6861 on Tokyo Stock Exchange

Keyence

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Japanese electronics manufacturer

Keyence Corporation (キーエンス, Kīensu) is a Japan-based direct sales organization that develops and manufactures equipment for factory automation, sensors, measuring instruments, vision systems, barcode readers, laser markers and digital microscopes. Keyence is fabless — although it is a manufacturer; it specializes solely in product planning and development and does not manufacture the final products. Keyence products are manufactured at qualified contract manufacturing companies.² Its shares trade on Tokyo Stock Exchange under the symbol 6861.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

May 27, 1974Founded¹

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Ticker6861 on Tokyo Stock Exchange¹
Industryelectronics¹
HeadquartersOsaka¹
Founded inOsaka¹
Websitewww.keyence.com
Legal formkabushiki gaisha¹
LEI529900M7PQBS7A89DZ11³
StatusActive³
LEI statusIssued and current³
Registered address東中島一丁目3番14号, 533-8555 大阪府大阪市東淀川区, Japan³
Registered withLegal Affairs Bureau, 1200-01-051530³

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Corporate structure

Keyence sits at the top of its group. 4 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Keyence 大阪府大阪市東淀川区, Japan
- JustSystems Subsidiary · 徳島市, Japan
- Keyence Corporation of America Subsidiary · Elmwood Park
- KEYENCE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Chennai, India

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Keyence reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.¹

Products and brands

Operations

Keyence Corporation is a global company with a network of 16 international organizations that specializes in factory automation. Keyence Corporation earns over US$4.9 billion in yearly sales and employs more than 8,300 employees worldwide. As a direct sales company, Keyence salespeople visit customers on site with demonstration cases to show products live.

Keyence's range of products are part of the manufacturing and research processes in a variety of industries, including the electronics, semiconductor, automotive, food and packaging, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

Products

Keyence is a fabless manufacturing company that sells a broad range of products, from the photoelectric sensor and proximity sensors to measuring instruments for inspection lines to high precision microscopes used in research institutes. These products are used by more than 300,000 customers globally. Products are shipped from Keyence's warehouses in Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, or from 148 agents in 31 countries.

From Wikipedia’s article on Keyence, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁵

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

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Controversies and legal

Controversies

Sexual assault case involving employees

In August 2024, four then-employees of Keyence were indicted by the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office on charges of non-consensual sexual intercourse under Japanese criminal law, in connection with an alleged group sexual assault on a woman at a guesthouse in Tokyo. In October 2025, two additional Keyence employees were reported to have been further indicted on the same charge in relation to the case.