JT's Businesses

The Japanese domestic tobacco business is the JT Group's core business. JT has a rich reservoir of technologies and know-how related to the manufacturing, sale and research of tobacco, which are at the world's top level.

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is in charge of JT's international tobacco business, which is operated in about 120 countries in Western Europe, CIS, Asia, Africa and Middle East. This business sector serves as the profit growth engine of the JT Group, with an emphasis on branding and multicultural creativity.

In the pharmaceutical business, JT aims to "build a unique, world-class pharmaceutical business driven by R&D," and to "increase our market presence through original and innovative drugs." By making efforts to create medicines that can save sick people around the world and to deliver such medicines to patients as quickly as possible, we hope to merit the respect and aspiration of those who use our pharmaceutical products.

In the food business, the JT Group strives to offer foods that people can consume safely, and to provide products that your loved ones want to eat.