What is "mitsui"

is one of the largest keiretsu in Japan and one of the largest corporate groups in the world.

The major companies of the group include Mitsui & Co. ( general trading company), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sapporo Breweries, Toray Industries, Mitsui Chemicals, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Mitsui Fudosan.

Mitsui is the name of a large Japanese conglomerate, Mitsui Group, it is also a Japanese surname.

Other uses include:

Companies:

• Mitsui & Co., a Japanese general trading company, part of the Mitsui Group
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, subsidiary thereof
• Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group
• Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, a shipping company
• Mitsui Chemicals
• Mitsui Fudosan, property firm
• Mitsui Rail Capital (MRCE), a railway leasing company
• Mitsui Oil Exploration Co.
• Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
• Kinkisharyo-Mitsui, public transit vehicle manufacturer
• Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Japanese financial holding company
  • The Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. subsidiary thereof
• Mitsui Babcock, engineering (boilers) company, now part of Doosan Babcock

People:

• Mitsui (surname)
• Mitsui family, article about the family of industrialist and merchants

Other:

• Mitsui Golden Glove Award
• Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
• Mitsui Hisashi, character in the "Slam Dunk" anime manga series
• Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, skyscraper
• Shinjuku Mitsui Building, skyscraper
• Mitsui Memorial Museum
• Mitsui Norin Co, manufacturer of Polyphenon tea extracts
• Mitsui Miike Coal Mine, former coal mine
• Mitsui 56-series, a large series of ships built by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
• Mitsui Kosan KK, coke and water gas plant, built in association with German company Lurgi AG

Mitsui (written: 三井 lit. "three wells") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aika Mitsui, member of the J-pop group Morning Musume
• Hideki Mitsui, Japanese screenwriter
• Takaharu Mitsui, Japanese philatelist
• Mitsui Takatoshi, founder of the Mitsui conglomerate
• Wakio Mitsui, Japanese politician
• Yōko Mitsui (1936–2014), Japanese poet
• Yuri Mitsui, Japanese model and actress