Top companies in Japan
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Ranked by current headcount across companies headquartered in Japan. Refreshed daily.
- 1NTT DATA, Inc.· Greater Tokyo Area
- 60.4k employees
- Founded 2019
- 2Fujitsu· Japan
- 58.3k employees
- Founded 1935
- 3NTT DATA· Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 47.3k employees
- Founded 1990
- 4Nissan Motor Corporation· Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
- Post-IPO debt
- 47.3k employees
- Founded 1933
- 5Hitachi· Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Post-IPO equity
- 40.5k employees
- Founded 1910
Find engineers and operators at companies in Japan
Japan is one of the densest markets for technology talent in the world. The list above ranks the largest companies headquartered in Japan by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 6,443 matching companies in our index, the depth of engineers, designers, product managers, and founders is broad across stages and industries.
Hiring in Japan usually means hiring out of these companies. The biggest names anchor the talent pool - every senior engineer in Japan likely has at least one of them on their resume - and the fast-growing ones generate the most movement.
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