Interview
President Katsuya Nakanishi says the Japanese trading house can draw on deep expertise to model a wide range of scenarios
The prompts and questions humans feed to AI will become more important, Nakanishi said. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
YUI SATO
August 26, 2026 14:44 JST
TOKYO — Seven years after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Mitsubishi Corporation, the leading Japanese trading house is now targeting a record net profit of 1.2 trillion yen ($7.5 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2028.
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