Official company name
Hitachi Corporation

Common company name
Hitachi

Company logo


Name when written in Japanese (normal)


Name when written in Japanese (traditional)


Name breakdown
 - "Hi" - Means "Sun," or "Day." This Kanji can also mean "Japan," depending o­n its usage.
 - "Tachi" - Means "stand up," or "establish."

Actual name origins
Hitachi is the name of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture. The company got its name from its location; Hitachi was established as a branch off of the Hitachi Mine.

Corporate History
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/about/corporate/history/index.html

Up next is a company whose real corporate identity isn't very well known. The parent company of Panasonic and the National brands (the latter o­nly in Japan), Matsushita Electric Industrail, is also the o­nly corporation in our feature to retain the name of its founder.