Its commitment to fulfilling its responsibilities as a global corporate citizen has also achieved positive recognition. Last August, DKB and Fuji, along with The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited, announced an agreement to consolidate the three banks and establish a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings, Inc. in Autumn 2000, with JPY141 trillion in assets, making it the largest bank in the world. The immense volume of business reflects the vast scope of its expertise in commodity trading, information, logistics, financing, investment and retailing. Business activities in goods and services range from natural resource development to processing, wholesaling, and retailing. To ensure the speed and flexibility indispensable in an era of rapid changes, operations are executed by seven division companies that operate as autonomous units.
Major business is international trade, including exports and imports, and offshore and domestic.
In playing a key global role in the exchange of goods, various services may include providing raw, semi finished and finished materials, financial services, marketing and logistics. Outside of its many offices in Japan, it has 145 in 73 other countries. Marubeni Corporation, established in 1858, is one of the Japan's leading general trading houses, with operations that encompass international trade of virtually every kind of goods, materials and commodities and investment activities such as retail marketing, natural resource development and infrastructure projects everywhere in the world. K' Line's Red Containers move large volumes of goods throughout the globe.