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[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 7 points 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago

Mitsubishi and it's offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines...

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

wind turbines, too.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

... one of the best fighter planes of World War II...

[-] inari@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours 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.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago

The term for it is 'conglomerate'

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 21 hours 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.

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Hitachi is the best example

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