Major Japanese iron and steel companies 2023, by total assets
the Japanese steel industry: Nippon Steel, JFE, and Kobe Steel. What do they have in common? They are the primary operators of blast furnaces and the major suppliers of crude steel in Japan. The rest of the industry is smaller producers of special steel or furnace engineers.
As of March 2023, Nippon Steel Corporation held total assets worth approximately 9.57 trillion Japanese yen, far more than other publicly listed companies in the Japanese iron and steel sector. Effectively, three companies dominate