A ranking of the largest companies in Asia in 1999, based on sales, per the AsiaWeek 1000 RANK, are below. You'll note that 18 of the top 20 are Japanese multinationals. For more information please go to http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/features/asiaweek1000/index.html

1. Mitsui

2. Itochu

3. Mitsubishi

4. Toyota

5. Marubeni

6. Sumitomo

7. NTT

8. Nissho Iwai

9. Hitachi

10. Matsushita

11. Sony

12. Nissan

13. Honda

14. Toshiba

15. Fujitsu

16. Tokyo Electric Power

17. NEC

18. China Petrochemical

19. China National Petrochemical

20. Tomen

 

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