 1968.

Mitsubishi Corporation was the largest Japanese general trading company from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s; after falling to fifth place in 1986, it embarked on a series of large overseas acquisitions together with other companies in the Mitsubishi Corporation group.

In 2008 Mitsubishi Corporation was crowned In-House of the Year - Trading Company In-House Team of the Year at the 2008 ALB Japan Law Awards.

Mitsubishi Corporation was the subject of a boycott by the Rainforest Action Network for its role in the destruction of rainforests through its forestry activities.

In November, 2019, Mitsubishi Corporation stated that it will buy Eneco, a company that focuses on renewable energy, in a deal valuing the Dutch energy firm at $4.