It is hard to build a leasing business in a country where people don’t like leasing: but that is exactly what Thai ORIX Leasing, ORIX Group’s subsidiary in Thailand, has done – and very successfully too.
ORIX Aviation is one of the world’s leading aircraft leasing companies In the skies above you there are between 8,000 and 9,000 commercial jet aircraft flying through the air every day. They carry more than 6 million people daily -- that’s…
For an asset manager with a long history and established traditions, Robeco has a very modern mission: not only to produce above-market financial returns but also to help tackle global issues.
Here are three interesting facts about Japan: First, it has one of the largest number of publicly listed companies in the world; at over 3,700 in 2020 only India, the US, China and Canada have more, according to World Bank figures. Second,…
Windmills are a familiar sight in La Mancha, the rural region of Spain that lies south-east of Madrid. Cervantes, after all, had Don Quixote tilting at them here in his eponymous seventeenth-century epic. Even so, the giant wind turbines b…
Cows give us milk, meat and…methane. Traditionally a mainstay of every pastoral landscape, more and more people these days consider cattle an environmental hazard due to the ‘natural gas’ they emit directly into the atmosphere. Methane, af…
These days it the norm for companies to actively engage in social issues. Indeed, the value of a company is increasingly linked to how it can contribute to sustainability in its truest sense.
Waste has a significant impact on the global environment. The majority of waste processing facilities in Japan incinerate waste; however, as the focus on sustainability grows even more around the world, a new trend of reusing combustible w…
Creating world-changing innovative technologies is not the prerogative of large corporations. It does not depend on a company’s scale—in Japan, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups often play a role.
It is not only large corporations that create world-changing innovative technologies. Around Japan there are many SMEs and start-ups that are pushing the boundaries of innovation, and which ORIX supports through its corporate financial ser…
Creating innovative technologies that transform the world are not the sole prerogative of large corporations. In Japan, there are numerous cases of these technologies being developed by small and medium corporations and start-up companies.
The recent advances in information technology have driven major progress in technologies such as AI and IoT, and the world is changing at an unprecedented pace. The accelerating speed of change in the business environment is causing busine…
The adoption of renewable energy including solar, geothermal, wind and biomass is increasing around the world as a part of efforts to create a greener and more sustainable world. ORIX anticipated this growth and now boasts a total net owne…
In recent years, natural disasters which used to be viewed as "once in a few decades" events, have been striking various regions of Japan every year. Add this to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is clear that we are facing a wider variety of …
The technology behind drones, machines that fly unmanned via remote operation or automated control, has progressed rapidly in recent years. They are now used in a variety of applications, including the delivery of goods to remote islands a…
How will 3D printers change the world of manufacturing and our lives in general? These devices can create 3D objects from data in short periods of time. We sat down to talk with 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys Japan Co., Ltd., a business…
With the arrival of robots, 3D printers and drones, the possibilities for businesses and our lives as whole are continuing to expand. However, the reality of the situation is that not everyone can immediately make full use of the latest eq…
Looking at the photos below, you might not think the terrace with a gorgeous view and a spacious café space could be part of a logistics facility…
