Companies earning more than Toyota’s annual ¥3 trillion every month are emerging around the world. NVIDIA is said to generate approximately ¥9 trillion in net profit over 3 months, equivalent to roughly ¥3 trillion a month. Attention is focusing on the scale of other companies’ enormous profits in comparison with the current state of Japanese companies.
Companies generating enormous profits on a monthly basis are emerging one after another around the world. Compared with Toyota, a leading Japanese company whose profits amount to approximately ¥3 trillion a year, overseas companies are said to exceed the same amount in a single month.
NVIDIA is a representative example. Its results for the second quarter of 2026 showed revenue of approximately $96 billion and net profit of approximately $60 billion over 3 months, and it is said that its monthly net profit could reach approximately ¥3 trillion.
South Korean companies such as Samsung Electronics, which have benefited from the AI boom, have also achieved rapid growth. Persistently strong demand for AI memory is driving up corporate profits and share prices. Meanwhile, Japanese companies are facing declining market share in Europe and expectations of lower profits, while the distribution of wealth and widening inequality are becoming focal points of debate both in Japan and overseas.
The second part is expected to examine the reality of disparities in bonuses and compensation in the ¥70 million range, providing a detailed account of how the spread of generative AI is concentrating wealth.