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Fuji Tekko Co. Ltd Hasegawa Hitachi Honda IHI Japan Automatic Transmission Co.. Ltd Kawasaki Maschinko Mitsubishi Nissan Nissei Industrial Nippon Gear Osaka Seisa Sumitomo Toyota Yanmar Diesel Source: Compiled by the staff of the .. International Trade Commission. About 9 percent of Japan' independent gear producers are small- to medium-sized firms, working as subcontractors to the automotive and machinery industries, especially the machine tool industry. 8 The major producers, including captive producers, are situated near the customers they support, and therefore are concentrated in and around Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Hiroshima. 8 Japanese industrial gear manufacturers sell about 3 percent of their gearing through large wholesalers, who in turn sell to subagents, who then sell to end users. Another 4 percent is sold directly to subagents, and the remaining 3 percent is sold directly to the end user by the manufacturer. Foreign investment in Japan' gear industry is minimal, although some foreign firms, such as Flender and SEW-Eurodrive of West Germany and Twin Disc of the United States, have recently invested in manufacturing facilities there. Japanese firms have technical tieups or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supply arrangements with number of leading .. and European producers. For example, 1-1 - produces gear 1,oxes for GE' turbo-prop engines, and Kawasaki is producing helicopter transmissions in joint venture with MBB of West Germany. By licensing production in aerospace products, commodity-type industrial gearing and marine gearing, Japanese producers utilize production and design technology and also generate revenues from these products. Overall & efforts can then be concentrated on other products or minimized. Industrial gear producers tend to sell in foreign markets through joint ventures, distributors, or through large Japanese trading compani