Japan Business Federation

Keidanren Kaikan, the head office of Japan Business Federation
Formation	May 2002
Type	Economic organization
Legal status	Organization
Purpose	Promote the development of the Japanese economy
Headquarters	Tokyo
Coordinates	35°41′19.2″N139°45′48.6″E / 35.688667°N 139.763500°E /35.688667; 139.763500
Region served	Japan
Official language	Japanese
Chairman	Yoshinobu Tsutsui
Website	www.keidanren.or.jp/en/
Formerly called	Keidanren, Japan Federation of Employers' Associations

TheJapan Business Federation (日本経済団体連合会,Nippon Keizai-dantai Rengōkai) is aneconomic organization founded in May 2002 by amalgamation ofKeidanren (経済団体連合会, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, established 1946; name sometimes used alone as abbreviation for whole organization) and Nikkeiren (日本経営者団体連盟, Japan Federation of Employers' Associations, established 1948), with Nikkeiren being absorbed into Keidanren.^[1][2]

The federation is commonly referred to as "Keidanren". Its 1,601 members consist of 1,281 companies, 129 industrial associations, and 47 regional economic organizations (as of June 15, 2010).^[3]

For most of the post-war period, Keidanren has been the voice ofbig business in Japan and is generally considered the most conservative of the country's three majorprivate sector business associations. The other two organizations are theJapan Chamber of Commerce and Industry [ja] (日本商工会議所) and theJapan Association of Corporate Executives (経済同友会).

According to the organization's official website, the mission of the Keidanren is to accelerate growth of Japan's and the world's economy, and to strengthen the corporations to create additional value to transform the Japanese economy into one that is sustainable and driven by the private sector by encouraging the ideas of individuals and local communities.

The current chairman is Yoshinobu Tsutsui ofNippon Life. He has been chairman since May 2025.

Keidanren supported theNoda government's efforts to raise Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10%. It had previously called for the consumption tax to be raised even higher, to 15%.^[4]

After the March 11 nuclear disaster and subsequent shutdown of all the nuclear plants in Japan, Keidanren called for their restart.^[5] This view was not shared by all business leaders, withRakuten presidentHiroshi Mikitani leaving the federation partly over this issue.Masayoshi Son ofSoftbank publicly objected to the focus on restarting the nuclear plants, but didn't leave the federation over it.^[6]

Keidanren and its predecessor bodies had a long history of providing substantial political donations to theLiberal Democratic Party. In the lead-up to the 2009 general election theDemocratic Party of Japan made a pledge to ban political donations from companies and organizations. After the DPJ victory in that election, Keidanren stopped making political donations.^[7][8]

In 2002, when Keidanren took on its current form, two-thirds of its 18 vice-chairmen were from manufacturing companies. As of July 2012, only 8 of the 18 are filled by executives of manufacturers.^[8]

Below are the lists of presidents, Chair, Vice-presidents and Vice-Chairs of Japan Business Federation (as of July 1, 2021).^[9]

• Chamber of commerce
• List of employer associations
• Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE), a similar European business association

• Daimon, Sayuri (June 16, 2009)."The all-powerful voice of corporate Japan".The Japan Times. Archived fromthe original on January 8, 2019.
• https://www.keidanren.or.jp/en/
• http://www.keidanren-usa.org/Archived December 5, 2006, at theWayback Machine

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