Apart from cars, IT, especially specialist chips, carbon fibre, aerospace, renewable energy, medical equipment, satellite launches, and cameras to name but a few.
Japan’s manufacturing is extremely important to integrated chip manufacturing.
For example:
[80% of the etchers used to make LCD panels (TEL)Japanese market share in capacitors used in electronic devices is 80%.In four of the steps in manufacturing computer chips, Japanese companies are indispensable.60% of the containers used to hold silicone wafers in the process of making computer chips come from one company (Covalent).