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Top 25 Biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan
The Japan biopharmaceutical companies directory lists 194 companies developing and commercializing medicines based on biological products. It includes 18,280 business contacts and 5,367 email addresses for organizations in the category, with Tokyo as the single most-represented city among the companies on the list. The directory was updated in September 2026.
Biopharmaceutical companies discover, develop, manufacture, or commercialize medicines made from biological sources, including proteins, antibodies, vaccines, and cell or gene therapies. This list covers companies whose primary business includes the research, development, manufacturing, or commercialization of biopharmaceutical products. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 6,426 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astellas is a global life sciences company committed to turning innovative science into VALUE for patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,491 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo is an innovative global healthcare company contributing to the sustainable development of society that discovers, develops, and delivers new standards of care to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 816 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chugai Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, headquartered in Tokyo, is a research-based pharmaceutical company with world-class drug discovery capabilities, including proprietary antibody…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eisai’s Corporate Concept is “to give first thought to patients and people in the daily living domain, and to increase the benefits that health care provides.” Under this Concept…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 418 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Philosophy The purpose of the Shionogi Group's corporate activities is, as expressed in the opening of its Company Policy, to "supply the best possible medicine to protect the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ono Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 191 contacts → | ||||
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| 8 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This is the official company page of Sumitomo Pharma Co, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 143 contacts → | ||||
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| 10 | 109 contacts → | ||||
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| 11 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in September 2007, Spiber is a biotech venture company based in Yamagata, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In keeping with the corporate philosophy “Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide” and the Otsuka values of Ryukan-godo (by sweat we recognize the way)…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PPD2015CROPPDPPD1985202112Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.“Thermo Fisher”4735 Awards -Top Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Services Provider in APAC 2023 (Awarded by Pharma Tech…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 47 contacts → | ||||
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| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
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| 16 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As one of core operating companies of the Sumitomo Corporation Group, we contribute to enriching lives and the world through the improvement of the health and well-being by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MOLCURE was founded in 2013 with a mission to build the best platform for biologics discovery in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us Asahi Kasei Bioprocess, a division of Asahi Kasei Life Science, supplies innovative bioprocessing tools and services that enhance the safety, manufacturing efficiency…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ARCALIS is a Japan based global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) dedicated to advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and therapeutics across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fuji Chemical Industries is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Toyama, Japan, founded in 1946 and proudly celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
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| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This company is a spinout from Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Kyoto University, focusing on the development of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology-based regenerative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HekaBio is a platform for in-licensing, development and commercialization of world-leading biopharma and MedTech assets in Japan and the APAC region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TOMY Digital Biology is a spun off company from TOMY Seiko in 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “30GPCRNxWave™ 350” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biopharmaceutical companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biopharmaceutical companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biopharmaceutical companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biopharmaceutical companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Japan, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Japan, over 194 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biopharmaceutical companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Japan whose own description of what they do matches “biopharmaceutical companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biopharmaceutical companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biopharmaceutical companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Japan are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,367 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
How many biopharmaceutical companies are in the directory?
The directory contains 194 biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan.
Where are most of the biopharmaceutical companies located?
Tokyo is the single most-represented city among the biopharmaceutical companies on the list.
What contact data is available for biopharmaceutical companies?
The directory includes 18,280 business contacts and 5,367 email addresses for the listed biopharmaceutical companies.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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