Hitachi

American

[hi-tah-chee] / hɪˈtɑ tʃi /

noun

an industrial city in E Honshu, Japan.

Hitachi British

/ hɪˈtætʃɪ /

noun

a city in Japan, in E Honshu: a centre of the electronics industry. Pop: 193 080 (2002 est)

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Aberdeen likes industrial conglomerate Hitachi, whose joint venture with General Electric is slated to build “small modular” nuclear power plants across the Southeast.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Its joint venture with Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has an edge in the race to build small nuclear reactors to power everything from data centers to entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

These companies are household names in Japan, and often in the United States: Hitachi.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The company behind the scheme – the Japanese industrial giant Hitachi - cited spiralling costs and a failure to reach agreement with the UK government over funding.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Just a few months before the accident my dad had finally bought this $350 Hitachi bread machine he’d seen in a catalog and had been wanting and that my mom thought was unnecessary and ridiculous.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

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