List of Japanese Enterprises Doing Business with
African Continent and Countries（English Ver.)

January 2016
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK External Representation Office for Asia
Africa Business Partners

Definition of term：
Industry classification
Type of operation(1-11: Manufacture of)
A Locally-incorporated companies, representative offices, branch offices(Regardless of capital contribution ratio or whether there are Japanese representatives.
1 Electrical, electronic and information processing
Include also the local businesses started by Japanese entrepreneurs.)
equipment and related products
2 Transportation equipment, motor vehicles and related products B Trading relationship only
(Continuous import and export, trade with local distribution outlet, consignment production, etc.)
3 Precision instruments and medical machinery
4 General machineries
C Other(Project participation, acquiring interests, consultation, survey, ODA projects, CSR, etc.)
5 Heavy machineries
6 Ferrous, non-ferrous metal and products
Order of companies' and countries' name
7 Chemical products
Japanese alphabetical order
8 Drugs and medicines
Erea classification basis
9 Glass, cement and ceramic products
Following AU (African Union) practice
10 Textile, clothes, and leather
Note：・The information in this list was extracted from public information / information
11 Other miscellaneous products
which was voluntarily provided by company / already known facts but not from
12 Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
any restricted information source.
13 Foods and beverages
・The information in this list is correct as of November 2015.
14 Pulp and paper・As for certain industries that hold a large number of companies, only some of them
15 Retail business
which show continuity in operation, or office presence as business representation
16 Restaurants and food service
are listed.
17 Education service
18 Information and communication service, software, and contents ・The copyright of this list is held by the Africa Business Partners. The list isavailable at the website of Africa Business Partners and the website of AfDB,
19 Natural resource development and refinery, Energy
Japanese website (http://www.afdb-org.jp/).
20 Construction engineering and plants
・Please feel free to cite the information in this list. However, please indicate
21 General trading firm (Sogo Shosha)
the source (“List of Japanese Enterprises Doing Business with African Countries,
22 Specialized middle-sized trading firmby African Development Bank External Representation Office for Asia and
23 Distributer of used cars
Africa Business Partners”).
24 Distributer of specific products
・Profile of the companies included in the list or further detailed information are
25 Marine and air transportation
available separately for a fee. Please contact below.
26 Land transportation and logistics
・Should you have any information that needs to be amended, corrected, updated,
27 Financial service
added, or have any information regarding companies that wish to be newly included
28 Business consulting
in this list, please contact below.
29 Consulting service focusing on international development
30 Travel agency and hotels
Contact:
31 Media and advertising business
Yukari UMEMOTO (Ms.), Africa Business Partners
32 Other miscellaneous servcies+81-80-5078-6411, +81-3-5382-4319
33 Local businesses started by Japanese entrepreneurs
yukari.umemoto@abp.co.jp

Coverage of Business Base of Japanese companies in Africa
The number of Japanese companies' business bases in Africa is counted as 440 in total by the research as of November 2015.
* The number of companies of type A (locally-incorporated companies, representative offices, branch offices) in each countries is counted.
* In case that a company has plural bases in a country, it is counted as one base. In case that a company has a base over plural countries, it is counted
the number of countries.
* A registered company which does not have any business activity is not counted. A company which has a base temporary in purpose of doing ODA project
is not counted.

No.

Country

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27

South Africa
Kenya
Egypt
Nigeria
MoroccoTanzania
Ghana
UgandaAlgeria
Tunisia
MozambiqueZambiaAngoraEthiopia
RwandaCote d'Ivoire
Namibia
SenegalZimbabwe
Mauritius
Gabon
Libya
Botswana
Madagascar
Liberia
MalawiSouth Sudan

Number ofbusiness bases

136
40
39
28
28
26
13
11
11
11
10
9
8
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
2

No.

Country

28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54

Equatorial Guinea
Swaziland
Sudan
Benin
Burkina Faso
GuineaMali
Togo
BurundiCameroon
DRC
Cabo VerdeCentral Africa
Chad
ComorosCongo
Djibouti
EritreaGambiaGuinea-Bissau
Lesotho
Mauritania
Niger
Sao Tome
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
TOTAL

Number of Business Bases in Each Area

Number ofbusiness bases

2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
440

9
(2%)

60
(14%)
93
(21%)
100
(23%)

TOTAL: 440

178
(40%)

Southern
Eastern
Northern
Western
CentralNo.

1Industry

Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

1

OMRON

Ghana,
Gambia,Uganda,Guinea,South
Ethiopia, Sierra
Africa,Burundi,Kenya,
Leone,
Angola,CentralDjibouti,
Togo,
Zambia,AfricanSudan,
Nigeria,
Zimbabwe,
Republic,GSomalia, Niger,
Namibia,abon,
Tanzania, Burkina
Botswana,
Chad,Madagasc Faso,
Mozambiq
DRC
ar,
Benin,
ue
RwandaMali,
Mauritania,
Liberia

2

CASIO

South
Africa3

CANON

Angola,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
11
Swaziland,countries
Namibia,
exceptMalawi,
Sudan,
Botswana,
Djibouti,
South
South
Africa,Sudan
Mozambique,Lesotho15
countries
exceptSierraLeone

7 countries Algeria,
exceptEgypt,
DRC,
Tunisia,
Equatorial Morocco,
GuineaLibya

A・Sale of office equipment and audio-visual devices, such as digital cameras andvideo equipment via local sales agents in 48 African countries
・Supervising business from locally incorporated companies in South Africa and theUAE
・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in 2013

4

Kyocera Mita South
AfricaSouth
Africa,Kenya
Mozambiq
ue

Ghana

DRC

B

・Sale of iBurst, a wireless broadband technology co-developed with Array Comm(US).
・Supplied solar electric system via Official Development Assistance

http://www.kyocera.co.jp/index.html
http://www.iburstafrica.com/?c=mz&lan
g=English&content=ourcompany

5

GS Yuasa

B・Sale of car batteries, bike batteries, and solar generation kits via local sales
agents in various African countries

http://www.gs-yuasa.com/jp/index.asp

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Sale of control devices
・The company has a business base in South Africa, and sells products in 33
African countries.

http://www.omron.com/
http://www.ia.omron.com/global_networ
k/africa/south_africa.html

AB

・Sale of clocks, watches, calculators and musical instruments in 29 African countries
http://world.casio.com/
including South Africa

http://www.canon.com/index.html
http://www.canon.co.uk/Contact_Us/ca
non_europe_middle_east_and_africa_
offices/1

No.

IndustrySouthern

61Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company name7

Sysmex

Sharp

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthernSouth
AfricaSouth
AfricaOperation typeA

Egypt,
MoroccoA

Business details

Reference・Sale of specimen test equipment and reagents
・Established an African Service Center in 2001
・Opened a representative office in South Africa in 2006 to support sales agents insouth eastern Africa

http://www.sysmex.co.jp/en/index.html

・Sale of audio-visual devices, such as digital cameras, and office equipment
・The company has representative offices in South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco.
http://www.sharp-world.com/
・In Egypt, the company has been in a partnership with El Araby for the manufacture http://www.sharp.co.jp/100th/chronologi
and sale of air conditioners since 2002. The partnership was expanded to cover the cal/2000.html
manufacture and sale of refrigerators in 2012, and commenced production in 2014. http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/g_topi
・The company has a network of sales agents in almost all African countries.
x/el_araby/index.html

8

SONY

South
AfricaA

・Held public viewing events in Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, etc. as CSR activities
・Announced in 2013 the establishment of local centers and 67 authorized service
centers in Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria and Angola
・Sale of home electronics and audio devices in South Africa via exclusive dealersetc. Sale of audio devices in Nigeria.

9Tokyo Eletron

South
AfricaA・Implementing recycling service of ruthenium (a precious metal) together with
Tanaka Holdings in South Africa

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.sony.net/

http://www.tel.com/

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No.

1

Industry

Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company nameSouthern

1011

Eastern

TOSHIBASouth
AfricaNICON

Zimbabwe,
South
Kenya
AfricaKenya

Western

Niger

CentralNorthern

Egypt

Egypt,
MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeA

B

Business details

Reference・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa and an incorporated
joint venture in Egypt
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/inde
・Has contracted a sales agent agreement with the Egyptian company, El Araby,
x.htmlsince 1970s and sells home electrical appliances. The company further promoted the http://www.jetro.go.jp/jfile/report/07000
licensing of technology and commenced the manufacture of Toshiba brand products. 206/egypt20100331.pdf
In 2003, Toshiba Home Appliances established a company to sell home electrical
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
appliances jointly with El Araby, and in 2011, Toshiba established a joint venture
10_12/pr_j1601.htm
company to manufacture liquid crystal televisions with El Araby and made capital
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
contribution to the aforementioned joint sales company.
11_01/pr_j1401.htm
・In Egypt in 2010, Toshiba, together with Mitsubishi Corporation and Kinki Sharyo, http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/pr/
received an order for train cars for a subway system in Cairo (manufacture ofarchive/2010/html/0000010920.html
electrical components for train cars).
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
・In South Africa in 2006 and 2011, Toshiba, together with Mitsui & Co., received an 11_03/pr_j0203.htm
order for electric locomotives to transport iron ore from the government-managed
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
general transit authority, TRANSNET, and manufactured them.
07_07/pr_j2301.htm
・In 2007, Westinghouse Electric Company purchased the nuclear department of
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
the South African Company, IST.
11_11/pr_j0701.htm
・In Kenya in 2012, Toshiba received an order for turbines and generators for a
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/20
geothermal power generation project jointly undertaken by Toyota Tsusho and
12_04/pr_j2002.htm
Hyundai Engineering.
・In 2012, Toshiba acquired an interest in uranium exploration in Niger.

・Sale of cameras and audio-visual devices
・The company has sales agents in South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, andZimbabwe.
・In 2015, the company opened a showroom in Kenya.

http://www.nikon.com/
http://www.nikon.com/network/africa.ht
m

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No.

1

Industry

Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company nameSouthern

12

NEC

South
Africa13

PIONEERCORPORATION

South
Africa,Angola14

15

Panasonic

Hitachi Kokusai
ElectricSouth
AfricaEastern

Kenya

Kenya

Tanzania

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeNigeria

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoA

Ghana,
Senegal,NigeriaEgypt,
Libya

B

Nigeria

Egypt

Botswana

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

B

Business details
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2011 and in Nigeria
in 2012
・Sale of information and communications products, microwave communication
systems and other mobile phone base station facilities, laying of submarine cables,sale of broadcast equipment, etc.
・Sold and delivered microwave communication systems in over 40 countries inAfrica・The company received order for two projects laying submarine cable between
Asia, Africa and Europe, and between Angora and Brazil, in 2014.
・The company received an order for a national fingerprint authentication ID systemcovering about 7,000 people in South Africa.
・The company has representative offices in Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria,
and has a branch office in Tunisia.
・NEC Telecommunication and Information Technology, Ltd., a Turkish corporation,
has a branch office in Egypt.
・The company conducted a demonstration study of electronic money inMozambique.
・In 2015, the company formed a capital alliance with XON, a South Africancompany.

Reference

http://www.nec.com/
http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/1112/010
2.htmlhttp://ab-network.jp/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/1bab7ee0d77
400eaa896ef86d5291609.pdf
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLZO89511590Q5A720C1TJC000/
http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/ja/report2008/c
ontribution/con01_3.html

・Export of car audio devices

http://pioneer.jp/en/?ref=footer

・Established a battery manufacturing company in Tanzania in 1966, which
manufactures batteries and flashlights
・The company has a representative office in Nigeria.
・The company has a branch office in South Africa, exports electrical facilities
equipment from Dubai

http://www.panasonic.com/global/home.html
http://news.panasonic.com/jp/topics/20
14/38654.html
http://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001
716.000003442.html

・Conducts empirical experiments on terrestrial digital TV broadcasting inMozambique・The company's Brazilian subsidiary received a package order for digital terrestrial
television broadcasting transmitters from Botswana TV, a state-run broadcastingstationhttp://www.hitachikokusai.co.jp/global/index.html
http://www.hitachikokusai.co.jp/news/news141030.html
http://www.hitachikokusai.co.jp/news/news130301_01.ht
ml

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No.

IndustrySouthern

16

17

1

Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company name

18

19

20

HitachiSouth
AfricaFANUC

Zimbabwe,
Swaziland,South
Africa,Botswana,
Lesotho

FUJITSU

FUJIFILM

Mitsui High-tec

All 10countries

South
AfricaEastern

Kenya

Western

CentralNigeria

Northern

Egypt

Operation typeAA

11countries
exceptComoros,
Sudan,South
Sudan

All 16
countries

All 9
countries

All 5
countries

MoroccoMoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

B

A

B

Business details
・Businesses involved in the manufacture and sale of power generating facilities
were integrated as Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
・In 2007, Hitachi received an order for boiler facilities for a coal fired power plantfrom Escom (a South African power company).
・In 2002 and 2005, Hitachi, together with Sumitomo Corporation, received an orderfor steam turbine power generation equipment in Egypt.
・In 2011, Hitachi Data Systems (a US subsidiary company) purchased Shoden
Data Systems (a South African IT equipment sales and service company), obtaining
business bases in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria.
・Sale of medical equipment in Egypt

Reference

http://www.hitachi.com/
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/mo
nth/2008/03/0303a.html
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/mo
nth/2005/09/0920a.html
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/mo
nth/2011/10/1005b.html

・Locally incorporated company in South Africa
http://www.fanuc.co.jp/eindex.htm
・Sale of CNC units for machine tools and industrial robots in South Africa, Lesotho,
http://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/service/index.
Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Botswana
htm

・Sale and service business activities for information and communications products,
such as servers, ICT platforms, and IT solutions
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/
・Covers 52 African countries (except Comoros, South Sudan, and Sudan) via local
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/worldwide/sales agentsafrica/・The company has a service center in South Africa.

・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2012 and sells
digital cameras, printing paper, and other imaging products, as well as medical
products including digital X-ray apparatus
・Established a representative office in Morocco in 2012 and supports local sales
agents that sell imaging products, medical products, and graphic products
・The company has sales agents in various African countries.
・In 2014, Avigan, an anti-influenza virus drug made by Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd,a subsidiary company, was administered to the patients of Ebola virus disease. The
medicine is currently under clinical investigation in Guinea.

・Established a representative office in Morocco to support sales agents

http://www.fujifilm.com/
http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corporate/news/
articleffnr_0642.html
http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corporate/news/
articleffnr_0928.html
http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corporate/news/
articleffnr_0959.html

http://www.mitsui-hightec.com/en/index.php
http://www.mitsui-hightec.com/en/corporate/location/europe.p
hp

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No.

IndustrySouthern

211Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Area

Company name

Mitsubishi Electric

South
Africa22

Mitsubishi Hitachi
Power Systems

South
Africa23

YASUKAWASouth
Africa24

25

YOKOGAWA

FUJI Electric

Angola,South
AfricaEastern

Western

Kenya

CentralNorthern

Egypt

MoroccoOperation typeA

A

A

NigeriaSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

C

Business details

Reference

http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/world
wide/index.html
・Established a locally incorporated company for elevators in South Africa and Egypt
http://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/ir/cor
・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2015
p_profile/pdf/2012/p18-19.pdf
・Supplied a generator for a geothermal project in Kenya
http://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/news/2015/0525-b.html
・Established as an integrated company in the thermal power generation businessby Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Hitachi, Ltd.
・Production and sale of thermal power generation facilities
・Locally incorporated company in South Africa
https://www.mhps.com/en/index.html
・In 2007, the company was engaged in the establishment of boiler facilities for coal- http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/pdf/130
fired power generation plant for Escom, an electric power company in South Africa
611.pdf
for which Hitachi, Ltd. received the order.
https://www.mhps.com/news/20141002.
・In 2015, the company received an order for turbines and generators for an ultra
html
super critical coal-fired power generation plant constructed in Safi, Morocco by Mitsui& Co.
・Sale and service business activities for inverters, servo controllers, and robots
・Purchased Robotic System, a South African motor and generator manufacturer,
and reorganized it as a locally incorporated company

http://www.yaskawa-global.com/
http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/ir/ir_document/businessreport/96/96_report.pdf

・Sale and service business activities, etc. for plant control systems, controllers andmeasuring equipment, etc.
http://www.yokogawa.com/index.htm
・The company has locally incorporated companies in South Africa, Nigeria, andhttp://www.yokogawa.com/ioc/wAngola.
locations/area-africa-en.htm
・Received an order for a control system for coal transportation and treatment
http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/cp/press/20
facilities from Eskom (a South African government-managed power company) in
11/pr-press-2011-0630-ja.htm
2011
http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/cp/press/20
・Received an order for a control system for floating oil production, storage, and08/pr-press-2008-0825-ja.htm
shipment facilities in Angola from BP (a British company) in 2008
http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/pr/Corporat
・In 2003, Yokogawa Electric Korea received an order for an instrumentation system e/News/2003/pr-press-2003-1007for a petroleum station in Nigeria from Hyundai Heavy Industries.
ja.htm・Infrastructure-related business activities in relation to power supply, railroad
services, etc. (manufacture, sale, and service business activities for related
equipment) and sale of plant control systems
・Sold and delivered transformer units to Eskom (a South African governmentmanaged power company)
・In 2009, Fuji Voith Hydro, which engages in hydroelectric projects, received anorder for large generator motors for a pumped storage power plant in South Africa.

http://www.fujielectric.com/
http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/about/company/pdf/Corporate_Profile_J_201210.p
df

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No.

1

Industry
Electrical,electronic andinformation
proces
sing
equip
ment
and
relatedproducts

Southern

26

TOA

27

AIDA ENGINEERING

28

ANEST IWATA

2

CentralNorthern

30

CATALER

31

KINKI SHARYO

A

A

Kenya

Nigeria

Egypt

Egypt

South
AfricaOperation typeA

South
AfricaSouth
AfricaSUZUKI MOTOR

Western

MoroccoSouth
Africa32

EasternSouth
AfricaISUZU Motors

29
Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Area

Company name

Nigeria

EgyptNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

Business details

・Established a locally incorporated sales company in South Africa in 2009
・Sale of acoustic equipment for business use in southern Africa

・Manufacture and sale of press machines and automatic processing lines forautomobiles
・Established a sales company in Morocco

・Established a sales company for coating equipment for automobiles in South
Africa・Started export to Egypt in 1956
・Established a joint venture company with General Motors Company of the U.S. toassemble and sell commercial trucks and buses in South Africa and Egypt.
・The company has the production base of GM in Kenya.
・The company receives major order in Algeria and Cote d'Ivoire.
・Acquired two local companies in South Africa in 2015
・Announced the start of assembly and production of trucks in Nigeria in 2015

Reference
http://www.toa.co.jp/
http://www.toa.co.jp/news/2009/090731.htm
http://www.classicacoustics.co.za/

http://www.aida.co.jp/en/index.html
http://www.aida.co.jp/en/company/world.html

http://www.anest-iwata.co.jp/english/

http://www.isuzu.co.jp/world/index.html
http://www.isuzu.co.jp/investor/fact/overseas_6.html
http://www.africasociety.or.jp/magazine_pdf/2011_04.pdf
http://www.nikkan.co.jp/news/nkx04201
50504beal.html

http://www.cataler.co.jp/en/
http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/company/his
tory/75years/text/leaping_forward_as_a_global_corporation/chapter4/section5/i
tem2_d.html

A・In 2001, the company established a locally incorporated joint venture in South
Africa with Toyota.
・Manufacture and sale of catalytic converters for automobiles

C・In 2007 and 2010, the company, together with Mitsubishi Corporation and Toshiba, http://www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/ja/news/ne
received an order for train cars for a subway system in Cairo, Egypt.
ws100819.htm

A・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 1989 and commenced the
manufacture of small commercial vehicles in 1993.
・In South Africa, the company established a locally incorporated company for fourwheel vehicles in 2008, in addition to a sales company for motorbikes and outboard
engines. The company was integrated in 2014.
・The company has a production base in Nigeria.

http://www.globalsuzuki.com/
http://www.globalsuzuki.com/corporate/
productionbase/overseas/europe_africa.htmlhttp://www.suzuki.co.jp/release/d/2007/
0213/index.html

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No.

IndustrySouthern

33

34

2

Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Area

Company name

SUBARU

Western

CentralNorthernSouth
AfricaSouth
Africa36

TAKATASouth
Africa37

Terra Motors

South
Africa

38

DENSO

South
Africa39

TOYOTA GOSEI

SouthAfricaOperation typeB

SUMITOMO RUBBER SouthINDUSTRIES
AfricaSUMITOMO Wiring
Systems

35

EasternA

Egypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoMoroccoMoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

Business details

・Sale of automobiles via Subaru sales subsidiaries owned by Toyota Tsusho

Reference
http://www.subaru-global.com/
http://www.elogit.com/loginews/20101004x11.php

・In 2013, purchased Apollo Tyres South Africa (Indian capital company in South
Africa), obtaining the sale and production rights for Dunlop brand products in 30
African countries and the sale rights and tyre production plant Apollo had in South
Africa.
・Sale of Dunlop brand products in various African countries

http://www.srigroup.co.jp/english/index.
html
http://www.srigroup.co.jp/newsrelease/2
013/sri/2013_062.html
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASD
Z0903D_Z01C14A0TJ1000/

・Manufacture and sale of wire harnesses for automobiles
・Manufacturing and sale carried out in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt, and sale inSouth Africa
・Hires 18,000 employees in three plant the company has in Morocco

http://www.sws.co.jp/en/index.html
http://www.sws.co.jp/en/corporation/offi
ce_europe.html
http://www.sei.co.jp/csr/feature/2015/in
dex.html

A・Manufacture and sale of airbags, seat belts, and steering wheels
・The company has locally incorporated companies in Morocco and South Africa.

http://www.takata.com/en/
http://www.takata.com/en/about/history.
html
http://www.takata.com/en/about/locatio
ns.html

B・Exports motorized three-wheelers to South Africa

http://www.terra-motors.com/

A・Manufacture and sale of automotive air conditioners
・Purchased Smiths Manufacturing (a local South African company) in 2005
・Established a locally incorporated company in Morocco in 2010

http://www.globaldenso.com/en/
http://www.denso.co.jp/ja/investors/ann
ual_report/2012/doc/2012_annual_repo
rt.pdfhttp://www.smiths.co.za/
http://www.denso.co.jp/ja/news/newsrel
eases/2010/100323-01.html

A・Manufacture and sale of airbags

http://www.toyoda-gosei.com/

8

No.

2

Industry

Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Area

Company nameSouthern

40

TOYOTA Motor

South
Africa41

TOYOTA BOUSHOKU

South
Africa42

43

NISSAN MotorUD Trucks Corporation

South
AfricaEastern

Western

Kenya

CentralNorthern

Egypt

Operation typeAA

Kenya,
Mauritius

Nigeria

Algeria,Egypt,
MoroccoSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

A

Business details

Reference・Manufacture, sale, and export of completed cars and auto parts
・Commenced the export to Africa by exporting the Crown model to Ethiopia in 1957
・Commenced the assembly of automobiles in South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt in
1962, 1977, and 2012, respectively
http://www.toyota-global.com/
・The company has a locally incorporated company engaged in manufacturing and http://www.toyotasales in South Africa. Products are manufactured through consignment production in global.com/company/history_of_toyota/
Kenya and Egypt.
75years/
・The company has Toyota Kenya and Toyota Motor Engineering Egypt, capitalized http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/company/abby Toyota Tsusho, Toyota Ghana capitalized by Marubeni, and Toyota Nigeria
out_toyota/gaikyo/pdf2013/databook_jp
capitalized by Sumitomo.
_2013.pdf
・The number of distribution agents in Africa is 44. The company has sales networks
in 53 African countries, selling about 250,000 vehicles.

・Manufacture of car seats, door trim, etc. in South Africa

・Manufacture, sale and export of automobiles
・The company has locally incorporated production and sales companies in South
Africa and Egypt.
・The company also has production bases in Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, and Egypt,
and sales bases in Algeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, and Morocco.
・Commenced consignment production to Stallion Group in Nigeria in 2014
・Commenced the sale of Nissan Leaf, the first electric vehicle in South Africa in2013

http://www.toyotaboshoku.com/global/index.html

http://www.nissanglobal.com/EN/index.html
http://www.nissanglobal.com/EN/COMPANY/PROFILE/E
N_ESTABLISHMENT/AFRICA/
http://www.nissanglobal.com/JP/NEWS/2013/_STORY/1
31009-01-j.html
http://www.nissanglobal.com/JP/NEWS/2013/_STORY/1
30903-02-j.html

http://www.udtrucks.com/en-int/home
http://www.udtrucks.com/ja-jp/aboutus/udt/overseas
・Manufacture and sale of trucks and buses in South Africa
http://www.udtrucks.com/ja-jp/about・South Africa is the largest overseas market for the company.
us/udt/distributer
・The company started marketing a large-sized truck in South Africa in 2015.
http://www.udtrucks.com/ja-jp/news・The number of distribution agents in Africa is 13. The company has sales network
and-media/pressin 48 bases.
releases/japan/2015/20150416southern-africa-quester-launch
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASD
Z13IHV_V10C15A3TJC000/

9

No.

2

Industry

Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference44

NGK INSULATORSSouth
AfricaA・Manufacture of catalytic converters to purify automobile emissions

http://www.ngk.co.jp/english/index.html
http://www.ngk.co.jp/english/about/grou
p/europe.html
http://www.ngk.co.jp/news/2001/0131.h
tml

45

NSK

South
AfricaA・Sale of bearings and precision machinery products in South Africa

http://www.nsk.com/
http://www.nsk.com/company/globalnet
work.html

46

HINO Motors

47

FUJIKURA

48

BRIDGESTONE

South
AfricaKenya

A

MoroccoSouth
AfricaNigeria,
Liberia

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

AA

・Production of trucks in South Africa
・The company has a locally incorporated subsidiary company of Toyota in South
Africa.
・Commissioned assembly and sale of trucks in Kenya
・The company has sales bases in 8 countries centered on Toyota sales agents・Manufacture and export of wire harnesses for automobiles

・Manufacture and sale of automobile tires in South Africa
・The company’s subsidiary, Firestone Natural Rubber Company, produces natural
rubber and latex, which are raw materials for tires, in Liberia
・The company has sales bases in Nigeria and other African countries.

http://www.hino-global.com/
http://www.hino.co.za/
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/articl
e/hino-sa-moves-to-new-plant-in-r54minvestment-appoints-new-vp-2014-0423
http://www.hino.co.jp/news_release/203.html

http://www.fujikura.co.jp/eng/
http://www.fujikura.co.jp/fnews/1199021_4018.html

http://www.bridgestone.com/
http://www.bridgestone.com/corporate/l
ocations/index.html

10

No.

IndustrySouthern

492Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Area

Company name

50

51

52

HONDA Motor

MAZDA

South
AfricaKenya

Western

CentralNorthern

Nigeria

A

Kenya

South
AfricaOperation typeA

Zimbabwe,
South
AfricaMitsui Engineering &Shipbuilding

MITSUBISHI
MOTORS

Eastern

Kenya

A

Tunisia

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

Business details

Reference

・The company has locally incorporated companies in South Africa, Nigeria, andKenya
・Sale of motorbikes and four-wheel vehicles in South Africa, manufacture and saleof motorbikes and four-wheel vehicles in Nigeria, and manufacture and sale ofmotorbikes and sale of four-wheel vehicles in Kenya
http://world.honda.com/
・Commenced the assembly and sale of motorbikes in Nigeria in 1981
http://www.honda.co.jp/news/2013/c130
・In South Africa, the company had outsourced manufacture of four-wheel vehicles
327c.html
since 1979, but after dissolving a partnership with DaimlerChrysler in 2000, it
http://www.honda.co.jp/news/2013/c130
established a locally incorporated company to commence the sale of motorbikes and918.html
four-wheel vehicles.
http://www.honda.co.jp/news/2015/c150
・In Kenya, the company established a sales office for four-wheel vehicles in 2011
713.html
and a locally incorporated company to commence the assembly and sale ofmotorbikes in 2013.
・In Nigeria, the company established a sales company for four-wheel vehicles in2013 and commenced manufacture in 2015.

・In South Africa, the company commenced the sale in 1963. In 2013, the company
established a sales company, which was incorporated into a joint venture with Itochu
in 2015.
・Assembly and sale of automobiles in Zimbabwe
・The company has a total of 22 sales agents in Africa and sales channels covering
20 countries.
・In Kenya, the company’s subsidiary, Burmeister & Scandinavian Contractor(BWSC), received an order for a medium-speed diesel generator in 2008.
・Received an order for container carrier cranes at Mombasa Port, Kenya, together
with Toyota Tusho Corporation

・Commenced the sale in Africa in 1968 and has production bases in South Africa
and Tunisia (for trucks)
・Established a representative office in Kenya in 2014
・The company has sales channels in 41 countries in Africa.

http://www.mazda.com/
http://www.mazda.com/en/about/d-list/
http://www2.mazda.com/ja/publicity/rele
ase/2015/201501/150116a.html

http://www.toyota-tsusho.com/english/
http://www.toyotatsusho.com/press/detail/131209_00241
1.htmlhttp://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/
http://www.mitsubishimotors.com/en/global_network/index.ht
ml#africa
http://www.mitsubishimotors.com/publish/pressrelease_jp/corporate/2013/news/detail4735.html
http://www.mitsubishimotors.com/jp/corporate/pressrelease/
corporate/detail865.html

11

No.

IndustrySouthern

53

2

3

Transportatio
n
equip
ment,
motor
vehicles andrelatedproducts

Precision
instruments
andmedicalmachinery

Area

Company name54

Eastern

CentralNorthern

Uganda,Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Zambia,
Kenya,
and Bus
Zimbabwe
Tanzania

YAZAKI

Morocco,Tunisia

YAMAHA MOTOR

56

Yokohama Rubber

South
Africa

57

A&D

South
AfricaSHIMADZU

Zambia,Zimbabwe,
Swaziland,
Namibia, Madagasc
Botswana, ar,South
Seychelles
Africa,, Mauritius
Mozambique,LesothoOperation typeB

South
Africa55

58

Western

Nigeria

Ghana,
Madagasc
Nigeria,ar
Senegal

A

A

Egypt

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Business details
・Sale of trucks and buses
・The company has sales bases in 30 countries in Africa.
・The company sells strategic FUSO trucks for Asia and Africa in Zambia, Kenya,
Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda.

・Manufacture and sale of wire harnesses for automobiles
・Commenced manufacturing in Morocco in 2003 and in Tunisia in 2009
・In South Africa, the company provided capital contribution to Hesto (a local wire
harness company) in 2005.

Reference

http://www.mitsubishi-fuso.com/en/
http://www.mitsubishifuso.com/jp/news/news_content/14052
0/140520_z.html

https://www.yazaki-group.com/global/
https://www.yazakigroup.com/company/ea.html

・Commenced support for fishery development in Mauritania in 1967
・Sale of outboard motors and motorbikes via local sales agents in African countries
excluding Somalia and South Sudan
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/
・In 2014, the company announced a plan to establish a company to manufacture
http://global.yamahaand sell motorbikes in Nigeria together with CFAO, a subsidiary of Toyota Tusho
motor.com/jp/news/2014/1213/nigeria.h
Corporation.
tml
・Utilized the grass-roots grant aid scheme and introduced small water purification
devices in Senegal and Mauritania

B・Sale in African countries, mainly in South Africa and Nigeria

http://www.yrc.co.jp/global/index.html

B・Development of blood pressure manometers, targeting South Africa

http://www.aandd.jp/
http://www.aandd.co.jp/adhome/ir/librar
y/yuho/pdf/20071225.pdf

A・In 2011, the company established a company to sell analysis measurement
equipment for universities and research institutes in South Africa and has a large
market share for general X-ray equipment.
・Sale in the ten neighboring countries (Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique, Madagascar, Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Swaziland)
・Opened a training institute in Lagos in 2013

http://www.shimadzu.com/
http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/news/press/
miq5fd0000000vzb.html

12

No.

3

Industry

Precision
instruments
andmedicalmachinery

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthernSouth
Africa59

Terumo60

TOSHIBA Medical
Systems

61

TOPCONSouth
Africa62

NIHON KOHDEN

South
Africa

63

NIPRO

South
Africa64

Hitachi Medical

65

HOYA

66

HORIBA

Operation typeA

Egypt

SenegalSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Reference・Sale of medicine and pharmaceutical products and medical equipment
・Commenced the sale in South Africa in the late 1960s via local sales agents
・Established a representative office in 2007
・The company’s market share in South Africa is 25% for artificial heart and lungequipment and 40% for blood packs mainly for cardiovascular diseases.
・Participated in the Ebola hemorrhagic fever prevention project in Ghana in 2014

http://www.terumo.com/
http://www.challengers.terumo.co.jp/pressrelease/2007/027.html
http://www.terumo.co.jp/pressrelease/d
etail/20141215/149

http://www.toshibamedicalsystems.com/

B

・Sale of MRI equipment in all areas in Africa

A

http://www.topcon.co.jp/en/
・The company’s Australian subsidiary, KEE Technologies, and Sokkia Topcon own
http://www.topcon.co.jp/invest/library/aa sales company for positioning equipment in South Africa.
nnual_r/pdf/ar2012.pdf

A・The company has a representative office in South Africa.
http://www.nihonkohden.com/
・Received an order for a biological information monitoring system from the Minister http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNZOof Health and Population in Egypt
56782910Z20C13A6MM0000/

A

Egypt

Business details

A・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2006 to sell dialysis
products and other medical materials
・Has a sales base in Senegal

http://www.nipro.co.jp/en/
http://www.nipro.co.jp/en/corporate/net
work/oversea_device.html

・Has a locally incorporated company in Egypt
・Sale of ultrasonography apparatuses and other medical equipment

http://www.hitachimedical.co.jp/english/
http://www.nikkan.co.jp/news/nkx01201
11107baam.html

A・Sale of eye care products
http://www.hoya.co.jp/english/index.htm
・The company purchased a local South African optical lens sales company in 2006land converted it into a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2011.

B

・Sale of testing equipment for glycosuria and blood, etc. in 38 countries in Africa

http://www.horiba.com/medical/
http://www.horiba.com/medical/contacts/distribution-network/africa/

13

No.

IndustrySouthern

4

Eastern

ATAGO

Uganda,Zambia,Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe,
Kenya,
Namibia,
Djibouti,
Botswana,
Sudan,
Malawi,Tanzania,
South
Madagasc
Africa,ar,
Mozambiq
Mauritius,ue
Rwanda

68

AMADA

South
Africa

69

AMANO

70

OHTAKE Noodle
Machine MFG

71

KITZ

72

KYOCERA Document South
Solutions
Africa

67

Gener
al
machineries

Area

Company nameWestern

CentralNorthern

Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire
Algeria,, Senegal, Cameroon, Egypt,
Nigeria,
DRC,
Tunisia,
Burkina
Chad
Morocco,
Faso,
Libya
Benin, Mali

Morocco

Kenya

South
AfricaNigeria

EgyptNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference・Sale of refractometer (saccharimeter etc) for quality control in Africa
・Service center in South Africa
・A locally incorporated company to be established in Nigeria in 2015

http://www.atago.net/

B・Sale of metalworking machinery

http://www.amada.co.jp/english/index.ht
ml
http://www.amada.co.jp/english/corpora
te/group.html

A・Sale of equipment for time information systems
・Purchased Horoquartz and Omnibadges in 2008

http://www.amano.co.jp/English/
http://www.amano.co.jp/information/pdf/
20071221France_Horosmart.pdf

B・Manufacturer of noodle‐making machines
・Sold and delivered noodle-making machines to the instant noodle plant of Indomie http://www.ohtake.jp/index.html(a major Indonesian food company) in Nigeria
・Sold and delivered noodle-making machines to a local cooking oil manufacturer

B・Sale of valves

http://www.kitz.co.jp/english/

A・Established a locally incorporated company to sell printers and office automationequipment in South Africa in 1997

http://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.c
o.za/

A

14

No.

IndustrySouthern

Reference

KubotaZambia,Zimbabwe,
Swaziland,
Namibia,
Kenya,
South
Tanzania,
Africa,
Mauritius
Botswana,
Mozambique,LesothoGhana, Côte d’Ivoire,
Togo,
Burkina
Faso,
Benin

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia

B

・Sale of agricultural equipment and industrial diesel engines via sales agents

http://www.kubota-global.net/
http://engine.kubota.co.jp/japanese/net
work/wws.html

GLORY

Angola,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia,
Botswana,
Uganda,Namibia,
Sudan,
Malawi,
Kenya,
South
Tanzania
Africa,Mozambique

Ghana,
Nigeria

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia,
Morocco,Libya

B・Sale of cash handling equipment

http://www.glory-global.com/

KOMATSU

Angola,Zambia,Namibia,
Kenya
South
Africa,Botswana

Senegal・Sale and service business activities for construction and mining machinery・Established a sales agent in South Africa in 1961, and later established a locallyincorporated company in 1997
・The company also has locally incorporated companies in Botswana, Namibia, andZambia, representative offices in Kenya and Senegal, and a service center inAngola.
・The company sells products most of all African countries.

http://www.komatsu.com/

76

Sanko Sango

South
AfricaGhana,Togo

B

・Exporting of sprinkler

http://www.sankosangyo.jp/kaisyaannai
.html

77

JUKI

A

・Sale of industrial sewing machine・Opened a representative office in Ethiopia in 2014

Gener
al
machineries

75

Kenya,
Tanzania

DRC

Northern

Business details

Western

74

CentralOperation typeEastern

73

4

Area

Company nameA

Gabon,DRC

Algeria,Egypt,
Libya,
MoroccoEthiopiaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.juki.co.jp/index_e.html

15

No.

4

Industry

Generalmachineries

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

78

SEIKO EPSON

Zimbabwe,
Uganda,South
Kenya
Africa79

ZephyrNamibia,South
Africa80

DAIKIN INDUSTRIESSouth
Africa81

TAKASAGO

South
Africa82

TATSUNOSouth
Africa

83

DISCO

84

TERAOKA SEIKO

85

TOHATSU

Western

Northern

Angola,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
Namibia,
South
Kenya
Africa,Botswana,
MozambiqueBusiness details

Reference
http://www.epson.com/
http://www.epson.com/middle_east_afri
ca.html・Sale of office automation equipment
・The company has a locally incorporated company in South Africa.

B・Sale of small wind power generators
http://www.zephyreco.co.jp/en/
・Selling electricity for a communication base station to mobile operators in Namibia, http://www.zephyreco.co.jp/jp/communit
South Africa, Kenya, and Tunisia
y/telecom.jsp

A・Sale of air conditioning devices
・Established a locally incorporated company in 1998 in South Africa
・Sold and delivered air conditioning devices to the new Stadium for the Soccer
World Cup・The company has sales agents in 46 African countries.

B・Sale of heat treat furnaces

http://www.takasago-inc.co.jp/english/
http://www.takasagoinc.co.jp/3products/supply_1.html

B・Sale of gas station equipment

http://www.tatsuno.co.jp/english/

MoroccoA・Established a locally incorporated company to do maintenance on precision
processing equipment in Morocco in 2003

http://www.disco.co.jp/eg/index.html
http://www.disco.co.jp/jp/news/bknumb
er2003.html

Egypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoB・Sale of measuring instruments for business use and production control systems
via local sales agents

http://www.digisystem.com/

B

・Commenced the sale of outboard engines via local sales agents in 2012

http://www.tohatsu.co.jp/marine_en/tabi
d/310/Default.aspx

Tunisia

Niger

Operation typeA

Ghana,
Nigeria

Kenya

Tanzania

CentralEgypt

Guinea,
Mauritania

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.daikin.com/index.html?ID=daikintop_jpn
http://www.daikinafrica.com/en/salesnetwork/

16

No.

4

Industry

Generalmachineries

Area

Company nameSouthern

86

Nasa

87

Nissei ASB

88

NIPPON PILLAR
PACKING89

BMC International

90

Hitachi Construction
Machinery91

FUJITEC

South
AfricaEastern

Kenya

Mozambiq Ethiopia,
ue
Kenya

Zambia,South
Africa,MozambiqueWestern

Nigeria

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

MoroccoA・Manufacturer of food processing equipment, packaging equipment, packaging
materials, and food processing materials
・In Morocco, the company established a joint company to manufacture tea bagswith a local company.

Egypt,
TunisiaA・Sale and service business activities for stretch blow molding machines
・The company has locally incorporated companies in South Africa and Nigeria, a
representative office in Kenya and sales agents in Egypt and Tunisia.

http://www.nisseiasb.co.jp/en/
http://www.nisseiasb.co.jp/en/officelocation/

AlgeriaA・Sale of liquid control equipment (seal, packing, etc.)
・Opened a representative office in Algeria in 2010

http://www.pillar.co.jp/pillar_eng/index.html
http://www.pillar.co.jp/contents/news/pd
f/2010/20100810.pdf

・Sale of cash registers and tax collection system for retail companies
・Established a locally incorporated company in 2006
・Introduced products in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Mozambique

http://www.bmcinc.co.jp/japan/index.ht
ml
http://ab-network.jp/wpcontent/uploads/2013/12/9b817d8f703
96c5b3ef6d7b941976e49.pdf
http://www.bf.embjapan.go.jp/BMC.html

Burkina
Faso

A

Ghana

A

Egypt

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A・Sale and service business activities for construction and mining machinery・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1998
・Established locally incorporated companies in Zambia and Mozambique andestablished Hitachi Construction Machinery Africa in 2010 as an area managing
company・Commenced the operation of a mining machinery parts recycling plant in Zambia
in 2012
・Opened a branch of Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe in Ghana in 2009
・Supervising business in East Africa from Dubai

http://www.nasaco.co.jp/e/index.html

http://www.hitachi-c-m.com/
http://www.hitachihri.com/research/organ/pdf/vol7_2_6.p
df

・Established a locally incorporated company to sell, install, and do maintenance for http://www.fujitec.co.jp/english/index.ht
elevators in Egypt in 1998
ml

17

No.

4

Industry

Generalmachineries

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

92

BROTHERINDUSTRIES

Angola,Zambia,Uganda,Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia,
Namibia,
Kenya,
South
Tanzania, Nigeria
Africa,Madagasc
Botswana,ar,
Malawi,
Mauritius
Mozambique

93

FURUKAWA ROCK
DRILL

South
Africa94

95

CentralNorthern

Egypt,
Libya

Operation typeA

Business details

Reference・Sale of printers and sewing machines
・The company established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1971
and has supervised business in 8 other countries in Southern Africa.
・Sale of products in 8 other African countries via sales agents.

http://www.brother.com/index.htm
http://welcome.brother.com/zaen/about-us/about-brother-southafrica.html
http://welcome.brother.com/za-en.html

A・Sale of rock drills
・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2012

http://www.furukawarockdrill.co.jp/en/

MarPlessSouth
AfricaA・Received an order of National Identification System using fingerprint
authentication in South Africa・Sale of fingerprinting authentication system, electronic registration, and electronic
passport to surrounding countries in southern Africa
・Marubeni provided a capital contribution of 51%.

http://www.marpless.co.za/

MAYEKAWASouth
AfricaA・Manufacture and sale of industrial freezer and various gas compressors
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2014

http://www.mayekawa.com/
http://www.mayekawa.com/about/netwo
rk/africa/

96

MAKITA

MoroccoA

97

Murata Machinery

Egypt

A

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Established a locally incorporated company to sell electric tools, gardening
equipment, etc., and parts thereof, and provide after-sales services in Morocco in
2008
・The company sells products in more than 30 African countries.

・Sale of textile machines and machine tools
・Established a representative office in Egypt in 1986

http://www.makita.biz/
http://www.makita.co.jp/ir/documents/pr
ess/2009/20090130_3.pdf

http://www.muratec.net/index.html
http://www.muratec.jp/tm/business/hist
ory.html

18

No.

IndustrySouthern
98

99

4

Area

Company name

METAWATER

MalawiNikkenAngola,Mozambique

100 YANAGIYASouth
Africa101 RICOH

South
Africa102 RISOSouth
AfricaGeneralmachineries

103 RHEON

South
Africa104 ZAMine

Botswana

Eastern
Kenya

Western

CentralNorthern

Togo

Seychelles, Somalia,
Madagascar

MoroccoOperation typeKenya,
Tanzania

Senegal,Nigeria

Gabon,
DRC

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Reference

B

・Provided on-vehicle water purifiers as grant aid to Kenya, Malawi, and Togo

B

・The company has sold and delivered mine clearance vehicles first to Angola in2007 and then to Angola and Mozambique (Angola: National De-mining Institutehttp://www.nikkenmfg.com/index.html(INAD); Mozambique: Government ODA). The company has delivered 32 vehicles toAngola and two vehicles to Mozambique in total.

B・Sale of manufacturing machines of fish sausages resembling crab meat

http://www.ube-yanagiya.com/

A・Sale of office automation equipment
・The company has a locally incorporated company in South Africa.

http://www.ricoh.com/
http://www.ricoh.co.jp/IR/financial_data/
annual_report/pdf/04/ar10.pdf

・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1995
・Commenced in 2007 the sale of low-price digital printers for school markets inemerging countries
・Sale of products in various African countries via sales agents

http://riso.co.jp/english/
http://riso.co.jp/english/company/history/
http://www.riso.co.jp/c/release/_riso_cz
180.html

A

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia,
Morocco,Libya

Business details

http://www.metawater.co.jp/eng/

B・Sale of manufacturing machines of cookies, bread, and hotdogs, and other foodmolding equipment
・Has shipped products to 12 African countries

http://www.rheon.com/en/index.php

A・Sale of mining machinery・Established a locally incorporated company in Botswana in 2012
・Subsidiary of Marubeni

http://www.zamineservice.com/

19

No.

IndustrySouthern

105

5

Area

Company name

Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries

South
AfricaEastern

Kenya

Western

SenegalCentralNorthern

Algeria,Egypt,
MoroccoOperation typeA

Heavymachineries

106 IHI

Angola,South
AfricaAlgeria

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

Business details

Reference・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2009http://www.mhi-global.com/index.html
・The company received an order for a geothermal power generation plant
http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/090526(generators) in Kenya in 2007, and received, together with the Korean company,
4822.html
Daewoo E&C Co., an order for a large-scale fertilizer manufacturing plant in Algeria http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/200708
in 2008.
284623.html
・In Egypt, the company had received an order for turbine equipment for steamhttp://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/200804
power generation lasting until 2008, jointly with Toyota Tsusho Corporation
234699.html
・In Morocco in 2011, the company received an order for turbine equipment for coal- http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/111115
fired power generation constructed by Mitsui & Co. and Daewoo E&C Co.
.html
・In Senegal, the company received an order for diesel engines for a power plant.
http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/110510
・In 2014, the company made an investment in Metito Holdings, a water business
5067.html
company in Dubai, together with Mitsubishi Corporation and JBIC.
http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/140708
・In 2015, the company formed a partnership with an Indian company, Mahindra & .html
Mahindra for industrial machinery business.
http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/150827
・In 2015, the company made an investment in Altaeros Energies, an American.html
company developing the Buoyant Airborne Turbine.
http://www.mhi.co.jp/news/story/150521-2.html・Established a representative office in Algeria in 1979
・In Algeria, the company received an order for boilers for a natural gas liquefaction
plant together with Itochu in 2005, and received an order for an LPG plant fromSONATRACH, jointly with Itochu, in 2007 and expanded the plant in 2010.
・In 2006, the company and Itochu jointly completed a seawater desalination andpower plant.
・In Angola, the company received an order for jib cranes for constructing marine
structures in 2010.
・In 2015, the company’s German subsidiary, Steinmüller Engineering, opened abranch in South Africa.

http://www.ihi.co.jp/en/index.html
http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/press/2011/2011-10-06/index.html
http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/all_news/2010/pr
ess/2010-8-30/index.html
http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/all_news/2006/pr
ess/2006-7-27/index.html
http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/all_news/2005/pr
ess/2005-8-30/index.html
http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/all_news/2011/pr
ess/2011-5-10/index.html

20

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

EasternSouth
Africa,107 Marubeni-Itochu Steel
Mozambique

6Ferrous, nonferrous
metal
and
products

Western

CentralNorthern

Nigeria

Operation typeANIPPON STEEL &108
SUMITOMO METALSouth
Africa,Kenya
Mozambique

109 NIPPON DENKOSouth
AfricaA

110 NISSHIN STEEL

South
AfricaA

111 VISCASSouth
AfricaTanzania

Nigeria

SenegalA

MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

B

Business details

Reference

・The company has a representative office in South Africa.
・In 2008, the company, together with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, made capital
contribution to SAFAL Steel (a South African manufacturer of galvanized steel
sheets), which is an affiliated company of the SAFAL Group, a steel sheet andhttp://www.benichu.com/english/
building material manufacturer in Mauritius.
http://www.benichu.com/press/2008/08
・In 2010, the company, together with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, made capital 1205.pdf
contribution to Midland Rolling Mills (MRM), a Nigerian cold rolled steel sheet
http://www.benichu.com/press/2010/10
manufacturer of the SAFAL Group.
1206.pdf
・In Mozambique in 2013, the company, together with JFE Steel, received an order http://www.benichu.com/press/2013/13
for high strength electric resistance welded steel pipes for pipelines in a gas
0207-1.pdf
transmission project conducted by SASOL (the largest resource extraction company
in South Africa).
・In 2008, the company, together with Marubeni-Itochu Steel, made capital
contribution to SAFAL Steel (a South African manufacturer of galvanized steel
sheets), which is an affiliated company of the SAFAL Group, a steel sheet andhttp://www.nssmc.com/en/index.html
building material manufacturer in Mauritius.
http://www.kachitas.com/service/news/
・In 2010, the company, together with Marubeni-Itochu Steel, made capital
200812/post-266.html
contribution to Midland Rolling Mills (MRM), a Nigerian cold rolled steel sheet
http://www.japanmetal.com/back_numb
manufacturer of the SAFAL Group.
er/news/newsidt2010120701.html
・In 2010, the company, together with Nittetsu Shoji Co., Ltd. (now Nippon Steel &http://www.nssmc.com/index.html/
Sumikin Bussan Corporation), made capital contribution to a coking coal
http://www.nssmc.com/news/20130404
development project in Mozambique and acquired mining interests in 2013.
_100.html/
・In 2015, the company concluded a MOU with a South African company, NAMPAK, http://www.nssmc.com/news/20150218
concerning the long-term stable supply of tin plate for food cans.
_100.html

・Commenced the production of ferrochromium jointly with Samancor in South
Africa in 1993 (withdrawal in 2010)
・Commenced the production of ferro-vanadium jointly with Highveld in 2002

http://www.nippondenko.co.jp/en/index.
html
http://www.nippondenko.co.jp/en/histor
y.html・Made capital contribution to Acerinox, a stainless steel manufacturer that has a
production base in South Africa
・Provided licensing to Columbus Stainless in South Africa

http://www.nisshin-steel.co.jp/en/
http://www.nisshinsteel.co.jp/files/news/2009/129_kessan
3-kabusiki_01.pdf

・A manufacturer of high-voltage cables, a fifty-fifty joint venture of Furukawa
Electric Co., Ltd. and Fujikura Ltd.
・Conducted an overhead transmission line project in South Africa, replacement of
OPGW hot lines in Senegal and Morocco, and laying of submarine transmission
lines in Tanzania

http://www.viscas.com/english/e_index.
html
http://www.viscas.com/project/project02.html
http://www.viscas.com/topics/topics09.
html

21

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern
112

FUJIDEN
INTERNATIONAL

Eastern

Western

6

Ferrous, nonferrous
metal
and
products

MIZUSHIMAFERROALLOY

115

YODOGAWA SteelWorks

116 JFE STEEL

7

Chemi
cal
products

MoroccoSouth
AfricaUgandaAngola,Mozambique

117 KANEKA

118 Kanebo Cosmetics

Northern

Uganda113 Furukawa Electric

114

CentralAlgeria

Kenya

Ghana,
NigeriaSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Made capital contribution to Roofings Rolling Mills in Uganda

http://www.fujiden.co.jp/english/
http://www.fujiden.co.jp/english/companyA・The company’s group company, OFS (America), announced a plan to construct aplant for communication optical cable in Morocco, which is scheduled to commence
operation in 2016.

http://www.furukawa.co.jp/english/index.htm

A・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1996
・Commenced the refining and export of ferro-manganese in 1997
・Established a JV, Cato Ridge, with Assmang (South Africa) and Sumitomo
Corporation.

http://www.mizukin.co.jp/english/index.
html
http://www.mizukin.co.jp/english/compa
ny/index.html

B・Sale of steel plate for construction
http://www.yodoko.co.jp/english/index.h・In 2010, the company sold a plant and provided licensing to Roofings Rolling Mills tml
in Uganda, which had been a trading partner.
https://www.yodoko.co.jp/release/2011/
pdf/110114.pdf

B

http://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/index.html
http://www.jfesteel.co.jp/release/2013/02/1302072.html
・The company, together with Marubeni-Itochu Steel, received orders for steel pipes http://www.jfefor pipelines (in 2013 in Mozambique, in 2011 in Algeria, and in 2009 in Angola).
steel.co.jp/release/2011/04/110418.htm
lhttp://www.jfesteel.co.jp/release/2010/01/100128.htm
lBB・Selling synthetic fiber as materials for women's wigs and hair extensions to Darlingand other local manufacturers in more than 10 African countries, including Nigeria
・Constructed a production facility exclusively for Africa with the annual production http://www.kaneka.co.jp/kaneka-e/
volume of 12,000 tons in Malaysia

・Sale of high-end cosmetics

http://www.kanebo.com/brands/sensai.
html

22

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

119 Kansai Paint

7

Chemi
cal
products

122 SHISEIDO

123

SUMITOMOCHEMICAL

124 Sekisui Chemical

Western

CentralNorthern

Zimbabwe,
South
Africa120 SARAYA

121 SUN ACE

Eastern

UgandaSouth
AfricaBusiness details

ReferenceA・The company has Kansai Plascon Africa, a locally incorporated company in South
Africa.
・In 2011, the company acquired 100% ownership of Freeworld Coatings (a South
African major paint company), and made it a consolidated subsidiary through TOB.
・The South African subsidy purchased Astra industry in Zimbabwe in 2013.

http://www.kansai.com/
http://www.kansai.com/our-globalnetwork/
http://www.kansai.co.jp/new/press14/20
130729.pdf

・Local production and sale of alcohol hand disinfectants・Established a locally incorporated company in Uganda in 2011

http://worldwide.saraya.com/
http://tearai.jp/images/news/pdf/release_120403.pdf

A

South
AfricaEgypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoSouth
AfricaOperation typeA・Manufacture and sale of polyvinyl chloride stabilizers, etc.
http://www.sunace-corp.com/
・Established a local sales company in South Africa in 1996, and established a plant http://www.sunacein 2003
corp.com/outline.html

B・In 2009, the company commenced the sale via duty free shops in Cairo, Egypt,
and also commenced the sale in Morocco via a network of cosmetic stores.
・In 2010, the company commenced the sale of high-quality cosmetics for luxury
department stores in South Africa via local sales agents.
・In 2012, the company commenced the sale of high-quality cosmetics for skin careand makeup in Tunisia via UTIC group.

Kenya,
Tanzania

A

Tanzania

ANote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Established a locally incorporated company to sell agricultural chemicals andmaterials for mosquito nets in South Africa in 1998
・In 2001, the company's mosquito nets were adopted as a partner product for the
WHO's Roll Back Malaria Campaign.
・In 2003, the company commenced licensing of technology to A to Z (a Tanzaniancompany)・The company constructed a mosquito net manufacturing plant jointly with A to Z in
2005.
・Commenced the sale of mosquito nets in Kenya in 2011
・Established an agricultural chemical research and development institution in
Tanzania in 2014

・The company has a locally incorporated company in Tanzania.
・The company works on the commercialization of biofuel made from Jatropha andconducted test growing in cooperation with Tottori University.

http://www.shiseido.com/
http://group.shiseido.co.jp/releimg/1800-j.pdfhttp://www.shiseido.co.jp/releimg/1983j.pdf

http://www.sumitomochem.co.jp/english/
http://www.sumitomochem.co.jp/company/group/oversea.ht
ml#areaEU

http://www.sekisuichemical.com/
http://www.alrc.tottoriu.ac.jp/annualreports/report08/2009-21.pdf

23

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

TAKASAGO
125
INTERNATIONAL

South
AfricaEastern

Western

MadagascarCentralNorthern

Morocco126 DenkaSouth
127 Nihon Chuo Kenkyujo
Africa

7

Chemi
cal
products

MITSUBISHI
128
CHEMICAL

Madagascar

130 Unicharm

8

Drugs
and
medicines

Egypt

131 Hoyu

South
Africa132 Astellas

South
Africa133

OTSUKAPHARMACEUTICAL

Business details

ReferenceA・The company has a local sales company in South Africa・Acquired Kananga (a natural material extraction and processing plant) in Morocco
in 2012
・In Madagascar in 2013, the company established a joint venture with Ramanan
Drive (a vanilla farm). The company extracts vanilla essence in Madagascar andprocesses it in Morocco.

http://www.takasago.com/en/index.html
http://www.takasago.com/en/aboutus/lo
cation/global.html#europe
http://pdf.irpocket.com/C4914/JA1b/q2
XN/qFvQ.pdf

B・Selling synthetic fiber as materials for women's wigs and hair extensions to local
plants in African countries

http://www.denka.co.jp/eng/index.html

B

South
Africa129 MIKOYA KOSHO

Operation typeEthiopia,
Djibouti,
Kenya,
Ghana, Cô
Sudan,
te d’Ivoire,
Madagasc
Nigeriaar,
Mauritius,
Uganda

Egypt

Egypt

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Export of heat shield paints used for plants, etc. to South Africa
・Granted the exclusive distribution right to GNT Holdings (a South Africancompany)

http://www.nckgp.com.e.nn.hp.transer.com/

B

http://www.m・In South Africa in 2003, the company established a joint venture to sell acrylic acidkagaku.co.jp/index_en.htm
and acryl ester with Sasol (a major chemical manufacturer), and in 2007, the
http://www.mcompany dissolved a joint project and continues to hold the right to receive thekagaku.co.jp/newsreleases/2007/20070
products of the joint venture.
910-2.html

B・Import of raw materials for vanilla perfume from Madagascar

http://www.mikoya.co.jp/corporate-e/A・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 2010
・Manufacture and sale of disposable baby diapers and women’s sanitary products

http://www.unicharm.co.jp/english/index
.html

B

・Sale of hair dyeing products in various African countries
・Licensed production of Bigen (hair dyeing product) at Luna, a local cosmetics
company in Egypt

http://www.hoyu.co.jp/corporate/en/
http://www.hoyu.co.jp/corporate/en/net
work/global.html
http://www.jetro.go.jp/jfile/report/07000
934/middle_east_africa_cosme.pdf

A・Sale of pharmaceutical products
・The company has a locally incorporated company in South Africa.

http://www.astellas.com/en/

A・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 1977
・Manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical liquid and curative medicine
・Commenced the sale of Pocari Sweat in 2008

http://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/index.php

24

No.

8

Indust
ry

Chemi
cal
products

Area

Company nameSouthern

134

RHOTO
PharmaceuticalSouth
Africa135 TAIHEIYO CEMENT

9Glass,
cemen
t andceramic
products

136 NGK SPARK PLUGS

137 LIXIL

Eastern

NorthernCôte d’Ivoire,Nigeria,
Benin

South
AfricaSouth
AfricaOperation typeBusiness details

A

B

・Export to Kenya and other countries
・Provided licensing to Mombasa Cement (a Kenyan company)

http://www.taiheiyocement.co.jp/english/index.html
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Cor
porate-News/-/539550/620042//15of4st/-/index.html

A・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2007, which is amanufacturing base of automobile spark plugs

http://www.ngkntk.co.jp/english/index.ht
ml
http://www.ngkntk.co.jp/news/2006/pdf/
20061128.pdf

・Agreed to acquire the stocks of a subsidiary of Distribution & Warehousing
Network, which manufactures and sells water faucets, sanitary ware, etc., in South
Africa in 2014
・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in 2015 to sell water-saving
toilet systems and waterless toilet systems

A

Tanzania

B・Sale of a towel brand using organic cotton made in Tanzania

B・Manufacture and sale of mosquito nets

B

・The company imports high quality natural mohair, which is superior in coolness,from South Africa and manufactures and sells suits.

NigeriaSouth
AfricaCôte d’Ivoire141 JAPAN BLUE

UgandaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Reference・Pharmaceutical products
http://www.rohto.co.jp/global/
・Sale of pharmaceutical products, etc. in South Africa via a South African company
http://www.rohto.co.jp/global/company/of US Mentholatum, which the company purchased in 1988
history/・The company established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in 2013 andhttp://www.rohto.co.jp/global/company/lsells antiphlogistic analgetic and pharmaceutical products.
ocation/group/

Kenya

139 Kuse Lace

142 Smiley earth

Central

Kenya

Kenya

138 IKEUCHI TOWEL

Textile,clothes
140 KONAKA
10, andleather

Western

B

B

・Manufacture and sale of luxury jeans
・The company put on sale jeans made of fabric that was woven from cotton madein Cote d'Ivoire in 2014.

・Production and sale of towels and bedding using organic cotton yarn made in
Ugandahttp://global.lixil.co.jp/
http://newsrelease.lixil.co.jp/news/2014/
080_overseas_0702_02.html

http://www.ikeuchi.org/en/
http://www.ikeuchitowel.com/community/interview4.html

http://www.konaka.co.jp/
http://www.konaka.co.jp/news/pdf/2012
0403_2.pdf

http://www.japanblue.co.jp/en/

http://www.smileyearth.co.jp/

25

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

143 DAIICHIBOTAISHOBOSEKI
144
Industries

145 Toray Industries

146 NACKS
10

Textile,clothes, andleather147

Hiroki Fur and Leather
FashionWestern

CentralNorthern

SenegalUganda,Sudan,
Zimbabwe
Madagasc
ar

Egypt

South
AfricaAlgeria

Operation type・Procures cotton made in Senegal as materials for products with fair tradecertification

http://www.ichibo.co.jp/index.html

B・The company mainly imports organic cotton wool, and makes yarn and sell it.

http://www.taishoboseki.co.jp/index-fe.html

・In Algeria in 2009, the company received an order for reverse osmosis (RO)membrane elements for a membrane method seawater desalination plant.
・In South Africa in 2012, the company delivered a mine drainage plant using a RO
membrane technology and system to Land Water through a grass roots grant-in-aid
project.

http://www.toray.com/

・Entrusted a local plant in Madagascar with production of cashmere sweaters

http://www.nacks.jp/
http://www.senken.co.jp/column/voice/n
acks0826/

B

B

EthiopiaA

Uganda149 UNITED ARROWS

Kenya

A

Burkina
Faso

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Reference

B

Madagascar

148 Phenix Logistics

Business details

B・Manufacture and sale of leather clothes, bags, etc. using Ethiopian sheepskin
・The company has a workshop in Ethiopia and imports products to Japan.
・Established a locally incorporated company in 2013

・Production of clothes using organic cotton, and export and sale of products to
Europe, America and Japan・In 1965, Yamato Shirts established the first shirt plant in Uganda, the Yujil plant,
through a joint venture. The company sold Yujil in 1984, but it repurchased Yujil in2001 and resumed operation.
・In 2007, JBIC gave a long-term loan (10 years) of 2.5 million dollars to thecompany.

・Announced a fashion brand "TÉGÊ" made by African artisans
・Sale of general merchandise made in Kenya and jackets made from fabric fromBurkina Faso in all stores

http://www.hiroki-co.jp/

https://www.jbic.go.jp/wpcontent/uploads/page/2013/08/13853/s
mes_200804.pdf

http://www.unitedarrows.co.jp/en/corporate/index.html

26

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

150 andu amet

Textile,clothes 151 Lee JAPAN10, andleather

152 YKK

Eastern

Other
miscellaneou
11s
products

155 Pentel

156

MITSUBISHI RAYON
CLEANSUI

157 ASICS

CentralNorthern

Business details
・Manufacture and sale of bags using Ethiopian sheepskin
・The company has a workshop in Ethiopia and imports products to Japan.
・Established a locally incorporated company in 2015

ReferenceA

UgandaB

・Production and sale of jeans using organic cotton made in UgandaA・Manufacture and sale of fasteners
http://www.ykk.com/english/
・Established locally incorporated companies in Swaziland (YKK Southern Africa) in
http://www.ykk.com/japanese/corporate
1976, in Egypt in 1996, in Tunisia in 1997, in Kenya in 2003, and in Morocco in 2005
/g_establishment/fastening.html
・The company has a branch office of Southern Africa in South Africa.

B・Sale of cooking stoves

http://www.toyotomi.jp/en-index/
http://www.toyotomi.jp/bop/A・Sale of writing instruments in South Africa
・Established a locally incorporated company in 1998
・Sells products at township spaza shops
・Sales agents in Kenya, Nigeria and Northern Africa

http://www.pilot.co.jp/company/english/i
ndex.html
http://www.pilot.co.jp/company/office_overseas/・Sale of writing instruments, etc. in South Africa
・The company has a sales company.
・In 2010, the company began a tie-up with Kokuyo for overseas sales activities
including those in African countries.

http://www.kokuyo.com/en/
http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/com/press/201
0/12/1116.html

Swaziland,
South
Kenya
AfricaEgypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoNigeriaSouth
AfricaOperation typeEthiopia

153 TOYOTOMI

154 PILOT

Western

Kenya

Nigeria

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia,
Morocco,Libya

http://www.anduamet.com/

http://lee-japan.jp/
http://leejapan.jp/uganda/index.html?tab=tab01

South
AfricaA

South
AfricaB

・Sale of home water purifiers

http://www.cleansui.com/en/South
AfricaA・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2014
・Signed an official supplier contract with the South African Rugby Union

http://www.asics.co.za/
http://www.asics.com/jp/ja-jp/
http://www.asics.com/jp/press/article/20
14-02-27Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

27

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Othermiscellaneou
11s
products

Western

CentralNorthern

Kenya,
Rwanda158 WBPF Training

159 DUNLOP SPORTS

EasternSouth
AfricaKenya,
Tanzania

160 HAMAYA

Ghana,
Senegal,Nigeria,
Mali

161 Mebiol

162 YAMAHA

South
AfricaKenya

Zimbabwe,
South
Africa,Botswana

Agriculture,forestr 165 Asante12
y andfisherie
166 Ajirushis

167 ISHII SEEDBusiness details

A・Sale of microbes for manufacturing bathroom deodorants and composting agentsin Rwanda and Kenya

B・Sale of golf clubs

B・Sale of recycled home electric appliances
http://www.hamaya・The company collects used home electric appliances and repairs them in Africa for
corporation.jp/english/index.html
reuse.

C

163 PHILIA

164 Emrosa

Operation typeBurundiKenya

Senegal,Mauritania

MoroccoSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・A university-launched bio-venture company whose core technology is hydrogel・Has been obtaining patents (already obtained patents in 38 African countries)

Reference

http://www.dunlopsports.co.jp/en/
http://www.dunlopsports.co.jp/company/group/index.html

http://www.mebiol.co.jp/en/

A・Sale of music instruments
・Established representative office in South Africa in 2013

http://www.yamaha.com/
http://jp.yamaha.com/news_release/20
13/pdf/1304240201.pdf

A・Sale of tablets to stop mosquitoes from growing and reduce the occurrence ofmosquitoes
・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya

http://www.philiacorp.com/english/index_e.html

A・Sale of agricultural materials
・The company has a corporation in South Africa, covering southern Africa

http://emrojapan.com/examples/globalcases/middleeast-andafrica/southafrica.html

B・Direct import of roses from Kenyan farms

http://www.africa-flower.com/

B・Import and sale of octopus

http://www.ajirushi.com/wpkanri/wpcontent/themes/ajirushi/pdf/ajirushienglish2015.pdf
http://www.ajirushi.com/quality02/

B・Export of cabbage seeds

http://www.shizuokacci.or.jp/assets/files/Sing201108/Sing8P37.pdf

28

No.

IndustrySouthern
168 KANEDAI

169

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Angola,Namibia

Kawasaki Flora
Auction Market

170 KYOKUYO

171 CLASSIC JAPAN

Agriculture,forestr12
y andfisheries

Area

Company name

Mozambiq
Kenyaue

Ethiopia,
Kenya

Egypt,
Morocco172 Kobayashi Kei

173 Sakata Seed

Zambia,Zimbabwe,
Swaziland, Uganda,
Namibia, Kenya,South
Sudan,
Africa,Tanzania,
Botswana, Madagasc
Malawi,ar,
Mozambiq Mauritiusue,
LesothoBurkinaFaso, Côte
d’Ivoire,
Ghana,
SenegalEgyptOperation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Crab fishing and fishery processing in Namibia and Angola, and import of products
http://www.kanedai・ The company has a joint venture in Namibia.
kesennuma.co.jp/english/index.html

B・Import of cut flowers, such as roses

B・Import of Nile perch from eastern Africa and shrimps from MozambiqueB・Import of roses

B・Import of spices
・Import of capsicum and other spices from Morocco and herbs, etc. from Morocco
and Egypt and sale of products

http://www.kawasakikaki.co.jp/en/index.
html

http://classicjapan.co.jp/flowers/vol14ro
se_echio.html

http://www.k-kobayashi.com/english/

A・Established a representative office in Kenya in 2011
・In South Africa in 1999, the company acquired 100% ownership of May Ford (avegetable seed company).
・Sale of seeds in southern and eastern Africa using sales agents

http://www.sakataseed.co.jp/corporate/english/index.html

174 Sakano Tochu

UgandaA・Cultivation and import of organic sesame, and cultivation and sale of organic
vegetables in Uganda
・Established a locally incorporated company in Uganda in 2014.

http://www.on-the-slope.com/english

175 San-Ei Gen F.F.I.

Sudan

B

・Import of gum arabic

http://www.saneigenffi.co.jp/

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

29

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

176 Santo Shokuhin

CentralNorthern
Egypt

Operation typeB

Business details

Reference・Import of dried vegetables, frozen vegetables, and frozen strawberries from Egypt http://www.santo-syokuhin.jp/

177 SHOEI SHOKAI

MadagascarB・Import of eels

http://www.shoeishokai.com/englirs/SHOEI%20ENGLIS
H20140905.pdf
http://www.shoei-shokai.com/Topics/

178 DAIICHI KAKI

Kenya

B

・Import of cut flowers, such as roses

http://www.dkfn.com/

179 TAIYO A&F

Namibia,South
AfricaAgriculture,forestr12
y andfisherie 180 TachibanasA

Uganda,Ghana,
Madagasc Sierra
ar
Leone

・Import of foodstuffs, such as cacao beans from Ghana, Sierra Leone and Uganda, http://www.tachibanaand vanilla from Madagascar
grp.co.jp/english/index.html

B・Import and sale of octopus

http://www.tsukukatsu.co.jp/index.html

B・The company acquired the set net fishing rights for tuna in Morocco and imports
tuna.

http://www.dohsui.co.jp/english/

B・Import of octopus

http://www.toyoreizo.com/work/story_06.php

Kenya,
Tanzania

B・Import and domestic processing of macadamia nuts and cashew nuts

http://www.macadamianutsjapan.com/index.htm

Sudan

B

・Import of gum arabic, etc.

http://www.nfy.co.jp/foods/detail/gum_arabic.php

Mauritania

182 DOHSUI

Morocco183 Toyo Reizo

185

NIPPON FUNMATSUYAKUHIN

Mauritania

South
Africa,Malawi

http://www.tafco.jp/
http://www.tafco.jp/network/internationa
l.htmlB

181 TSUKUKATSU

184 Nidaf Japan・Subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro・The company has locally incorporated companies in South Africa and Namibia.
・Conducts bottom longline fishing (Dissostichus eleginoides, etc.) in South Africa
・Also commenced independent fishing using Japanese flag vessels in 2003
・Crab basket fishing in Namibia

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

30

No.

IndustrySouthern

Eastern

186 Hardnut International

Uganda,Kenya,
Tanzania,
Rwanda187 Far East

Uganda,Kenya,
Djibouti

188 Flower Auction JapanKenya

189 VOX TRADING
Agriculture,forestr12
y andfisherie
190 MARUHA NICHIROs

191

Rwanda Nuts
Company

192 YMS

193 GHS SHOP

Foods
and
13
beverages

Area

Company name

194 AJINOMOTOSouth
AfricaWestern

CentralNorthern

Egypt

Uganda,MadagascarEgypt,
MoroccoOperation typeBusiness details

Reference

B・Import of macadamia nuts, macadamia oil, and cashew nuts

http://www.hardnutint.com/en/index.html

B・Import and sale of foodstuffs, such as salt from Egypt and dried fruits from
Ugandahttp://fareastinc.co.jp/english

B・Import of cut flowers, such as roses

http://www.faj.co.jp/english/01_CORPORATE/01_1_greetings.html

B

http://www.voxtrading.jp/
・Import of basil and onions from Egypt, vanilla from Uganda, and other spices from http://www.jetro.go.jp/world/africa/semi
Madagascar, South Africa, and Morocco
nar_reports/pdf/201207_material_05_1.
pdf
http://www.maruhanichiro.co.jp/english/
http://www.maruhanichiro.co.jp/ir/investors/guide/advantage/A・The company has a representative office in Morocco.
・Import of octopus from western Africa

RwandaA

・Production and processing of macadamia nuts in Rwanda

South
Ethiopia,
Africa,Kenya,
Zimbabwe Mauritius

B・Import of cut flowers from African countries

http://www.yms-co.jp/en/about.html

B・Import of roses from Kenya

http://www.nextgarden.jp/Shop/index.ht
mlMorocco

Kenya

Kenya

Côte d’Ivoire,Ghana,
Nigeria

Cameroon Egypt

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A・Sale of umami seasonings and processed food・Established a locally incorporated company in Nigeria in 1991, and conducts
repacking at a plant and sales to sales agents by employing local staff
・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 2011
・Established a locally incorporated company in Cote d'Ivoire in 2012 andcommenced repacking production and sale in 11 western African countries
・Established representative offices in Kenya and Cameroon in 2013
・Conducts business of engineered food for weaning children in Ghana
・The company is preparing for the production and sale of instant noodles in Nigeria
as a joint venture with Toyo Suisan

http://www.ajinomoto.com/en/
http://www.ajinomoto.com/jp/presscenter/press/detail/2011_06_09.html
http://www.ajinomoto.com/jp/presscenter/press/detail/2013_05_15.html
http://www.ajinomoto.com/jp/presscenter/press/detail/2013_12_18_1.html

31

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern
195 Kao Corporation

13

Kenya

South
AfricaNorthern

NigeriaB

A

Nigeria

Kenya

Operation typeB

Kenya

199 TOYO Suisan

200 NISSIN FOODS

CentralGhana,
Togo,
Nigeria,
Burkina
Faso,
Benin, Mali

Foods
and
beverages

198 Juar Japan

WesternKenya

196 Suntory Holdings

197 SANYO FOODS

Eastern

MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Business details

Reference

http://www.kao.com/jp/en/corp/
・Import of tea leaves from Kenya as materials for tea catechin contained in food for http://jspecified health use
net21.smrj.go.jp/develop/foods/entry/2
010120801.html
・Acquired the African market through purchase of the beverage business of
GlaxoSmithKline (a UK company) in 2013
・The energy drink that the company acquired occupies a high share in Nigeria,
Kenya, etc.

・In 2013, made capital contribution to a local company held by Olam International(general trading company of agricultural products in Singapore) in Nigeria, andentered the instant noodles market
・Commenced comprehensive food business with Olam in seven African countries
in 2014, and made capital contribution of 25% to the holding company

http://www.suntory.com/
http://www.suntory.co.jp/softdrink/ir/lounge/global/201406.html

http://www.sanyo-foods.co.jp/eng/
http://olamgroup.com/news/olaminternational-and-sanya-foods-formjoint-venture-in-nigeria-to-manufactureand-distribute-instandnoodles/#sthash.QVfWthuk.dpbs
http://olamgroup.com/news/olaminternational-expands-partnershipsanyo-foods-grow-packaged-foodbusiness-sub-saharanafrica/#sthash.geKjzDAQ.dpbs

B・Manufacture and sale of healthy drinks using tea leaves made in Kenya

http://www.juarjapan.co.jp/

A・Already announced start of production and sale of instant noodles in Nigeria as a
joint venture with AJINOMOTO

http://www.maruchan.com/about-us
http://www.maruchan.co.jp/ir/other/docu
ments/131218_ajinomoto1.pdf

・Established a joint venture with Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture andTechnology in Kenya in 2013
・The company imports and sells instant noodles produced at an Indian subsidiary,
but plans to make a shift to production in Kenya.
・Established a sales company in Morocco in 2014

https://www.nissin.com/en_jp/
http://www.nissinfoodsholdings.co.jp/img/show_pdf.php?type=news&image=3123_pdf_1.pdf&pdf=1
http://s.nikkei.com/10ISlCZ
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNZO
68257850U4A310C1TJ1000/

A

32

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

201 JT

Eastern

Western

Zambia,Sudan,
Zimbabwe,
SouthSuda
Southn,Africa,Tanzania
MalawiCentralNorthern

Egypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoOperation typeUganda203 UCC Ueshima Coffee

Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Tanzania

ZambiaA

B

・Cultivation of sesame in Uganda and its import

205 Hokuetsu Kishu Paper

South
Africa206 NIPPON PAPER

South
Africa

Pulp
and
paper

B

Madagasc
ar204 OJI PAPER

14

Côte d’Ivoire207 KOBE BUSSAN

Egypt

LesothoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Import of coffee beans
・Commenced import of coffee beans from Zambia in 2015
・Plans to hold the "UCC Quality Contest" in Ethiopia in 2016

http://www.henko.co.jp/
http://www.henko.co.jp/henko/jetro.html

http://www.ucc.co.jp/eng/
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDZ24ICE_Q5A930C1TI5000/

B

・Tree planting for acquiring CO2 credits and materials for paper making in
Madagascar

http://www.ojipaper.co.jp/
http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kaigai/cdm/pdf/20sisin_7.pdf

A・The company owns a plantation in South Africa and imports wood chips.

http://www.hokuetsukishu.jp/en/index.html

A・In South Africa in 1996, the company established Forest Resources, a locallyincorporated company, jointly with Sumitomo Corporation and CTC, a local forestry
union.

http://www.nipponpapergroup.com/english/http://www.nipponpapergroup.com/contents/000163733.pdf

A・Operation of wholesale supermarkets for business and import of foodstuffs andvegetables for supermarkets
・Established a locally incorporated company in 2006

http://www.kobebussan.co.jp/english/

B・Import of farmed salmon trout from Lethoto

http://www.cgcjapan.co.jp/english/index.html

Retail15 business
208 CGCJapan

Reference・Manufacture and sale of tobacco, etc.
http://www.jt.com/
・Purchased Haggar Cigarette & Tobacco Factory (HCTF), a tobacco company in
http://www.jti.co.jp/investors/press_rele
Sudan and South Sudan, in 2011
ases/2011/pdf/20111201_01.pdf
・Purchased Al Nakhla Tobacco, a water pipe company, in Egypt in 2013
http://www.jti.co.jp/investors/press_rele
・Made capital contribution of 75% to Tanzania Cigarette, a cigarette manufacturer ases/2011/pdf/20110728_03.pdf
in Tanzania
http://www.jti.co.jp/investors/press_rele
・The company holds JTI Leaf Services, a tobacco purchase company.
ases/2012/pdf/20121116_03.pdf
・The company has seven production bases in total in South Africa and Tunisia.
http://www.jti.co.jp/investors/press_rele
・Procures materials for leaf tobacco from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, ases/2007/pdf/20070418_02.pdf
Tanzania, Morocco, and Tunisia
http://www.jti.co.jp/recruit/fresh/sogo/20
14/people/shigeruishii/index.html

Foods
and
13
beverages
202 Yamada Seiyu

Business details

33

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

209 Daiso

Mauritius

B・Opening a shop of 50 rupee (like 100 yen shop in Japan) in Mauritius

http://www.daisosangyo.co.jp/shop/index.php?prc=overseas&sid=17

210 Ryohin Keikaku (Muji)

Kenya

B

・The company plans and designs Christmas gifts jointly with JICA.
・In 2011 and 2012, the company imported and sold small articles made in Kenya.

http://www.muji.net/lab/found/kenya/en/

211

Kiyomura(Sushizanmai)

Djibouti,
Somalia

B・Support for the local fishery industry and import of tuna

http://www.kiyomura.co.jp.e.sv.hp.transer.com/212

TO.MO.CA. COFFEEJAPAN

Ethiopia

B

・Started café business in Tokyo in 2015 as a branch shop of a well-established cafe
specializing in Ethiopian coffee
http://www.tomocacoffee.co.jp/

Retail15 busine
ss

Toridoll (Marugame213
seimen)Kenya

Restau
rants
16
and
food
service

Kenya,
Tanzania,
Rwanda214 ZENSHO

215 HotLand

EducatWILSON LEARNING
17
ion
216
WORLDWIDE
serviceA

Mauritania

South
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in April 2014
・Opened a Japanese fast-food restaurant whose main menu is teriyaki chicken in
Nairobi in 2015

http://www.toridoll.com/en/
http://www.toridoll.com/ir/pdf/140512ke.
pdf

http://www.zensho.co.jp/en/
http://www.zensho.co.jp/jp/index.html
http://www.zensho.co.jp/jp/responsibility/ft/kenya.html
http://www.zensho.co.jp/jp/responsibility/ft/tanzania.html?id=sb
http://www.zensho.co.jp/jp/responsibility/ft/rwanda.html?id=sb

B

・The company commenced fair trade of tea made in Kenya and coffee made in
Tanzania in 2009, and commenced fair trade of coffee made in Rwanda in 2011.

A

・Agreed to establish a joint venture with MAURINVEST (a Mauritanian company) in
http://www.hotland.co.jp/
2015
http://v4.eir・Procurement and processing of octopus which is a material for fried octopus
parts.net/v4Contents/View.aspx?cat=td
dumplings
net&sid=1269794

A・Consulting services on development of human resources and organizations
・The company’s parent company, Wilson Learning (a US company), establishedWilson Learning Southern Africa in South Africa in 1996. A Japanese company
acquired 100% ownership of the company in 2002.

http://www.wlw.co.jp/

34

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

EducatKumon Educational
17
ion
217
Japan
service

Eastern

Northern

Operation typeA

NigeriaA

Business details
・Provision of Kumon’s education services
・Opened classes in South Africa in 1991 and established a locally incorporated
company in 1997
・Opened classes also in Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and Kenya
・The company has a locally incorporated company in Nigeria.
・Export of Japanese animation to Nigeria
・Development of environmental materials for soil
・Study of combined development of agriculture and culture fishery・Broadcasted Japanese animation produced by Tezuka Productions on abroadcasting station in Nigeria in 2014

Reference

http://www.kumongroup.com/eng/world/

http://taiyoindustry.jp/index_english.html

B・Produced "Robot Atom," a remake of Astro Boy, jointly with a major commercial
TV station in Nigeria, and commenced broadcasting it in 2014

http://www.nikkei.com/news/printarticle/?R_FLG=0&bf=0&ng=DGXNAS
FE0102Q_R00C14A4000000&uah=DF270920114369

Zimbabwe

B・Entrusted with server configuration by the government of Zimbabwe

http://www.bizright.co.jp/

South
AfricaA・The company’s subsidiary Kobo Canada commenced e-book business in South
Africa in 2013.

https://www.kobo.com/aboutus

B・Offshore development of software to Rwanda

http://www.rexvirt.com/

219 Tezuka Productions

223 AMP MUSIC

CentralZambia,South
Africa,Kenya
Botswana,
Namibia

218 Taiyo Industry Africa

Information
andcomm 220 BiZright Technology
unication
18
service,221 RAKUTEN
software, andcontents
REXVIRT
222
COMMUNICATIONS

Western

Nigeria

RwandaKenya

SenegalNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

B・Music label to sell African indie music to the world via the Internet
・Delivers and sells music of musicians living in deprived areas in Kenya andSenegal by using iTunes, etc.
・Produced a campaign song for instant noodles which NISSIN FOODS sells in
Kenya in 2013
・Produced the ending theme song for Robot Atom, which Tezuka Productionscommenced broadcasting in Nigeria in 2014

http://amp-music.net/

35

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthernInform 224 NTT
ation
and
comm
unication
18
service,
software, andcontents

Eastern

Western

Angola,Zimbabwe,
Zambia,Uganda,Namibia,
Kenya,
South
Ghana,
Tanzania,
Africa,Nigeria
Mauritius,
Botswana,
RwandaMalawi,MozambiqueCentralNorthern

Gabon,DRC,
DRC,
BurundiAlgeria,Egypt,
MoroccoOperation typeBusiness details

A・Building and maintenance of IT system infrastructure for business customers
http://www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html
・The company has business bases in 21 African countries and can provide
http://www.ntt.com/global/data/area_afri
services in 34 countries.
ca.html・In 2010 the company purchased Dimension Data, a major South African IT system http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2010/1007/10
company has many subsidiary including Internet Solutions in South Africa.
0715a_1.html

http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html
http://www.workonline.co.za/index.php/
2015/ntt-communications-andworkonline-partner-to-provideenhanced-ip-network-connectivity-inafrica/

225 NTT Communications

South
AfricaA

・Announced in 2015 a partnership agreement with Workonline, a service provider
in South Africa
・The company provides enhanced IP network connectivity in Sub Saharan Africa

226 ANGOLA

AngolaC・Oil field development in Angola
・Member of the Mitsubishi Corporation GroupA・Established a locally incorporated company in Liberia in 1989
・Conducts leasing business of LPG tankers

C・Oil field development in Angola

A・Holds 25% of interests for the Akouta Uranium Mine in Niger

Naturalresour
227 Iwatanicedevelo19 pment
andrefiner 228 AXIX
y,
EnergyOverseas Uranium
229 Resources
Development

Liberia

AngolaNiger

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Reference

http://www.iwatani-europe.de/networkoperational-companies.html

http://mric.jogmec.go.jp/public/report/2
011-04/niger_11.pdf

36

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

230 INPEX

231

Western

Angola,MozambiqueCentral

DRC

Northern

Egypt,
Libya,
Algeria

Kenya,
Tanzania

Digital Grid

Naturalresour232 JDCcedevelo19 pment
andrefinery,Energy233 NIPPON BIODIESEL

Eastern

Angola,Namibia

Ghana,
Nigeria

Cameroon,
Tunisia
DRC

MozambiqueCameroon,
Ghana, CôGabon,
te d’Ivoire,
Equatorial
Nigeria
GuineaOperation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA

http://www.inpex.co.jp/english/index.ht
ml
http://www.inpex.co.jp/business/africa.h・Exploration, development and production of oil and gas
tml#afrc02
・Participated in Block 14 (crude oil) in Angola in 2012
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/inpex/2004
・Commenced the production of natural gas at the Ohanet gas field in Algeria in/0927.pdf
2003
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/pdf/2012/2
・Commenced the exploration and development of oil in Libya in 2005
0120821.pdf
・Has explored, developed, and produced oil in DRC since 1975
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/teikokuoil/p・In 2013, Inpex Mozambique, a subsidiary, acquired oil and natural gas exploration
ress/031029.pdf
interests in Mozambique
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/teikokuoil/p・Exploration of oil in Egypt
ress/050727.pdf
・Established representative offices in Libya and Egypt
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/teikokuoil/p
ress/051003.pdf
http://www.inpex.co.jp/news/pdf/2013/2

A

・A spin-out company from a university that develops and promotes digital gridtechnologies. Its subsidiary, Digital Grid Solutions, runs power retailing business for
non-electrified areas in Kenya and Tanzania.

B・Offshore drilling for development of oil and natural gas
・The company has a locally incorporated company in Nigeria and a representative
http://www.jdc.co.jp/en/business/offshor
office in Angola.
e/customer-offshore.php
・The company has received orders in Ghana, Cameroon, Angola, Namibia, Congo,
Nigeria, and Tunisia.

A・The company has two locally incorporated companies in Mozambique・The company has produced Jatropha with contracted farmers.
・Raised 1.5 million dollars from the investment fund sponsored by European
development institutions and international development institutions in 2014
・Conducted empirical experiments on development of electronic money
infrastructure in rural area.
・Plan to establish a bank in 2016

A・Construction, leasing, and operation of floating production, storage and offloading(FPSO) of oil and gas
・The company has locally incorporated companies in Angola, Ghana, and Cote
http://www.modec.com/fps/locations/ind
d'Ivoire.
ex.html・Conducted projects in Angola, Ghana, Gabon, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial
Guinea, and Nigeria

http://digitalgrid.com/index_en.html

http://www.nbf-web.com/index.html
http://www.valuepress.com/pressrelease/121788

234 MODEC

Angola235 Asia Minerals

South
Africa,ZambiaA・Mineral resources-related business started by a Japanese national
・Mining of manganese ore in South Africa
・The company has a locally incorporated company in South Africa.

http://www.asiaminerals.com/en/company_about.php

South
AfricaA・Sale of lubricant oil to various African countries
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in April 2014

http://www.noe.jxgroup.co.jp/newsrelease/2013/2013111
1_01_0944355.html

236

JX Nippon Oil &EnergyNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

37

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

Central

237 KINDEN

Egypt

238 TOYO Engineering

239 Chiyoda

Northern

Nigeria

Angola,MozambiqueOperation type

A

B

Gabon

Algeria

B

Constructionengine20
ering
andplants240 JGC

Angola,MozambiqueNigeria

Algeria,Egypt,Lybia

TANJAP
241 CONSTRUCTIONCOMPANY

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

B

A

Business details

Reference

・General equipment engineering company (electrical and instrumentationequipment, etc.) of the Kansai Electric Power Group・The company has a place of business in Egypt.

http://www.kinden.co.jp/english/index.ht
ml
http://www.kinden.co.jp/company/overs
eas_office.html

・In Nigeria in 2012, the company provided a license for urea for a fertilizer plant
and received an order to conduct the basic design and detailed design of a fertilizer
plant, equipment procurement, and test operation.

http://www.toyo-eng.com/jp/en/
http://www.toyoeng.co.jp/ja/company/news/2012/2012
1204/index.html

・Constructed an LNG plant in Algeria
・Acquired a 25% equity stake in an oil development project of MPDC Gabon, a
subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, from Mitsubishi in Angola
・Acquired Exodus, a UK company, for about 10 billion yen in 2013
・Selected in 2015 as an EPC contractor for the construction of a liquefied natural
gas station in a natural gas field in Mozambique for which Mitsui & Co., etc. holds
interests

https://www.chiyodacorp.com/en/index.html
https://www.chiyodacorp.com/news/pressrelease/2015/150
518.pdf

・Plant design and construction businesses mainly in relation to oil and gas
・Mozambique: Received an order for the basic design of an LNG plant in 2013
jointly with the US company Fluor
・Algeria: Established a thermal power plant maintenance and operation service
company in 2008 jointly with SONELGAZ (an Algerian company) and SOGEX (anOmani company); Received an order to construct a large gas processing facility in
2009; Received an order to construct a crude oil processing plant in 2011; Received
an order to construct a crude oil and gas processing facility
http://www.jgc.com/en/index.html
・Egypt: Made investments in ammonia production and sales business in 2006
http://www.jgc.com/jp/03_projects/proje
jointly with Mitsubishi Corporation, etc.
cts_africa.html
・Angola: Delivered an offshore LPG processing plant in 2004; Received an order to
conduct the basic design of an LNG plant in 2005 jointly with KBR (a US company)
and Techinip USA
・Nigeria: Concluded a contract to expand a large LNG plant in 2004 jointly with
KBR (a US company), Technip (a French company), and SNAMPROGETTI (anItalian company)

・A construction company in Tanzania. Established by a Japanese national.

38

No.

Industry

Generaltrading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

Gener
al
trading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

Area

Company nameSouthern

242 ITOCHU

243 SUMITOMO

Eastern

Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia,
South
Kenya
AfricaAngola,South
Africa,MozambiqueWestern

Ghana,
Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire

Kenya,
Tanzania, Ghana,
Madagasc NigeriaarCentralNorthern

Algeria,
MoroccoAlgeria,
MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeA

A

Business details

Reference

・The company has business bases in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ethiopia,
Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Algeria and Morocco.
・South Africa: Sale of products of Komatsu, and import and export of automobiles;
http://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/networ
Made capital contribution to a steel sheet manufacturer of the SAFAL Group in 2008;
k/africa/
Participated in a platinum and nickel exploration project by a Canadian company in
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2012/12
2011; Concluded a power purchase agreement in a photovoltaic power generation
1130.html
project in 2012; Established a JV with Mazda Motor in 2015
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2011/11
・Namibia: Secured interests for a gas field in 2007; Made additional investments in a
0603.html
new uranium mine development project in 2010
http://www.benichu.com/press/2008/08
・Zimbabwe: Made capital contribution of 25% to MOTEC; Production and sale of1205.pdf
automobiles of Mazda Motor
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/business/che・Mozambique: Consignment of production and import of edible soy beans
mical/field/04/
・Ethiopia: Import of coffee and sesame
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2006/06
・Cote d'Ivoire: Established a locally incorporated company in February 20140727.html
・Nigeria: A locally incorporated company; Made capital contribution to a steel sheet
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2007/07
processing company of the SAFAL Group in 2010
0423.html
・Algeria: Developed a natural gas field in 2000; Received an order for boilers for a
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2007/07
natural gas liquefaction plant together with IHI in 2005; Completed a seawater
0404_2.html
desalination and power plant together with IHI in 2006; Received an order tohttp://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2010/10
construct an expressway together with Kajima, Taisei Construction, Nishimatsu
0709.html
Construction, and Hazama in 2006
http://www.itochu.co.jp/ja/news/2013/13
・Egypt: Import and business expansion of textile and clothes
10105.html
・Other: Import of cacao beans (Ghana), import of octopus (Mauritania), received
orders for steel pipes for gas pipelines (in Mozambique in 2013, in Algeria in 2011,etc.)
・The company has a locally incorporated company in South Africa, and businessbases in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Ghana, Nigeria,
Algeria and Morocco.
・South Africa: Invested in a South African company that produces manganese ore, http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/english/
etc. in 2007; Concluded a power purchase agreement in a wind power generationcompany/point/africa.html
project in 2012; Refining and export of ferromanganese together with Mizushima
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/20
Ferroalloy, etc. in 1997; A tree planting project together with Nippon Paper, etc. in
12/20121106_110004.html
1996; Export of wood chips; Provided capital contribution to Philagro, a locally
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/20
incorporated company to sell agricultural chemicals of Sumitomo Chemical;
13/20130404_110004.html
Transformed a business base into a locally incorporated company in 2014
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/20
・Kenya: Sale of agricultural chemicals for cultivation of cut roses
06/20061030_121918.html
・Tanzania: Received an order to construct a natural gas fired power plant in 2012, http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/busines
received an order to make search-tubess_overview/resource_chemical/outline1
・Madagascar: Participated in a nickel mine project together with a Canadian
6a.htmlcompany and a Korean company in 2005; Commenced commercial production in
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/de
2014
tail/id=28032
・Nigeria: Sale of automobiles of Toyota Motor
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/20
・Ghana: Participated in a combined thermal power generation project in 201412/20120607_110001.html
・Egypt: Received an order to construct thermal power plants together with Hitachi http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/news/20
over the period from 2002 to 200911/20111115_110000.html
・Tunisia: Received an order for vehicles for Tunisian Railways in 2008; Received
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/businesorders for broadcasting equipment for the national TV broadcasting company in 2009 s_overview/infrastructure/outline11b.ht
and 2015
ml
・Libya: A fresh water and power generation project in the private sector, and sale ofautomobiles of Toyota Motor
39

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

244 Sojitz

Angola,South
Africa,Mozambique

Eastern

Western

Nigeria

CentralGabon

Northern

Algeria,Egypt,
Morocco,
Libya

Operation typeA

Generaltrading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

245 TOYOTA TSUSHOSouth
Uganda,Africa,Kenya,
Zimbabwe, SouthSuda Nigeria
Zambia,n,
Malawi
Mauritius

Algeria,Egypt,
Tunisia

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

A

Business details

Reference

http://www.sojitz.com/en/corporate/netw
・The company has business bases in South Africa, Angola, Nigeria, Egypt,ork/middleeast_africa/index.php
Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2011/201
・Mozambique: Established a wholly-owned company, Sojitz Maputo Cellulose
10701.html(SOMACEL), to manufacture and export wood chips
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2008/200
・South Africa: Established a dealer of Suzuki four-wheel vehicles in 2008 and80604.html
commenced sales
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2011/201
・Namibia: Participated in a wind power generation project together with a Korean
10113.html
company in 2011
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2008/200
・Angola: Received an order to construct a cement plant in 2008
80807.html
・Ghana: Conducted a seawater desalination project together with a Spanish
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/releases/
company in 2012; Commenced commercial operation in 2015
20111115.html
・Egypt: Acquired interests for an oil producing field in 2006; Succeeded in
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2012/201
exploration of crude oil and gas in 2008
21029.html
・Gabon: Holds upstream interests for oil and gas
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2006/200
・Senegal: A subsidiary, Daiichibo, acquired fair trade certification for cotton and60831.html
commenced import in 2013.
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/news/2008/200
・Malawi: Provided loans to the Australian company Lynas (interests for rare earths)
81222.html
・Others: Sale of steel products (an affiliated company, Metal One)
http://www.sojitz.com/jp/divisions/energ
y/business.html
・Established locally incorporated companies in South Africa in 2000, in Kenya in
2012, and in Nigeria in 2013
・The company has locally incorporated companies in South Africa, Kenya andNigeria, and business bases in South Sudan, Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. It also hasmade capital contributions to eight automobile sales agents in South Africa, Angola,
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mauritius, Kenya, and Uganda. In addition to the
http://www.toyotacompany’s original network in 25 countries mainly in eastern and southern Africa, in tsusho.com/english/corporate/branch/af
2012, it acquired 100% ownership of CFAO, a major French trading company withrica.html
networks in 32 countries in western and central Africa.
http://www.toyota・South Africa: Support for production of auto parts (steel, car sheets, interior parts, tsusho.com/press/2012/12/20121225etc.), sale, leasing business, and sale of automobiles of Toyota Motor and Subaru
4139.html(acquired 100% ownership of a sales company of Subaru in South Africa in 2010)
http://www.toyota・Kenya: CKD production and sale of automobiles and motorbikes, sale of usedtsusho.com/press/2011/11/20111107cars, and leasing at Toyota Kenya; Received an order to construct a geothermal
3892.html
power generation plant together with Toshiba and Hyundai Engineering in 2011;
http://www.toyotaConducted a survey for constructing an oil pipeline between Kenya and Southtsusho.com/press/2012/08/20120815Sudan; Concluded a comprehensive memorandum for realizing a national policy with 4049.html
the government of Kenya in 2012; Received an order for container conveying cranes http://www.toyotaat Mombasa Port in Kenya with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding in 2013; Received tsusho.com/press_past/2008/20080929
an order for a seawater desalination project in 2013; Received an order to construct _1.html
a fertilizer plant in 2014
・Egypt: Sale of thermal power plants and related equipment since the 2000s;
Commenced a consigned offshore gas field excavation project in 2008; made capital
contribution to a CKD plant of Toyota Motor

40

No.

Industry

Generaltrading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

Area

Company nameSouthern

246 Marubeni

Angola,South
Africa,Mozambique

Eastern

Ethiopia,
Kenya

Western

CentralGhana, CôEquatorial
te d’Ivoire,
GuineaNigeria

Northern

Algeria,
Morocco,
Libya

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeA

Business details

Reference

・The company has locally incorporated companies in Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire, andbusiness bases in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana,
Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco.
・South Africa: Made capital contribution to a steel sheet manufacturer of the SAFALGroup in 2008; Presentation and receipt of orders for IT system and solutions;
Export of metal resources (copper, cobalt, and ferro-chromium); Export of chips
・Angola: Received three orders for rehabilitation of textile plants in 2010; Received
an order to construct a sugar and bioethanol plant in 2012
・Mozambique: Efforts for commencing methanol business・Ethiopia: Delivered digging materials and equipment to the Aluto Langano
Geothermal Power Plant; Export of automobiles and construction machinery; Importof coffee beans
・Kenya: Export of automobiles, agricultural machinery, and chemicals to Kenya;
Export of cement matrix to Kenya and neighboring countries
・Nigeria: Made capital contribution to a steel sheet processing company of the
SAFAL Group in 2010; EPC projects and rehabilitation projects for power plants;
Export of automobiles (Suzuki) and chemicals
・Ghana: Sale of automobiles of Toyota Motor and Hino Motors at wholly owned
Toyota Ghana; Export of synthetic resins and foodstuffs to Ghana; Commenced afeasibility study for methanol business in 2010; Made investments in the long-term
charter business of FPSO
・Equatorial Guinea: Invested in LNG business, together with Marathon Oil (a UScompany), GE Petro (an Equatorial Guinean company), and Mitsui & Co., in 2005
・Tunisia: Sithe Asia, of which the company acquired 100% ownership of in 2003,
conducts an IPP power generation project.
・Others: Agreed with New Hope Liuhe (a Chinese company) in 2012 to develop a
joint venture for feed and livestock integration in Africa

http://www.marubeni.com/company/net
work/
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/news/2012/1
20330a.html
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/news/2010/1
01125.html
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/news/2012/1
20207.html
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/news/2005/0
50606.html
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/news/2010/1
01004.html
http://www.marubeni.co.jp/dbps_data/_
material_/maruco_jp/120117d.pdf

41

No.

Industry

Generaltrading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

Area

Company nameSouthern

247 MITSUISouth
Africa,Namibia,
Mozambique

Eastern

Kenya,
RwandaWestern

Ghana

CentralGabon,
Equatorial
GuineaNorthern

Algeria,Egypt,
MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeA

Business details
・The company has business bases in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Ghana,
Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco.
・South Africa: The company received, together with Toshiba, an order for
manufacturing electric locomotives to transport resources in 2006. Two power
generation companies in which the company invests through its subsidiaryinvestment vehicle in the United Kingdom entered into a long-term power purchaseagreement with Eskom in 2013.
・Mozambique: The company participated in an oil and natural gas exploration
project with Anadarko, a US company. The company acquired oil and gas
exploration interests in 2008, discovered a gas field in 2012 and is scheduled tocommence production in 2018. In 2014, the company acquired 15% of the shares ofthe exploration company of the Moatize coal mine, for which a subsidiary of Vale, aBrazilian major resource company, retains a 95% interest.
・Ghana: The company acquired oil and gas exploration interests in 2008. The
company received an order for expanding a gas fired power plant with E&C (aKorean power company) in 2012.
・Kenya: Power generation business and export of pipelines, polyurethane, andagricultural chemicals, etc.
・Morocco: In 2011, the company received an order for a coal fired power plant with
Daewoo Engineering & Construction. In 2014, the company invested in a coal fired
power generation project using ultra-supercritical power generation technology.
・Egypt: Received an order to construct solar and gas power generation equipment,
and received, together with GS Construction (a Korean company), an order for light
oil refining equipment for a refinery in 2007
・Equatorial Guinea: Made investments in LNG business・Angola: Concluded a contract for the construction of LNG vessels and long-term
charters in 2007.
・Namibia: Acquired oil and natural gas exploration interests in 2006
・In 2011, the company purchased Portek (a Singaporean company) through TOB,
and acquired 100% ownership of Gabon Port Management (a Gabonese company),
MAGERW (a Rwandan customs service company), and Bejaia Mediterranean
Terminals (an Algerian company).

Reference

http://www.mitsui.com/jp/en/index.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
5/1212610_6498.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
1/1205833_6494.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
3/1205693_6496.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/200
8/1206079_6491.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
4/1205643_6497.html
http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
4/1205623_6497.html

42

No.

Industry

Generaltrading
21
firm
(Sogo
Shosh
a)

Southern

248 Mitsubishi

249 ITOCHU Automobile
Specialized
middle22-sizedtradingfirm

Area

Company name

250 OHMI INDUSTRIES

Angola,South
Africa,Mozambique

Eastern

Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
MauritiusWestern

CentralNigeria, Côte d’
Ivoire,SenegalGabon

Northern

Algeria,
Morocco,TunisiaSouth
AfricaUganda,Kenya

Nigeria

251 KANEMATSU

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeA

Business details
・The company has business bases in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. In
2015, the company obtained 20% of the shares of Olam, an agricultural trading
company.
・South Africa: The company acquired HERNIC Ferrochrome, a major stainlessmaterial company based in South Africa in 2002. The company invests in MELCO
Elevator and Freewheel.
・Angola: Invests in Angola Japan Oil Co., Ltd.
・Mozambique: Together with the Government of Mozambique, BHP Billiton andSouth Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation, the company established
MOZAL, an aluminum refiner. The company invested 25% of the capital of MOZAL.
・Ethiopia: Export of tires and chemicals etc., and import of coffee and sesami.
・Kenya: Export of heavy electrical machinery, elevators and motor vehicles, andimport of coffee beans.
・Mauritius: Invested in a canned tuna manufacturer.
・Nigeria: Started a joint venture with Notore Chemical Industries, owner of urea
fertilizer plants.
・Cote d’Ivoire: The company purchased 20% of the oil and gas exploration interestsof Anadarko in 2014.
・Senegal: Export of chemical materials and import of fishery products.
・Gabon: Invests in MPDC, an oil exploration and development company.
・Egypt: In 2007, together with Kinki Sharyo and Toshiba, the company received anorder for train cars to be used for subway in Cairo. The company invested in anammonia manufacturing and sales project in 2006.
・Morocco: Export of vehicles of Mitsubishi Fuso and Mitsubishi Motors.
・Liberia: The company acquired a 10% participation interests in Block 10 in the oiland gas exploration area in 2011.
・Tunisia: The company participated in a gas exploration area in 2006.

Reference

http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/ab
out/global/
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/ir/li
brary/magazine/pdf/no03_p01.pdf
http://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/123LQWHVC0YHQ0X01.html
http://www.africanews.jp/news_y4mCxiHlc.html
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/csr/
sustainability/sustainability06.html
http://www.jgc.co.jp/jp/01newsinfo/2006/release/20060512.html
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/pr/
archive/2006/files/0000002515_file1.pdfhttp://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/pr/
archive/2011/html/0000013149.html
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/pr/
archive/2010/html/0000010920.html
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/ja/pr/
archive/2014/html/0000025606.html

B・Import and export of parts and equipment of automobiles and parts of construction
http://www.itac.co.jp/en/index.html
machinery

B・Export of steel materials

http://www.ohmiinds.co.jp/en/index.html

B・Import of steel materials and import of octopus, etc.

http://www.kanematsu.co.jp/en/

43

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

253 Kenlyn

Specialized
middle22-sizedtradingfirm

255

Northern

NigeriaSouth
AfricaSUN MACHINERYAND TRADING

Nigeria

256 Jasa Corporation

Angola257 TAICHI HOLDINGSSouth
Africa258 Taiyo Bussan

South
AfricaKenya,
Sudan

259 Tokyo Boeki

260 Nishizawa

CentralGhana,
Nigeria

252 KAWASHO FOODS254 KOWA

Western

NigeriaEgypt,
Morocco,
Libya

Nigeria

Mozambiq
Tanzaniaue

Ghana,
Nigeria

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Manufacture and export of canned food・Since the 1950s, the company has sold canned mackerel to Nigeria and Ghana.
・Established a representative office in Ghana in 2010

http://www.kawashofoods.co.jp/english/
http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/rep
ort/20120702/234010/?P=1

A・Importing and exporting of natural resources, agricultural productions

http://www.hotfrog.jp/%E4%BC%81%E
6%A5%AD/KENLYN%E6%A0%AA%E
5%BC%8F%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%B
E%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%
AA%E3%83%B3

B・Sale of medical equipment and optical equipment

http://www.kowa.co.jp/eng/index.htm

B・Export of oil refining equipment and industrial materials and equipment

http://www.sunmachinery.co.jp/map/ma
p.htmlhttp://www.sunmachinery.co.jp/profile/p
rofile.html

B・Export business in South AfricaA・Trading company specialized in the Middle East and Africa
・Deals with home electric appliances, precision instruments, automobiles, andmedicine, etc.
・The company has a locally incorporated company in Nigeria

http://www.anabas.co.jp/en/
http://www.anabas.co.jp/business/world
wide/

B

・Export of acoustic equipment, etc.

http://www.taiyobussan.jp/english/profile.htmlB

・Export of foods and drinks to Nigeria. The company developed Samurai Curry.

http://www.tokyoboeki.com/

A・Middle-sized trading company
・Imports and exports, from textiles to steel, various machinery and plants, andindustrial materials and equipment
・The company has locally incorporated companies in Nigeria and Tanzania, andrepresentative offices in Mozambique and Ghana.

http://www.nishizawaltd.com/english/index.html
http://www.nishizawaltd.com/kaigai/index.html

44

No.

Industry

Specialized
middle22-sizedtradingfirm

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

NIPPON STEEL &261
SUMIKIN BUSSAN

MozambiqueC

http://www.nssb.nssmc.com/en/index.ht
・In 2010, together with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, the company invested in a ml
raw material coal exploration project in Mozambique and acquired mining rights.
http://www.nssb.nssmc.com/news/ns/p
df/20101027.pdf

262 Fuji Bussan

South
AfricaA・The company has a representative office in South Africa. It supplies bait for tuna
to Japanese fishing boats stopping by Cape Town.

http://www.fuji-bussan.com/
http://www.fujibussan.com/corporation/office/B・Import of coffee beans

http://www.shizuokacci.or.jp/assets/files/Sing201210/Sing1
0-P23.pdf

B・Import and sale of preserved flowers made by Kenya Vermont

http://www.mo-no.co.jp/brand#vmt

A・Import and export of resources, such as ferrochromium, and resource-relatedmaterials and equipment
・The company has a branch office in South Africa.
http://www.hanwa.co.jp/hanwa_e/index.
・In 2002, the company acquired exclusive distribution rights for the products of S. html
A. Chrome and commenced the import of ferrochromium.
http://www.hanwa.co.jp/nenrin/report_n
・In 2005, the company provided capital contribution to Samancor, the world’s
ews/no272/news_1.html
second largest ferrochromium company, and acquired rights for exclusive distributionof its products in Japan.

A・The company has a locally incorporated company in Tanzania. In addition to
Tanzania, the company runs business in southern and western Africa.

www.shinryotrading.com/

South
AfricaA・Import of South African wine

http://www.capewine.jp/%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE%E7%B4%B9%E4%BB
%8B

South
AfricaA・Founded by a Japanese national in South Africa

South
AfricaA・Founded by a Japanese national in South Africa

263 Mikatajuku

Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Rwanda264 MONO International

Kenya

265 Hanwa

266

268

South
AfricaEast Africa Sales
Promotion limited

267 GSA Japan Limited

SANZO Import &Export269 Tecmed Africa

BurundiTanzania

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

45

No.

Industry

Specialized
middle22-sizedtradingfirm

Distributer of
23
used
cars

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

270 Uchida Agency

Western

CentralNorthern

Nigeria

271 World TradingSouth
Africa272 SBT CO

Zambia,Zimbabwe,
Swaziland,
Botswana,
Uganda,Namibia,
Kenya,
South
Tanzania
Africa,Malawi,MozambiqueNigeria,
Benin

DRC

Kenya,
Tanzania

273 Enhance-Auto

274 CardealPage Co

Zambia275 Carview

Zambia276 Kaiho Sangyo

Angola,Zimbabwe,
Zambia,Kenya,
Namibia, Tanzania,
South
Mauritius
Africa,Botswana

Kenya

Ghana,
Guinea,Nigeria,
Benin

Cameroon, Egypt,
Congo
MoroccoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Founded by a Japanese national in Nigeria
・Sale of generators

A・Founded by a Japanese national in South Africa

A・The company runs a website selling used cars and provides support for export.
The company has business bases in various locations.

A・The company runs a website selling used cars and provides support for export. In
2014, the company established locally incorporated companies in Kenya andhttp://www.enhance-auto.jp/
Tanzania.

B

・The company runs a website selling used cars and provides support for export.
Concluded a partnership with Zambia Post.

http://www.cardealpage.co.jp/

A・Operation of a global used car sales website
・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in 2012
・Started an alliance with Zambian Postal Services Corporation in 2014

http://www.tradecarview.com/sw/

B・Export of used car parts

http://kaiho.co.jp/
http://kaihosangyo.jp/torikumi/kra.html

http://companies.globalmarket.com/uch
ida-agency-limited-280473.html

http://www.sbtjapan.co.jp/
http://www.sbtjapan.com/sbt_kenya

46

No.

IndustrySouthern
277

23

Distributer of
used
cars

Area

Company nameEco Tec Kaneshiro
Sangyou

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

MozambiqueOperation typeA

Business details

・Sale of used cars

Reference
http://maputo.blog.fc2.com/blogcategory-0.html

278 Kotobuki Trading

Zambia,Zimbabwe,
South
Africa,MalawiA

279 Shima

MozambiqueA・Export of used cars
・Established a locally incorporated company in Mozambique in 2013

http://www.shimacorp.com/company/information_news/2
013/08/8231.html
http://www.3wm.co.jp/english/index.htm
lhttp://www.3wm.co.jp/uganda.html

・Export of used cars
・The company has a warehouse in Durban, South Africa
・The company has sales channels in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

http://www.kotobuki.co.za/

280 3WM

UgandaA・Agency for the export of used cars. Opened a branch in Uganda in 2012.

281 Takashi Enterprise

UgandaA・Export of used cars
・Established a locally incorporated company in UgandaA・Export of used cars. Runs a rent-a-car business in South Africa.

TanzaniaA

http://www.beforward.jp/
・Export of used cars through the Internet. The company established a
http://www.beforward.jp/company/
representative office in Tanzania and in Zambia in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The
http://corporate.beforward.jp/company/
company has a sales route in various locations.
outline/Kenya

B・Export of used cars

TanzaniaA・Export of used cars
・Established a local office in Tanzania in 2012

A・Export of used cars
・Established a local office in Tanzania in 2007

A・Export of used cars

282 trust-power.com

South
Africa283 BE FORWARD

Zambia284 World Navi

285

Worldwide andCompany286

AUTORECENTERPRISE

287 DIA Zambia

ZambiaTanzania

DRC

ZambiaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.worldnavi.co.jp/

http://www.autorec.co.jp/

47

No.

Industry

Distributer of
23
used
cars

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

288 ICHII LDA MAPUTO

MozambiqueA・Export of used cars
・Established a locally incorporated company in Mozambique in 1995

289 ODAOIL ZAMBIA

ZambiaA・Export of used carsA・Export of used cars. Has a locally incorporated company in Tanzania.

291 VT HoldingsSouth
AfricaA・Export of used cars and new automobile dealer business in South Africa. The
company invested in an automobile dealer owned by Sojitz in 2011.

292 AsplundSouth
AfricaB・Import and sale of organic cosmetics made in South Africa

B・Import and sale of shea butter from Burkina Faso

http://www.a-danse.jp/

B・Import, retail and wholesale of African sundries

http://www.african-sq.co.jp/

B・Import and sale of ZAMBIKES, expensive bicycles with frames made of Zambianbamboohttp://www.zambikes.jp/

B・Import and sale of sundries from Tanzania and other African countries
・Sewing and sale of clothes using African textiles

http://umeday.com/home/

290 Samurai Japan

Tanzania

BurkinaFaso

293 A DANSE

Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Burkina
Tanzania,
Faso, Mali
Madagascar

294 African Square
Distributer ofspecifi24c
products

Western

295 Alliance Factory

296 Umeda YoHinTen

Tunisia,
MoroccoZambiaTanzania

http://ichii.is-mine.net/index.html

http://www.vtholdings.co.jp/eng/index.html
http://response.jp/article/2011/03/22/15
3590.html

297 Service au Senegal

SenegalA・Sale of shea butter produced in Senegal.

298 SHARE TRADE

Ghana

B

・Import of paradise seeds, an indigenous spice of Ghana

http://www.sharetrade.jp/

A・Import, retail, and wholesale of Tanzanian coffee, tea, paintings, and cloth
・The company has a representative office in Tanzania

http://www.africafe.jp/dearshop.html#ga
iyou

299 BARAKA

Tanzania

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

48

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

300 FEEL PEACE Project301 Maruyoshi NisshindoWestern

24

Distributer of
used
cars

307

B

・Sale of business cards using Zambian banana stalks

http://www.nissindou.co.jp/
http://www.nissindou.co.jp/eco/opc/

A・Manufacture, Import and sale of Morocco sundries

http://www.morocco-style.com/

B・Import of Kenyan agriculture products and sundries

http://www.wise-kenya.com/index.html

B・Production and import of banana paper

http://oneplanetcafe.com/

B・Import and sale of sundries, clothes and shea butter from Ghana

http://dasvia.jp/index.html

MoroccoB・Import and sale of sundries made in Morocco

http://www.dearmorocco.com/

MoroccoB・Import and sale of sundries made in Morocco

ZambiaGhana

DENTOU ZAKKA
MOROCCOReference
http://www.feelpeace.jp/feelpeace/FEE
LPEACE_Project_English.pdf
http://www.feelpeace.jp/

Kenya

306 Dear Morocco

Business details
・Manufacture and sale in Japan of skin care products using shea butter made in
Benin
・Joint project by NEXT, Studio Graphico, and Foundation IFE, for which Benin
Ambassador Zomahoun serves as the representative

Morocco305 Dasvia

Operation typeB

ZambiaWISE KENYAINTERNATIONAL

304 One Planet Café

Northern

Benin

302 Morocco Style

303

Central308 Flamingo

Tanzania

B

・Production of custom-made clothing using Tanzanian fabric

http://xprs.imcreator.com/free/africa_ja
pan/flamingo

309 HASUNA

RwandaB

・Production and sale of jewelries made with ox horns produced in Rwanda.

http://www.hasuna.co.jp/english/

310 RICCI EVERYDAY

UgandaB

・Production and sale of bags using Ugandan fabric

http://www.riccieveryday.com/en/

311 Ruise B

Kenya,
RwandaB・Import and sale of baskets and bags made by women in Rwanda and Kenya

http://www.ruiseb.jp/index.html

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

49

No.

Industry

Distributer of
24
used
cars

Area

Company nameSouthern
312 Rupurara Moon

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Zimbabwe

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

B・Import and sale of beaded accessories and small articles made in Zimbabwe

http://rupurara-moon.jugemcart.com/

313 VIVIA JAPAN

Ghana

B

・Sale of natural skin care products using moringa and shea butter produced in
Ghana

http://viviajapan.com/

314 IDEMITSU TANKER

LiberiaA・Ocean transportation of crude oil and oil products, etc.
・The company established a locally incorporated company in Liberia in 1987 inorder to utilize the incentive for flag of convenience (tax reduction, etc.).

http://www.idemitsu.com/
http://www.idemitsu.co.jp/content/1005
11449.pdf

A・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2009
・The company has the Asia-Africa route (Shanghai-Durban-Cape Town) and theSouth Africa-West Africa route.

http://www.kline.co.jp/en/
http://www.kline.co.jp/news/detail/1187
080_1454.html
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNAS
DD0705S_S0A720C1MM8000/

Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire,
NigeriaA・International sea transportation of crude oil, coal, iron ore, cargoes, etc. In addition
to the Malaysia/Singapore – Durban – Mozambique route, it also started services on
the Asia-Africa route from Shanghai to Cape Town in 2013. The company
http://www.mol.co.jp/en/index.html
established a locally incorporated company in Nigeria and Ghana in 2005. It alsoestablished a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1999. The local officein Cote d’Ivoire was established in 2010.

LiberiaA・Ocean transportation of aluminum materials, cereals, and coal, etc.
・The company established a locally incorporated company in Liberia in 1978 inorder to utilize the incentive for flag of convenience (tax reduction, etc.).

http://www.tamaiship.co.jp/about/organi
zation.html

A・Sea transportation services. The company established a locally incorporated
company in South Africa in 2005. It provides regular long-term freight for thetransportation of LNG from Angola to the US.

http://lnews.jp/backnumber/2005/08/18
617.html
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNAS
DD0705S_S0A720C1MM8000/

B

・Marine transportation services
・Transports steel products, vehicles, construction machinery, and facility
equipment, etc. from Japan to eastern and southern Africa

http://www.nykhinode.com/liner/africa/index.html

・Marine transportation services

http://www.azumaship.co.jp/english/ind
ex.html
http://www.azumaship.co.jp/service/logi
stics_oversea.html

315

Kawasaki Kisen
Kaisha316 Mitsui O.S.K. LinesSouth
AfricaSouth
AfricaMarineand air
25 transp
ortation317 Tamai Steamship

318 NYK Line

Angola,South
Africa319 NYK-Hinode Line

320 Azuma ShippingNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

B

50

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

321

AFREX Transportation
Commerce

Western

CentralNorthern

Mauritania

322 Eagle Shipping JapanLand
transportatio26
n andlogistics

Eastern

Ethiopia

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Transportation business, including long-distance bus and cargo transportation inWest Africa, sale of car components and materials, and export of marine products. It http://afrexsarl.afrexinc.com/index.html
has a locally incorporated company in Mauritania.

B・Japanese sole agency for Ethiopia Shipping Lines

http://www.eagleshipjapan.com/profile.
html

https://www.kwe.co.jp/en/

http://www.nipponexpress.com/globallocator/index.html

Kintetsu World
323
ExpressSouth
AfricaA・Sells and deals with imported and exported goods
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 1996
・Has nine business bases and six warehouses in four cities
・Received an order for logistics services for supplying materials for constructing asolar power plant in 2012

324 NIPPON EXPRESSSouth
AfricaA・Established a representative office in South Africa in 1996.

HANKYU HANSHIN325
EXPRESS

South
AfricaA

http://www.hh・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2014. The company provides express.com/jp/en/company/
sea and inland transportation services in Southeast Africa under a partnership with
http://www.hhlocal forwarders.
express.com/jp/site/news/d2aksc00000
04qxy-att/release_20140401-1.pdf

C・The company received an order for strengthening road maintenance capacity outof consulting services in a yen loan project on road development around Mombasa
Port in KenyaA

http://www.yusen・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2013logistics.com/en/japan/
・Commenced the temperature controlled sea freight consolidation service to Africa,
http://www.jp.yusentaking the role of distributing European pharmaceuticals in South Africa and southernlogistics.com/news/2013/news_201311
Africa19.htmlA・Rwandan customs service company
http://www.magerwa.com/
・The company’s parent company, Port International (a Singaporean company), was http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/201
purchased by Mitsui in 2011.
1/1195303_1822.html

326 Hanshin Expressway

327 Yusen Logistics

328 MAGERWA

Kenya

South
AfricaRwandaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.hanshinexp.co.jp/topics2/1359940166F.pdf

51

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

FinanciToyota Financialal332
Services
service

333 Mizuho Bank

334

335

Northern

Business details

Reference・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 1997
・Conducts leasing business and car leasing business

http://www.orix.co.jp/grp/en/
http://www.orix.co.jp/grp/en/company/gr
oup/overseas.html

Egypt

A

・The company has agents in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, and Egypt.
・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2014

http://www.sjnk.co.jp/english/company/
network/europe_africa_mideast/A・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 2008
・Commenced life insurance and damage insurance business in 2010
・Established a representative office in South Africa in 2015 and concluded abusiness tie-up with Hollard.
・Provides insurance services for Japanese-affiliated companies in 21 Africancountries

http://www.tokiomarinenichido.co.jp/en/
http://www.tokiomarinehd.com/release_
topics/release/2014/sd214a000000a9n
p-att/20150225.pdf

SouthAfricaA・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in 2000

http://www.tfsc.jp/overseas/index.html

SouthAfricaA・Concluded a business tie-up with Standard Bank in South Africa in 2012
・Opened a satellite office in South Africa in 2010

http://www.mizuhobank.com/index.html
http://www.mizuhocbk.co.jp/company/release/pdf/20120223.pdf

B

http://www.ms-ins.com/english/
・Provides non-life insurance services to Japanese corporations tied up with AXA, a
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNAS
French company, in 16 African countries including South Africa and Mozambique
GC0400K_U4A300C1EE8000/

A

・The company established a representative office in Egypt in 1975. The company
concluded a business partnership agreement with a South African bank, Abusa, in2010, which was later expanded to cover collaboration in Mozambique in 2014.
・Its European affiliate received a $100-million Risk Participation Agreement toexpand the trade finance operations in 2015.

South
Africa,Kenya
Mozambique

Egypt

Mitsui Sumitomo
Insurance

Simotomo Mitsui
Banking

Operation typeA

Tokyo Marine&
South
331
Nichido Fire Insurance Africa

27

CentralEgypt

329 ORIX

Sompo Japan330
Nipponkoa

Western

Mozambique, South
AfricaEgyptNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

http://www.smbc.co.jp/global/
http://www.smbc.co.jp/news/html/j2006
28/j200628_01.html
http://www.smbc.co.jp/news/html/j2008
23/j200823_01.html

52

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

336

The Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UFJ

Financialservice

338 JCB

CentralNorthern

Egypt,
Morocco

Mauritius

Ghana,
Cape
Verde,
Gabon,
Gambia,Cameroon,
Guinea,Congo,
GuineaDRC, São
Bissau, CôZimbabwe, Uganda,
Tomé andte d’Ivoire,
Zambia,Kenya,
Príncipe,
SierraMalawi,Tanzania,
Equatorial
Leone,
Mozambiq SouthSuda
Guinea,Senegal,uen, Rwanda
CentralTogo,
AfricanNigeria,
Republic,
Niger,
Chad,
Benin,
BurundiBurkinaFaso, Mali,
Liberia

339 SBI Holdings

Africa BusinessBusine 340
Partners
ss
28
consult
ing
341 East Africa Sales

WesternSouth
Africa337 AAIC Japan

27

Eastern

RwandaSouth
AfricaEthiopia,
Kenya

Côte d’Ivoire,Nigeria

Tanzania

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Has a representative office in Egypt. Concluded a memorandum with CIB, an
http://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/
Egyptian company, in 2011. In 1996, the company restarted the representative office http://www.bk.mufg.jp/news/news2013/
in South Africa, which was upgraded to a branch office in 2013. In February 2013, it pdf/news0225.pdf
concluded a memorandum for business partnership with Trade and Investment
http://www.bk.mufg.jp/news/news2011/
South Africa. The company also concluded a memorandum for comprehensive
pdf/news0607.pdf
business collaboration with First Bank (South Africa) in 2014. In 2011, the company http://www.bk.mufg.jp/news/news2011/concluded a memorandum with BMCE (Morocco).
pdf/news1124.pdf

A・Develops projects for social contribution fund for Africa which is wholly owned by
Toyota Tsusho.

http://www.toyotatsusho.com/press/detail/140107_00247
3.htmlB

・The company concluded a partnership agreement with Equity Bank (Kenya) andEcobank (Togo) in 2012 and 2015 respectively. The JCB card is available in 33
African countries.

http://www.jcbcorporate.com/english/index.html
http://www.jcbcorporate.com/news/seq_1276.html
http://www.jcbcorporate.com/news/seq_3836.html

A・Made investments in Rwanda in an investment company of Abu Dhabi and Kigali
Bank (a Rwandan commercial bank)

http://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/
http://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/2011/09
09_4512.html

A・Supports Japanese companies in developing business in Africa. It has a locallyincorporated company in Kenya. It has business bases in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South
Africa, and Cote d’Ivoire (planned).

http://abp.co.jp/service_e.html

A・Consulting services on the sale of used cars

http://africanmarket1.blog120.fc2.com/

53

No.

IndustrySouthern

342

TOSHIBA Technical
Service

343

Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu

344 Tokyo Consulting Firm

345

Business
28
consult
ing

Area

Company name

CentralNorthernSouth
AfricaNOMURA ResearchInstitute

EthiopiaMizuho Information &347
Research InstituteRwandaPricewaterhouse
Coopers

349 MINDECO

350

WesternSouth
Africa346 MYCLIMET

348

EasternSouth
AfricaMitsubishi ResearchInstitute

Mitsubishi UFJ
351 Research andConsultingNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

A・Business to dispatch technical advisors for thermal power plants, hydraulicturbines, hydraulic-turbine power generation, and traffic systems
・The company has a representative office in South Africa.
・Has received orders in South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, and Botswana.

http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/ttsi/

A・Conducts research and analysis related to Africa. Has offices in various locations
across Africa.

http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en.html

A・Has a locally incorporated company in South Africa.

http://www.kuno-cpa.co.jp/tcf/japan/C・A general think tank/consulting company under Nomura Holdings. It also conducts
http://www.nri.com/global/
research and analysis related to Africa.

C・Carbon offset provider and greenhouse gas reduction consulting company. A
contractor of a JICA project.

http://jp.myclimate.org/en.html

B・Established the Mizuho Global Agricultural Innovation to support the global
expansion of Japanese agricultural and fishery industries. It conducts research anddemonstrative tests concerning transfer of Japanese technologies, such as thoseconcerning cultivation and agricultural machinery.

http://www.mizuhoir.co.jp/english/index.html
http://www.mizuhoir.co.jp/company/release/2015/globalagri0901.html

A・Conducts research and analysis related to Africa. Has offices in various locations
across Africa.

http://www.pwc.com/jp/en.html

A・Consulting services on resource development

http://www.mindeco.co.jp/

C・General think tank and consulting company of the Mitsubishi Group・Also conducts research and analysis related to Africa

http://www.mri.co.jp/

Chttp://www.murc.jp/english
・General think tank and consulting company of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group http://www.murc.jp/thinktank/economy/・Also conducts research and analysis related to Africa
analysis/research/er_120521

54

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern352

AflicaLink
ENTERPRISE

Eastern

354

Zambia & JapaneseBusiness Partnership

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference・Support of business in Zambia

A・Support of business in central Africa and import and export business

http://www.eagrupo.com/

Kenya

A

・Kenyan environmental consulting company
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.eta.co.ke/

RwandaA・Rwandan environmental consulting company
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://solarcookerjapan.sunnyday.jp/?page_id=238

South
AfricaA

・Conducts research and analysis related to Africa. Has offices in various locations
across Africa

http://www.kpmg.com/jp/en/Pages/defa
ult.aspx

ZambiaA・Support of business in Zambia

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.
・Mainly in French-speaking countries in western Africa

http://sites.ehcjp.com/ehcjphome/homeC・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.icnetlimited.com/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://imgpartners.com/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc
・Mainly in French-speaking countries in western Africa

http://www.ingerosec.com/en/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.e-squareinc.com/english/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.oriconsul.co.jp/english/index.php

Equatorial
Guinea355 i-Wind Consulting

357

NorthernA

Environmental
Technology Africa

356 KPMG JAPANCentralZambia353 E&A Group

Business
28
consulting

Western

358 Earth and Human

359 IC Net
Consulting
service 360 IMG
focusin29 g oninterna 361 INGEROSEC
tionaldevelopment
362 E-SQUARE

363 Oriental ConsultantsNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

55

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

364

Kaihatsu Management
Consulting

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.kmcinc.co.jp/english/

365

Katahira Engineers
InternationalC・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://kei-globe.com/

366 IDeAC・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.idea-jpn.co.jp/

367 Kokusai Kogyo

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.kkc.co.jp/english/

Consul 368 Sanyu Consultants
tingservicefocusin
System Science369
29 g onConsultantsinternationaldevelo 370 ESS
pment
371 Chodai

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://sanyu.tcp.jp/english/index.html

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

https://www.ssc-tokyo.co.jp/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.ess-jpn.co.jp/english/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.chodai.co.jp/en/

372 Nissaku

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

www.nissaku.co.jp/

A・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.
・The company has representative offices in Botswana, Mozambique and Kenya

http://www.nkoei.co.jp/english/index.html

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.jics.or.jp/jics_htmle/index.php

A・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.
・The company has representative offices in Zambia and Senegal.

http://www.jat.co.jp/english/

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.pasco.co.jp/eng/

373 Nippon Koei

Botswana,
Mozambiq Kenyaue

374 JICS

375 Japan Techno

ZambiaSenegal

376 PascoNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

56

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

377 PADECO

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.padeco.jp/v2/

378 SwingC・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.swing-w.com/eng/index.html

Consul 379 CTII
ting
servicefocusin29 g on
380 Yachiyo Engineeringinternationaldevelo
UNICO
pment 381
INTERNATIONAL

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.
・Conducts business in such fields as water resources, disaster prevention, traffic,
and environment in Malawi, Kenya, South Sudan, Morocco, etc.

http://www.ctie.co.jp/english/index.html
http://www.ctii.co.jp/project_area/projec
t_area_africa.html

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.
・Conducts business in such fields as road, traffic, and infrastructure in South
Africa, Sudan, Liberia, etc.

http://www.yachiyo-eng.co.jp/e/
http://www.yachiyo-eng.co.jp/e/ourcompany/network.html

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.unico-intl.co.jp/english/

382 Devex

C・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://devex.co.jp/english/

383 TEC InternationalC・Receives orders for various consultation surveys as ODA projects, etc.

http://www.teci.jp/
http://www.teci.jp/project/index.html#

A・Tanzanian travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.kilitopandsafaris.com/

A・The company opened branch offices in Egypt in 2009 and in Kenya in 2012.

http://www.no1-travel.com/
http://www.his-j.com/ovsbranch/A・Ethiopian travel agency

http://www.elmitourethiopia.com/

A・South African travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.guguafrica.com/

384

Active Kilit Op And
Safaris385 HIS30

Travel 386 ELMI Tours
agencyandhotels 387 gugu africa tours

Tanzania

South
Africa

Kenya

Egypt

Ethiopia
South
Africa388 Global Service

Ethiopia

B・General agency of Ethiopian Airlines in Japan

http://www.gsa.co.jp/index.html

389 SUN WORLD TOURS

Kenya

B

・Agency of Kenya Airways in Japan

http://www.sunworldtours.co.jp/

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

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No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

390 DOSOSHIN

South
AfricaKenya

NITTSU PELICAN
391
Travel Net

South
AfricaUganda,Tanzania,
MadagascarWestern

CentralNorthern

Egypt,
Tunisia

Operation typeBusiness details

ReferenceA・Travel agency specialized in Africa
・The company has local offices in South Africa and Kenya.

http://www.dososhin.com/
http://www.dososhin.com/company/ove
rsea/

B

・Operation of a website for booking hotel rooms, tours, and flight tickets
・Joined by African travel agencies

http://www.pelican-travel.net/

392 POLEPOLE SAFARI

TanzaniaA・Tanzanian travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.polepole-f.com/

393

MPATA
INTERNATIONAL

Kenya

A

・Travel agency of MPATA Safari Club (a Kenyan resort lodge)

http://www.mpata.com/index.htm

394

Yoshiken Travel and
Yours

A

・Ghanaian travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.yoshikentravelgh.com/

Kenya

A

・Kenyan travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://afrospace.info/

396 DODOWORLD

Kenya

A

・Kenyan travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.dodoworld.com/en/home.htm

397 Heisei Safaris

Tanzania

A・A travel company in Tanzania established by a Japanese national

398 JATA TOURS

TanzaniaA・Tanzanian travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://jatatours.intafrica.com/

Tanzania

A・A travel company in Tanzania established by a Japanese national

http://nakama.main.jp/paradisebeachbu
ngalows/category/en/about-en

A・South African travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://miraitours.com/

A・South African travel agency
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.planetafricatours.co.za/

Ghana

Travelagency 395 AfroSpace30
andhotels399

Paradise Beach
Bungalows

400 Mirai Tours

401 Planet Africa Tours

MoroccoSouth
AfricaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

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No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

Egypt

A

・The company has branch offices in Cairo and Johannesburg. The branch office
was moved from Nairobi to Johannesburg in 2013.

http://www.asahi.com/shimbun/?ref=com_footer

Egypt

A・Branch offices in Cairo and Nairobi

http://www.kyodo.co.jp/corp/aboutus/

404 JIJI PRESS

Egypt

A

・Branch offices in Cairo

http://www.jiji.com/c_profile/about_us.ht
ml

405 DENTSU

South
AfricaAlgeria,Egypt,
Tunisia,
MoroccoA・Established a joint venture with Drive, an advertising company conducting
http://www.dentsu.com/
business across all Arab countries. Drive established a representative office in
http://www.dentsu.co.jp/news/release/2
Tanzania in 2014. Dentsu Aegis Network made investments in Crimson Room
014/0805-003795.html(South Africa) and Media Fuse (Nigeria) in 2014. In 2015, it concluded an acquisition
http://www.dentsu.co.jp/news/release/2
agreement with Adams Media Ghana (Ghana) and Premier Media Company
015/0803-004112.html(Ghana).

406 MAINICHI Shimbun

South
AfricaA・Branch office in Johannesburg

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/

407 YOMIURI Shimbun

South
AfricaA・Branch office in Johannesburg

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

402

The Asahi Shimbun
CompanySouth
Africa403 Kyodo News

Media
and
adverti31
singbusiness

Eastern

Kenya

Tanzania

Ghana,
Nigeria

Nippon Television
Network

Egypt

A・Branch office in Cairo

http://www.ntv.co.jp/english/

409 FUJI MEDIA Holdings

Egypt

A

・Branch office in Cairo

http://www.fujimediahd.co.jp/en/index.ht
ml

Egypt

A

・Has a branch in Cairo. Opened a branch in South Africa in 2014.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/corporateinfo/

Egypt

A

・Branch office in Cairo

http://www.tbsholdings.co.jp/

A・Purchased a South African subsidiary of Seton, a US manufacturer of leather
products for automobiles

http://www.advantagepartners.com/en/i
ndex.html

C・Conducts technical cooperation projects and development assistance projects(including ODA) in the field of spatial information

http://www.ajiko.co.jp/en/

A・Medical wastes treatment business. Has a locally incorporated company in Kenya. http://shirai-g.co.jp/kenya.html

408

410 NHK

South
Africa411 TBS Holdings

412 Advantage Partners
Othermiscellaneou
32
413 Asia Air Surveysservices
414 SHIRAI GROUP

South
AfricaMalawiSenegalKenya

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

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No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Operation typeBusiness details

Reference

415 Japan Africa

South
AfricaA・Coordinator in South Africa
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.japanafrica.com/about_e.php416 Nipponex

South
AfricaA・Coordinator in South Africa and conducts export management
・Founded by a Japanese national

http://www.nipponex.co.za/_/Home_En
glish.html

B・Consultation business on marine transport and logistics

http://www.marinotokyo.co.jp/index.html

A・Business of game machines and operation of a casino in South Africa

http://go.aruzegaming.com/

C・Established jointly by Sojitsu and Sumitomo Corporation
・Participated in an LNG Japan Project in Nigeria

http://www.lngjapan.com/english/index.
html

A・Development of B2B applications for local companies and support for Japanesecompanies concerning business expansion to Africa.

http://afri-inc.com/

A・Homestay business, development of guidebooks, and support for import/export
and overseas business expansion

http://africa-shokai.jimdo.com/

Kenya

A

・Runs retail stores and provides marketing support in Kenya

http://www.africascan.com/english/

UgandaA

・Production of chocolate and roasting of coffee beans

http://www.aragaki.co.ug/index.jp.html

Kenya

A

・Manufacturing and sale of dried mango in Kenya

http://www.kenyafruitssolutions.com/jp/

Tanzania

A・Runs power generation business using Jatropha oil. Has a locally incorporated
company in Tanzania.

http://www.japanjatropha.com/main.html

A・Manufacturing and sale of ice

http://kaigaikigyou.com/africa/

Other
miscellaneou
32
417 MARINO LOGISTICS
s
services
Universal
418
Entertainment

419

Ghana

South
AfricaLNG JAPAN
CORPORATION

420 Afri-inc

Nigeria

Uganda421 Africa Shokai
Localbusine 422 AfricaScan
sses
started33
byJapan 423 Aragaki Chocolate
ese
entreprKenya Fruits Solutions
eneurs424
Company

425 Japan Jatropha

426 B&F

SenegalGuineaNote) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others

60

No.

Industry

Area

Company nameSouthern
427

Ground Power
Company

428

MOGA・BROOK (Cal- SouthMo)
AfricaLocal 429 NIAKA KA
businesses
started33
by
430 Narite Tradings
Japan
ese
entrepreneurs 431 Seed Africa

Eastern

Western

CentralNorthern

Kenya

SenegalZambiaOperation typeBusiness details

A

・Cultivation and sale of soy beans, etc. in Kenya

A・Operates a nail shop in South Africa
・Founded by a Japanese nationalA・Coordinator in Senegal and conducts export management
・Founded by a Japanese nationalA・Import of parts for personal computers and repair services in Zambia
・Founded by a Japanese national

Reference

http://www.mogabrook.com/abroad/abo
ut.html

Tanzania

A・Commenced rental business of tractors in Tanzania
・The company has a locally incorporated company in Tanzania

http://www.seed-africa.com/

432

WBPF
CONSULTANTS

UgandaA

・Provides training programs for Ugandan companies

www.wbpftraining.com

433

WORKTECHTCORPORATION

Tanzania

A・A lighting design company. Has a locally incorporated company in Tanzania.

http://www.worktecht.co.jp/

Note) A: Locally-incorporated companies, Representative offices and Branch offices B: Only trading C:Others61