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[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 7 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

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!)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

The term for it is 'conglomerate'

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 8 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.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 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.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Hitachi is the best example