Yazaki

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title: "Yazaki" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["automotive-companies-based-in-tokyo", "manufacturing-companies-based-in-tokyo", "auto-parts-suppliers-of-japan", "manufacturing-companies-established-in-1929", "japanese-companies-established-in-1929", "japanese-brands", "multinational-companies-headquartered-in-japan"] description: "Japanese automotive parts manufacturer" topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazaki" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese automotive parts manufacturer ::

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Field	Value
name	Yazaki Corporation
logo	[[File:Yazaki company logo.svg
native_name	矢崎総業株式会社
native_name_lang	ja
image	矢崎総業 本社.jpg
image_size	250px
image_caption	Yazaki Corporation's headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
type	Private KK
industry	Automotive
founder	Sadami Yazaki
founded
hq_location_city	Tokyo
hq_location_country	Japan
area_served	Worldwide
key_people	Yasuhiko Yazaki
(Chairman)
Riku Yazaki
(President)
products
revenue	JPY 1,926.6 billion (FY 2017)
num_employees	306,118 people (as of June 2018)
footnotes	{{cite web
language	ja}}/ar.html
website
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Yazaki Corporation is a global automotive parts supplier with a focus on wire harnesses, instruments and components such as connectors and terminals. The company's origin and headquarters are in Japan, but in 2011, roughly 90% of its employees were outside the home country.

Yazaki ranks among the largest worldwide automotive suppliers, ranked 13th by the industry journal Automotive News in 2015.

The company's product lineup includes electrical cables, meter and auto instruments, gas equipment, air-conditioning, and solar-powered systems. As a first tier supplier, Yazaki sells chiefly to auto manufacturers, and, to a lesser extent, electric power, gas, and general construction companies. Yazaki is among the top 100 companies receiving the most US patents.

The Yazaki Group's corporate headquarters are located in the Mita-Kokusai Building (三田国際ビル Mita Kokusai Biru) in Mita, in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its main R&D center and its World Headquarters are located in the Y-city compound in Susono, Shizuoka prefecture. The company has its European headquarters in Cologne, Germany and the North American headquarters in Canton, Michigan, United States of America.

History and expansion

Starting as a small Japanese family business selling wiring harnesses for automobiles in 1941, Yazaki Group in 2011 employs more than 192,000 people worldwide, with about 90% of them (171,000) outside Japan. After World War II, Yazaki focused on automotive wire harness production and grew rapidly. Overseas growth increased strongly between 1974 and the 1990s. There were external and internal reasons for this increase. The main external reason was the general trend of Japanese automotive companies to move production abroad to avoid trade sanctions in this period. This strategy change was accompanied by a change of leadership within Yazaki, when heir Yasuhiko Yazaki succeeded the founder Sadami Yazaki in 1974, aged only 33. Between 1974 and 1990, overseas sales grew roughly 30 times (from about ¥4 Billion in 1974 to ¥116 Billion), while overseas employees increased tenfold (from 2,922 to 33,703).

Yazaki India privet limited is the official supplier of Mahindra BE 6 and XE 9e, AR based Heads-Up-Display (HUD).

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Controversies

Price fixing

On January 30, 2012, the US Justice Department announced after two years of investigation that it had discovered part of a massive price fixing scheme in which Denso and Yazaki played a significant role. The conspiracy, which fixed prices and allocated components to such car manufacturers as Toyota and Honda, extended from Michigan to Japan, where it was also under investigation. Denso agreed to pay a fine of $78 million. Yazaki agreed to pay a fine of $470 million, and four Yazaki executives were sentenced to prison and assessed a $20,000 fine each.

References

References

1. "Annual Report". Yazaki Corporation.
2. "Company Overview". [[Bloomberg L.P.]].
3. (May 23, 2017). "Top 100 global OEM parts suppliers". [[Crain Communications]].
4. "Company Profiles". [[Hoover's.
5. "Global Network - Japan". Yazaki Corporation.
6. (2011). "Yazaki Corporation Social & Environmental Report 2011". Yazaki corporation.
7. (1990). "The Machine that Changed the World". [[Harper Perennial]].
8. Ichijo, Kazuo. (2007). "The Yazaki Corporation Article written for the IMD – Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch Distinguished Family Business Award 2007". Yazaki Corporation.
9. "Opinion: How the Bajaj Chetak became the unexpected EV sales king".
10. (February 1, 2012). "U.S. fines Japanese auto parts suppliers $470 million". [[Japan Times]].
11. (January 30, 2012). "Two auto parts suppliers fined $548M for price fixing". [[USA Today]].

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