No, Fujitsu is not a German company. Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1935 as Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing, a spin-off from Fuji Electric Company, which itself came from a joint venture between Japanese Furukawa Electric and German Siemens. That early German connection through Siemens is where some confusion originates, but Fujitsu has always been Japanese-owned and headquartered. The company is Japan's largest IT services provider and one of the world's largest IT companies. The confusion with Germany often comes from two other sources. First, Fujitsu had a major joint venture called Fujitsu Siemens Computers from 1999 to 2009, which was headquartered in Germany and was Europe's largest computer manufacturer at the time, building PCs and servers for the European market. Second, Fujitsu has a large presence in Germany with offices in Munich and manufacturing history there. However, after Fujitsu bought out Siemens' 50% share in 2009, the venture became Fujitsu Technology Solutions, fully Japanese-owned. Today Fujitsu is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is definitively a Japanese company, not German.
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