- CEO
- Masahiro Okafuji
- Full Time Employees
- 113,733
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Conglomerates
- Address
- 5-1, Kita-Aoyama 2-chome Tokyo Japan 107-8077
- IPO Date
- Feb 22, 2012
- Business
- ITOCHU Corporation, one of Japan's leading sogo shosha general trading and investment companies founded in 1858 and headquartered in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, engages in domestic trading, import-export, overseas trading, and business investments across diverse sectors including textiles, machinery, metals and minerals, energy and chemicals, food, general products and realty, information and communications technology, and financial services; its core products and services encompass fiber and garment materials, apparel, industrial materials, and lifestyle brands in textiles; engineering, procurement, construction for infrastructure, renewable energy, oil and gas projects, aircraft leasing, automobiles, construction machinery, medical devices, and ship chartering in machinery; mining, ore, steel, non-ferrous metals, coal, nuclear fuel, and solar power trading in metals and minerals; crude oil, petroleum products, LPG, LNG, natural gas, hydrogen, chemicals such as methanol, PTA, and fertilizers in energy and chemicals; food production, processing, distribution, retail including FamilyMart convenience stores and Dole fresh produce in food; paper, pulp, natural rubber, tires, wood products, real estate development for housing and logistics facilities, and logistics services in general products and realty; IT solutions, BPO, broadcasting, entertainment, healthcare outsourcing, and financial insurance brokerage in ICT and financial business; with operations spanning approximately 100 bases in 62 countries worldwide targeting manufacturers, retailers, consumers, and governments. In recent developments, ITOCHU acquires a 19.5% stake in Wood Partners for a capital and business alliance in U.S. housing in November 2025; announces participation of five new shareholders including OMRON Social Solutions, Kyushu Electric Power, and Lunar Energy in its subsidiary Gridshare Japan for distributed energy platform expansion in December 2025; forms a financial and business partnership with MOTER Technologies for insurance software in September 2025; secures strategic equity investments in Neo Insurance Solutions for digital insurance infrastructure in June 2025 and Maypro Group for health products with a 25% stake in October 2024; completes acquisitions of Descente sportswear and another target totaling JPY220 billion in August 2024; and pursues clean-tech businesses, strategic alliances with CITIC Limited and Charoen Pokphand Group for Asian growth.