- CEO
- Kosuke Uemura
- Full Time Employees
- 22,819
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Conglomerates
- Address
- 1-1, Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome Tokyo Japan 100-8691
- IPO Date
- Oct 28, 2009
- Business
- Sojitz Corporation, a diversified Japanese trading company headquartered in Tokyo and founded in 2003 through the merger of Nichimen Corporation and Nissho Iwai Corporation, engages in global manufacturing, trading, importing, exporting and investment activities across multiple sectors. The company operates through seven divisions offering automotive wholesale, retail, financing and services; aerospace sales consulting, aircraft leasing, business jets, defense systems; transportation including railcar MRO, leasing and marine vessels; airport and industrial park management; energy solutions encompassing infrastructure PPP, renewable energy, downstream energy and healthcare; metals including coking coal, steel products, mineral resources and recycling; chemicals such as plastic resins via Sojitz Pla-Net and Pla Matels, SBR latex and ABS resins via Nippon A&L, methanol, C5 petroleum resins, rare earths and industrial salts; consumer industry and agriculture covering fertilizers, animal feed, livestock, biomass fuels, building materials, paper and regional revitalization; as well as retail, food distribution, aquaculture, livestock, shopping centers and real estate. Sojitz maintains operations in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Asia and over 80 overseas offices with approximately 26,000 consolidated employees. Recent developments include the May 2025 agreement to acquire majority stake in Nippon A&L Inc. to bolster chemicals and lithium-ion battery materials; the December 2025 partnership with CIMIC Group to purchase 50% of UGL Transport for rail infrastructure expansion in Australia; entry into Hyundai vehicle import and retail in Panama in June 2025; acquisition of an Australian electricity retail business in November 2025; and a July 2025 partnership with Nippon Steel and Champion Iron for the Kami iron ore project.