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Corporation
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Changes for the Better
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Tokyo, Japan ( 1921 )
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Tokyo, Japan
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Tamotsu Nomakuchi , President & CEO
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97,661 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2005)
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3,410 billion Yen (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2005)
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Electronics
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Energy and electric systems, Electronic devices, Industrial automation systems, Home appliances, Information and communication systems
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Mitsubishi Electric Global
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() is a
Japanese company based in the Mitsubishi Denki Building in
Tokyo ,
Manufactures electric and architectural equipment. The Corporation was established on
15 January 1921 . One of its products is the
SCOPO . The Corporation claims (as cited in "References") to have achieved the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500 mm apart.
Mitsubishi Electric is also one of the top 5 manafacturers of Photovoltaics, competing with Sharp, Kyocera, BP, and Shell.
It is one of the
Mitsubishi Group core companies.
- The company makes Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
- Televisions
- --- The company's most notable product in the United States is the large screen CRT (rear projection) Television . Competitors in this market are Sony , Pioneer , Panasonic , JVC , Samsung (Akai), Daewoo , LG (Zenith), and Apex Digital .
- ---The company manufactured direct-view CRT televisions until 2001 . The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size.
- --- As of 2005, the company is focusing on DLP and LCD video projection systems.
- --- The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-storey Landmark Tower, Yokohama, from 1993 until 2005, when it was overtaken by Toshiba's elevator in the new Taipei 101 building in Taiwan.
- Achievements
- Book Site of former employee who wrote a book about working as a foreigner in the company.