In fiscal 2012 (October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012), Siemens’ sales to customers in Japan amounted to around EUR 1.45 billion and new orders totaled more than EUR 1.43 billion. Siemens currently has about 2,180 employees in Japan.

Siemens' contact with Japan dates back to 1861. That year, an official delegation from Prussia visited Japan and presented the Edo government with a pointer telegraph invented by company founder Werner von Siemens. Having opened its first office in Tokyo in 1887, Siemens celebrated its 125th anniversary in Japan in 2012, and relocated its Tokyo headquarters from the city’s Gotanda to its Osaki district – a move that will create a new work environment and strengthen collaboration within the organization.

Since the Fukushima disaster, Japan has changed its energy policy. In July 2012, a feed-in tariff system was launched and renewable energy investments are expected to increase. In this connection, Siemens secured an order to start supplying 23 wind turbines for a wind power project in the northern part of Japan in 2013. The turbines will have a total capacity of 69 megawatts.