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Komatsu Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a global heavy industry manufacturer that produces and sells construction equipment, mining equipment, and industrial machinery. Komatsu is the second largest manufacturer of construction equipment in the world, behind Caterpillar. Komatsu has a U.S. affiliate, Komatsu American Corp. 

Iran-based Mehvar Machine Co., one of Komatsu's authorized distributors, participated in Iran's 14th international oil show in 2009 (Iran's 14th Oil Show, Exhibitors List). Mehvar Machine Co. sells Komatsu machinery and spare parts, and offers customer training, service, and repairs (Mehvar Machine Co. Website). According to this website, Komatsu products that Mehvar sells include hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, motor graders, crawler dozers, bulldozers, dump trucks, lift trucks, containers, and Komatsu accessories.

Komatsu's other authorized distributor in Iran, Behrad Tehran, mentions the use of its products in sensitive sectors, proclaiming on its website that "Our Process division offers engineering machinery and turn-key projects in almost all fields of industry, mainly oil & gas, petrochemical, polymer & plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverages, pulp & paper, cement, and industries related to processing" (Behrad Tehran Website). 

Komatu's Middle East subsidiary, Komatsu Middle East FZE, has an office in Tehran (Komatsu Company Info). 

In 2004, Komatsu made an agreement with Hepcoy, an Iranian industrial and mining company, to have Komatsu bulldozers produced in Iran. According to Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Takekezu Kawamura, Japanese companies had "invested more than $2 billion in Iranian oil and gas sectors" by 2004 ("Komatsu Bulldozers to be Produced in Iran"). 

The machinery that Komatsu makes available to Iran has a wide application in the oil and mining industries, both of which are key to the Iranian economy ("Iran's Economy," The Iranian Trade Association Inc, 2010). 

In the past decade, Komatsu has received $39.39 million dollars in U.S. federal contracts, 90 percent of which came from the Defense Department (USAspending.gov). 

Hitachi Zosen is a Japanese manufacturing and engineering corporation with product divisions including environmental systems and industrial plants, precision machinery, machinery and process equipment, steel structures and construction machinery, marine and disaster prevention systems. (Company website)

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Hitachi Zosen produces shield tunneling machines in its steel structures and construction machinery division: "We have delivered a number of shield tunneling machines to the United States, China, Korea, Republic of China, Singapore and Thailand including 4 machines for undersea tunnel across the Bosporus straits in Istanbul, Turkey" (Company website).

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A Hitachi Zosen subsidiary lists Iran as a main exporting country for spare parts. (Hitachi-Zosen Plant Techno-Service Corp)

“Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment and industrial goods primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia” (“Kawasaki Heavy Industries (7012:JP),” Bloomberg Business Week, 2010).

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“The Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group manufactures a vast array of products that demonstrate technological mastery of the land, sea, air and outer space. Its aerospace business offers various products ranging from aircraft to satellites, while the shipbuilding business provides LNG and LPG carriers, submarines and other vessels. Japan's Shinkansen trains and New York City's subway cars are just two examples of its rolling stock business' famed global offerings, just as gas turbines and biomass power plants headline the energy plant and facilities business. The Group also supplies many products that demonstrate its expertise in engineering, such as industrial plants, environmental protection facilities, industrial equipment, construction machinery and steel structures” (Company website).

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Kawasaki lists contact information for Iran distributor Pars Loaders Co. on its website (Company contacts page)

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Kawasaki lists an Iranian distibutor for its motorcycle division, Jaranho Industrial Co. (Company contacts page)

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Website of Kawasaki distributor Jaranho Industrial Co. (Iranian distributor website)

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Kawasaki has collaboration agreements arranged with two other TBM producers, SELI of Italy and Lovat of Canada, both of which sell TBMs in Iran.
•    Alliance with Lovat, Inc. ("BREAKTHOUGH ALLIANCE: LOVAT & KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES," Lovat Inc. News Release, April 12, 2006.)
•    Collaboration with SELI ("Collaboration for new TBM supplier," TunnelTalk, April 2010.)

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 Kawasaki has received $182,558,912 in federal funds from the U.S. government between 2000 and July 2010. (USASpending.gov)

Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd is a Japanese construction company involved in infrastructure and tunnel construction. (Company website)

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Kumagai machines were involved in the completed Koohrang and Cheshmeh Langan tunneling projects. (“Iranian TBMs continue steady march,” World Tunnelling, December 23, 2009)

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Kumagai has a history in Iran. Kumagai incorporated an Iranian subsidiary in the 1977, and around that time was contracted to build a water supply tunnel in Isfahan, Iran. (KUMAGAI GUMI COMPANY, LTD. Company History)

Marubeni Corporation is a trading company “involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshore trading. The Company's activities also extend to power projects and infrastructure, plants and industrial machinery, real estate development and construction, and finance, logistics and information industry. Additionally, Marubeni conducts business investment, development and management on a global level” (Company Profile).

Marubeni has “55 overseas branches & offices and 32 overseas corporate subsidiaries with 63 offices for a total of 118 offices in 71 countries/areas” (Company Profile).

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Marubeni lists contact information for its office in Tehran, Marubeni Iran Co., Ltd. (Company website, “MIDDLE EAST Our Company Marubeni Corporation”)

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Marubeni-Itochu Steel, a joint venture between Marubeni and Itochu, lists an office in Tehran on its website. (Marubeni-Itochu website)

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As of April 2010, Marubeni imports ten thousand barrels of crude oil per day from Iran. ("Iran’s Crude Oil Buyers in Europe, Asia," Reuters, April 18 2010)

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"Marubeni has formed a consortium with South Korea's largest rolling stock manufacturer, Rotem Company (Hyundai Motor Group), to win an order worth about 110 million euro (about 15 billion yen) for 120 Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) cars from Irankhdro Rail Industries Company (IRICO), and signed the contract on November 1."

"Under this contract, the design and production of the rolling stock and the transfer of technology to IRICO will be carried out by Rotem Company, while, as consortium partner, Marubeni will take charge of the commercial task & functions , including accounting & legal support, local procurement back-up and finance & payment facilitation."

"Marubeni has 40 years experience in Iran, particularly with the Islamic Republic of Iran Railway , in areas such as the supply of signal systems and the delivery of diesel locomotives, and is held in high esteem by the Iranian counterparts."

"The DMUs to be delivered under this contract are intended for the use by the Tehran Suburban Railway by Raja Passenger Company (Passenger Trains Company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railway ) and comprise 24 complete cars, 24 cars for on-site assembly and 72 cars for on-site production. The transfer of technology to IRICO is also included in the scope of work."

"IRICO is a company set up by Iran's largest car maker, Irankhodro, to enter into railcar production business, which is currently burgeoning in Iran against a backdrop of fast population increase in urban areas, and this contract marks IRICO's first project."

"As the future demand for rail vehicles for suburban rapid passenger transportation and urban rail transit looks firm and steady in Iran, Marubeni plans to expand its business for urban and suburban passenger rail vehicles by lining-up various type of rail vehicles on offer and co-operating Iranian customers and partners in the field of technology transfer and local production" ("Series of Large Orders Won in Railroad Projects for Iran," Marubeni News Release, Nov 4, 2004).

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In 2004, Marubeni began dealings with a major Iranian petrochemical company: "Mitsubishi Corp. and two other Japanese trading companies signed initial agreements to buy petrochemicals that may be worth more than $1 billion from Iran Petrochemical Commercial Co., said Mohamad Ehtiati, chairman of the Iranian company.

"It's a new stage of the relationship for Japan and Iran,'' Ehtiati said in an interview last Friday in Tokyo after attending an oil conference.

Iran's National Petrochemical Co. is spending $32 billion to build plants as part of a 10-year plan to boost economic growth and get more value from the nation's oil resources. Iran Petrochemical, the trading unit of National Petrochemical, plans to sell ethylene and other products worth $25 billion by 2014. Liquefied Petroleum Gas output may rise to 7 million tons by 2010 from the current 2.2 million tons a year.

"There have been business talks with Iran Petrochemical and there has been some interest on the Marubeni side,'' said Tsutomu Honda, a spokesman at Marubeni Corp. The talks haven't resulted in any legal obligations, he said.

The initial agreements known as memorandums of understanding signed by Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Marubeni will lead to shipments of at least 4 million metric tons over five years starting in 2005, Ehtiati said" (Subrahmaniyan, Nesa, "Japan May Buy $1 Bln of Iran's Chemicals, Iranian Official Says," Bloomberg, March 3, 2004).

Idemitsu Kosan Co. engages primarily in oil refining and petroleum products, producing and sells oils, petroleum products and petrochemicals. (Company Website "About Idemitsu")
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Idemitsu Kosan Co. is Japan's second-largest petroleum refiner. (Yamanaka, Megumi, “Idemitsu Raises 109.4 Billion Yen in Oil Refiner IPO (Update2),” Bloomberg, October 16, 2006.)

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Fortune Global 500 2008 ranks the company as the 262nd largest company in the world by revenue. ("Global 500 2008: Industry: Petroleum Refining," Fortune Global 500. Fortune Magazine. July 21, 2008.)

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As of April 2010, Idemitsu Kosan imports 12 thousand barrels of crude oil per day from Iran. ("Iran’s Crude Oil Buyers in Europe, Asia," Reuters, April 18 2010)

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On the company website, Tehran is marked on a map of global offices in the Middle East. (Company website, “Global Offices - Middle East”)

Suzuki is a Japanese automaker and globally recognized trademark with a capital of 120,210 million yen as of March 31, 2009. (Company Profile)
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“SUZUKI products are now popular in 187 countries worldwide, with local assembly plants” (Company website).

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Suzuki was one of 74 corporations identified by the New York Times as doing business with Iran as well as the United State government in the past ten years. Suzuki, which has received $1.1 million from the U.S. government, "has a production agreement with Iran Khodro Manufacturing Co., the largest automaker in Iran. Iran Khodro mass produces the Suzuki Grand Vitara, a compact SUV. Iran Khodro's Web site showcases several Suzuki models" ("Profiting From Iran, and the U.S.," The New York Times, March 12, 2010).

According to the article, as of March 12 2010, Suzuki status in Iran is listed as active.

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Iranian automaker Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), which manufactures and sells Suzuki vehicles, has a web page for its Suzuki products. (Iranian Dealer website)

"Reports issued by U.S. researchers attempting to document activity by multinational companies in Iran have named...units of Japan's three largest banks--Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group Inc--as doing business that could possibly run afoul of new U.S. rules.

A widely circulated report issued this year by a former U.S. Treasury Department official on global banks doing business with Iranian banks named the Big Three Japanese financial institutions. Spokespeople for the three Japanese banks declined to comment on the accuracy of the report, or how the law might affect their operations in Iran." (Wall Street Journal, "New U.S. Law on Iran May Hurt Japanese Firms," 7/1/2010).

"Reports issued by U.S. researchers attempting to document activity by multinational companies in Iran have named...units of Japan's three largest banks--Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group Inc--as doing business that could possibly run afoul of new U.S. rules.

A widely circulated report issued this year by a former U.S. Treasury Department official on global banks doing business with Iranian banks named the Big Three Japanese financial institutions. Spokespeople for the three Japanese banks declined to comment on the accuracy of the report, or how the law might affect their operations in Iran." (Wall Street Journal, "New U.S. Law on Iran May Hurt Japanese Firms," 7/1/2010).