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Top AI employers in Japan

NEC leads Japanese AI with a Visibility score of 79.5 out of 100, 7.7 points ahead of Fujitsu. Sony is third. The list covers the 59 AI employers AI recommends to job seekers in Japan.

59 employers · scores out of 100 · Data updated:

  1. 1

    NEC

    #1 in Japanese AIEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for purpose, inclusion and leadership, among others. The AI employer AI recommends most in Japan.

    79.5
  2. 2

    Fujitsu

    Top 3#1 for AI Research#1 for Data ScienceEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for purpose, inclusion and leadership, among others.

    71.8
  3. 3

    Sony

    Top 3#1 for cultureEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for culture, innovation and career growth. No other Japanese AI employer is named for culture by every AI.

    61.5
  4. 4

    Hitachi

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for inclusion, leadership and innovation, among others.

    59.0
  5. 5

    Google

    #1 for Data Science#1 for Product Management#1 for Software EngineeringGlobal star

    Every AI recommends it for pay, work-life balance and the hiring process, among others.

    53.8
  6. 5

    Rakuten

    AI recommends it most for the hiring process, culture and leadership, among others. One AI does not mention it yet.

    53.8
  7. 7

    Microsoft

    #1 for Product Management#1 for Sales#1 for Software EngineeringGlobal star

    Every AI recommends it for pay, work-life balance and the hiring process, among others.

    51.3
  8. 8

    Amazon

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for pay, work-life balance and the hiring process, among others.

    43.6
  9. 8

    NTT

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for interviews.

    43.6
  10. 10

    SoftBank

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for leadership and innovation.

    35.9

Everyone else

11 to 27NTT Data, Toyota, Meta, NTT Research and 20 moreShow
  1. 11NTT Data28.2
  2. 11Toyota28.2
  3. 13Meta25.6
  4. 13NTT Research25.6
  5. 15LY Corp23.1
  6. 15NVIDIA23.1
  7. 15Toshiba23.1
  8. 18IBM20.5
  9. 19CyberAgent15.4
  10. 19LY Corporation15.4
  11. 19Panasonic15.4
  12. 22Riken12.8
  13. 23AWS10.3
  14. 23Honda10.3
  15. 25Google DeepMind7.7
  16. 25LINE Yahoo7.7
  17. 27ARM5.1
  18. 27Accenture5.1
  19. 27Apple5.1
  20. 27Cisco5.1
  21. 27FANUC5.1
  22. 27MUFG5.1
  23. 27Omron5.1
  24. 27OpenAI5.1
35Ant Group, Anthropic, Astellas, Deloitte and 21 moreShow
  1. 35Ant Group2.6
  2. 35Anthropic2.6
  3. 35Astellas2.6
  4. 35Deloitte2.6
  5. 35Dentsu2.6
  6. 35Mazda2.6
  7. 35Mitsubishi2.6
  8. 35Mizuho Financial Group2.6
  9. 35NTT Docomo2.6
  10. 35NTT East2.6
  11. 35NTT West2.6
  12. 35Nissan2.6
  13. 35Nokia2.6
  14. 35PlayStation2.6
  15. 35Recruit2.6
  16. 35Renesas2.6
  17. 35Ricoh2.6
  18. 35SMBC2.6
  19. 35Subaru2.6
  20. 35Sumitomo Electric2.6
  21. 35Sumitomo Mitsui2.6
  22. 35Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group2.6
  23. 35Tencent2.6
  24. 35Uber2.6
  25. 35Yahoo Japan2.6

Best for what candidates ask about

The Japanese AI employer AI recommends most when candidates ask about each topic.

By role

Who AI recommends to engineers is not who it recommends to salespeople. Each role has its own ranking.

About this ranking

This is the first measurement of this ranking, so there is no earlier order to compare it with yet.

What separates the top five from the rest is career growth and interviews: AI recommends the leaders for these far more often than the employers below them. The gap is smallest on the hiring process, where the rest of the list keeps closer to the leaders.

Across the 23 countries the index covers for AI, the leader here has the 9th highest score. Elsewhere the lead changes hands: in South Korea, AI recommends Naver first.

More than half of the 59 employers score 5.1 or less, while a place in the top ten takes a score of 35.9. The leader's 79.5 shows how far ahead the most recommended employers sit.

Most lists of the best AI companies to work for come from employee surveys or awards. This one tracks what AI tells job seekers, because many candidates now ask AI where to work before they open a careers page.

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Questions about this ranking

What are the top AI companies to work for in Japan?

Going by who AI recommends most to Japanese job seekers right now: NEC, Fujitsu, Sony, Hitachi and Google.

Which Japanese AI employer does AI recommend for culture?

Sony. No other Japanese AI employer is named by every AI when candidates ask about culture.

Which Japanese AI employer does AI recommend for job security?

Toyota. No other Japanese AI employer is named by every AI when candidates ask about job security.

Which Japanese AI employers does AI recommend for purpose?

NEC and Fujitsu are both named by every AI when candidates ask about purpose.

How does the Employer Visibility Index work?

We ask AI assistants the questions job seekers ask about employers, by industry, country and role. We record which employers they recommend and turn that into a Visibility score out of 100.

How often are rankings updated?

Rankings refresh with each new round of AI answers. Each page shows the date its data was updated, and the arrows next to each score show how an employer has moved since the previous measurement.

Do I need to be a PerceptionX customer to appear in the index?

No. Any employer AI recommends often enough appears automatically. Customers get the full picture behind their Visibility score and well beyond it: how positively AI describes them (Sentiment), the themes it links them with, the sources it relies on, custom reports by country and role, and clear steps to improve how candidates see them.