Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Japanese pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tokyo and historic roots in Osaka, founded in 1781 as a medicine merchant and the largest drug maker in Japan. Sells medicines for gastroenterology, rare diseases, plasma derived therapies, oncology and neuroscience together with vaccines, grew through the purchases of Nycomed, Millennium and Shire, and runs research and manufacturing sites in Japan, the United States, Europe and Asia.