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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.

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194Companies
18,280Contacts tracked
5,367Verified emails
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The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 194 biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to biopharmaceutical companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceChuo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202610001+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, 2026
2Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202610001+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, 2026
3Indirect evidenceChuo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20265,001-10,000816 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, 2026
4Indirect evidenceBunkyo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000494 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, 2026
5Indirect evidenceOsaka, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000418 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…”

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6Indirect evidenceOsaka, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000339 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ono Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7Indirect evidence港区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000191 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8Indirect evidence大阪市中央区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000184 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“This is the official company page of Sumitomo Pharma Co, Ltd.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9Indirect evidence新宿区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000143 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10Indirect evidence港区虎ノ門, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,000109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11Indirect evidenceTsuruoka, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 2026201-50084 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in September 2007, Spiber is a biotech venture company based in Yamagata, Japan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12Indirect evidenceChiyoda-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20073 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, 2026
13Indirect evidence中央区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,00057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PPD2015CROPPDPPD1985202112Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.“Thermo Fisher”4735 Awards -Top Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Services Provider in APAC 2023 (Awarded by Pharma Tech…”

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14Indirect evidence新宿区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,00047 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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15Indirect evidence大阪市北区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261,001-5,00036 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20029 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, 2026
17Indirect evidenceKawasaki, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5029 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, 2026
18Indirect evidenceChiyoda-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 2026501-1,00025 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, 2026
19Indirect evidenceMinamisouma Shi, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20024 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, 2026
20Indirect evidenceNakaniikawa-gun, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 2026201-50023 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, 2026
21Indirect evidence中央区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 2026201-50023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22Indirect evidenceFujisawa, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20021 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, 2026
23Indirect evidenceChuo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5020 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, 2026
24Indirect evidenceTaito-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TOMY Digital Biology is a spun off company from TOMY Seiko in 2001.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25Indirect evidence港区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 2026201-50019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“30GPCRNxWave™ 350”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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Biopharmaceutical companies based in Japan at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026
29.4%Verified-email coverage
94.2Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
17.0%Largest-city concentration · Tokyo
Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
51
11-50
47
51-200
30
201-500
19
501-1,000
8
1,001-5,000
27
5,001-10,000
3
10001+
7

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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About this data

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.