Abstract

The bold decision to acquire US Steel for 2 trillion yen was an extension of this transformation!

Five years after posting its largest ever net loss of 430 billion yen, Nippon Steel Corporation has quickly revived and expanded its front lines.
Behind the scenes, there have been bloody structural reforms and a transformation to a corporate culture that executes what needs to be done in the shortest possible time.
The company is no longer the ”slow-moving” company that it once was.
This nonfiction book describes the “reincarnation” of Nippon Steel Corporation, one of the leading companies in the heavy industry.
Japan's traditional large companies can change so much!

Author’s Information

Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Nikkei Business, Uesaka was born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture in 1976. He graduated from Ritsumeikan University in 2001 with a degree in industrial sociology and joined Nikkei Inc. He initially worked in the Social Affairs Department before joining the Industry Department (now the Business Reporting Unit) in 2008. Primarily involved in reporting on corporations, including machinery, materials, energy, and trading companies, Since 2005, he has been working at the desk of Nikkei Keizai Shimbun Inc.since 2017, and has held his current position since 20092021 where. H he has is once again primarily been in charge of reporting on the manufacturing industry, including machinery and materials. His column, titled "Yoshifumi Uesaka's Monozukuri Kingdom," is regularly featured in the Nikkei Business Daily.