In fiscal 2011 (October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011), Siemens’ sales to customers in Japan amounted to EUR 1.26 billion and new orders totaled EUR 1.4 billion. Siemens currently has about 2,200 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. The company opened its first office in Japan in Tokyo in 1887. To mark its 125th anniversary of business operations in Japan in 2012, Siemens aims at further substantial growth.

Siemens was awarded a long-term service agreement, worth EUR 100 million, from one of Japan’s biggest power companies to maintain a combined cycle power plant. It is the largest service agreement for Siemens in Japan. Siemens also won an order to deliver a back-up power supply system for a nuclear power plant operated by one of Japan’s major power companies, as part of the company’s risk management following the earthquake.