Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (in Japanese, 三菱総合研究所 or 三菱総研 for short), often called MRI, was established at the centennial anniversary of Japan's Mitsubishi Group in 1970, invested by the various companies of the group (currently capitalized at 5,302,000,000 yen), and is a Think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

, representative of Japan. It is the consulting firm of Mitsubishi Group and now employs about 800 people.

General

Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., often called MRI, was established at the centennial anniversary of Japan's Mitsubishi Group in 1970, invested by the various companies of the group (currently capitalized at 5,302,000,000 yen), and is a Think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

, representative of Japan.

It is the consulting firm of Mitsubishi Group and now employs about 800 people. It has its branches in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

 and Nagoya, and keeps an office in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

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Subsidiaries

MRI owns subsidiaries, such as Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS

Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS

Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS , often simply called DCS, for Diamond Computer Service, its former name, is the system integrator of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , jointly owned by Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and MUFG...

, often called DCS (Diamond Computer Service), the IT support arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), which is jointly owned by MRI (60 percent) and MUFG (40 percent). Separately, MUFG has its own Think tank, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting (MURC) with a staff of 700 people, a conglomeration of former Mitsubishi Bank's Diamond Business Consulting, Bank of Tokyo's Tokyo Research International, Sanwa Bank's Sanwa Research Institute and Tokai Bank's Tokai Research Institute.

Competition

Its competitors are:

• Nomura Research Institute
  Nomura Research Institute
  Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. , often called NRI, was established in 1965, now employs about 4,700 people, and is Japan's largest Consulting and IT consulting firm....
  
   of Nomura Group
  Nomura Group
  The formerly Nomura zaibatsu is a company headquartered in Chuo, Tokyo.Nomura is one of the major industrial and financial conglomerate groupings of Japan. Osaka Nomura bank was founded by Tokushichi Nomura II in 1919 after many successful business ventures; it was established on the Mitsui...
  
  
• Mizuho Research Institute of Mizuho Financial Group
  Mizuho Financial Group
  , abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan...
  
  
• Japan Research Institute of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
• Boston Consulting Group
  Boston Consulting Group
  The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with offices in 42 countries. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. It is one of only three companies to appear in the top 15 of Fortunes "Best Companies to Work For" report for...
  
  
• Arthur D. Little
  Arthur D. Little
  Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted...
  
  

etc.

See also

• Mitsubishi Group
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
• Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting
• Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS
  Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS
  Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS , often simply called DCS, for Diamond Computer Service, its former name, is the system integrator of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , jointly owned by Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and MUFG...
  
  
• Think tank
  Think tank
  A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
  
  
• Management consulting
  Management consulting
  Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....
  
  
• IT consulting

External links

• MRI home page
• Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting home page