Built by Mitsubishi Electric, it boasts a 59-foot-diameter, turtle-shell-shape antenna dubbed "Gamela, " after the Godzilla-slaying tortoise.
Mitsubishi Electric is bleeding red ink while cranking out everything from room fans to satellites.
Other large defense suppliers: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with 12% of defense work, and Mitsubishi Electric, with 7%.
Other top military contractors are Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with 12% of defense work, and Mitsubishi Electric, with 7%.
Mitsubishi Electric already sells more phones in Europe and China (16 million this year) than in Japan (7 million).
Those with below-average solvency ratios included household names such as Komatsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Mitsui, Toshiba, Sony and Fuji Photo.
Unlike Toshiba or Mitsubishi Electric, both financially far weaker firms, Hitachi has the money to do whatever it wants.
The Diamond Vision OLED, designed for indoor use, delivers seamless, vivid images using Mitsubishi Electric's newly developed video controlling technology.
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21
The product's OLED device, jointly developed between Mitsubishi Electric and Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, creates light by a process of electro-luminescence (EL).
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21
Its high technology is weak: Mitsubishi Electric, for example, recently announced that it intended to close much of its semiconductor business.
This, combined with a new digital camera developed for it by Mitsubishi Electric, will make it the most powerful ground-based optical telescope around.
Once in a business, Mitsubishi companies stay put (unless they lose money as fast as Mitsubishi Electric has managed to do in semiconductors).
Mitsubishi Electric, Emerson Electric, Flextronics and Tyco have all signed up.
It said police also raided the homes of the executives, Yoshiki Sugiura of Mitsubishi Electric's general affairs department and Takeshi Watabe of Toshiba's general affairs section.
Hitachi's total borrowings minus cash and short-term investments amount to only 21% of its shareholders' funds, compared with 127% at Toshiba and 180% at Mitsubishi Electric.
Consolidation is starting to emerge in December Sanyo Electric sold its mobile phone business to Kyocera, and just this week, Mitsubishi Electric said it was exiting the market.
The Japanese company is using General Electric engines in some of its latest equipment, even as Cat works with Mitsubishi Electric to power one of its forthcoming lines.
Mitsubishi Electric's Diamond Vision OLED will be showcased at the company's booth at CEATEC JAPAN 2010, scheduled to be held from October 5-9 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21
This does not square with experience at Mitsubishi Electric, the weakest of Japan's big three electrical groups, which is expecting to halve its loss on semiconductors this year compared with 1997.
Gordon took over the nearly bankrupt Kidder in 1931 and turned it into a minor powerhouse on Wall Street, serving as investment banker to such firms as Carnation, Walt Disney and Mitsubishi Electric.
Japanese police searched the head offices of Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba on Tuesday for evidence linked to a widening racketeering scandal that led to the arrest on Monday of two top executives, Kyodo news agency reported.
Continue on to Mobile and a Mitsubishi Electric plant is emerging from the red earth and, some time next year, will account for 6% of the world's supply of polycrystalline silicon for compact discs and microchips.
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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will launch "Diamond Vision OLED, " the world's first, large-scale display system in the 100-inch and above range that uses organic light emitting diode (OLED) as its light source.
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21
Japan has been on the fringes of the program since at least 1993, when Mitsubishi Heavy, Mitsubishi Electric, Mitsubishi Corp. (the three are independent), NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu participated in the bilateral Western Pacific Missile Defense Architecture Study.
At CEATEC JAPAN 2009, Mitsubishi Electric unveiled the world's first prototype model of a large-scale OLED display with a 155-inch screen, developed through utilizing the company's large-scale display technology accumulated from the development of Diamond Vision screens installed at numerous sports stadiums and other public facilities.
ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21
Carson says Boeing contracted out virtually all the hardware--the onboard antennas linking the plane to a satellite, which then feeds data back and forth with a terrestrial server, comes from Japan's Mitsubishi Electric, and the internal Wi-Fi gear is from Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
"By partnering with Roku, and developing a line of new Mitsubishi TVs that will support their new Roku Streaming Stick, we will be able to offer the best big screen TVs and the most powerful internet streaming device together, bringing web-based entertainment to a whole new level for our customers, " said James Chan, vice president of marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America (MEVSA), Inc.
Those looking to minimize their carbon footprints are able to choose among a growing number of part- and full-time electric vehicles like the new Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid and the Ford Focus Electric and Mitsubishi i.
Of the nine electric cars so far confirmed as qualifying for the subsidy scheme, the three that will be available for delivery in January are the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Smart fortwo electric drive and the Peugeot iOn.
The zippiness of mainstream electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi MieV was completely absent.
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