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Japan Aerospace and Defense Market Size Share Growth Outlook 2025-2033

Posted by rockyrai on August 25, 2025 - 9:42am Edited 8/25 at 9:43am

Market Size and Growth

Base Year: 2024

Historical Years: 2019-2024

Forecast Years: 2025-2033

Market Size in 2024: USD 55.0 Billion

Market Forecast in 2033: USD 82.4 Billion

Market Growth Rate: 4.6% (2025-2033)

According to the latest report by IMARC Group, the Japan aerospace and defense market size reached USD 55.0 billion in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 82.4 billion by 2033, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.6% from 2025 to 2033.

Japan Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends and Drivers

Japan's aerospace and defense space is proceeding along two lines, with new accounts from fleet renewal, space-based capabilities, and a multi-year defense modernization approach that has corresponded with deterrent (the focus on deterrence), interoperability (the focus on interoperability), and domestically-focused industrial resilience. In aerospace, advancements by airlines and military in engaging efficiency upgrades, maintenance, repair, and overhaul process digitization, and supply chain localization to localized modernization are all fueling demand for next-gen aircraft systems, next-gen engines, and lightweight materials. While satellite manufacturing, launch services, and downstream applications abound in communications, Earth observation (EO), and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) represents the dual-use space economy. On the defense side, integrated air and missile defense (IAMD), maritime domain awareness, and developing unmanned and cyber-electromagnetic capabilities remain priority areas, all aided by upgrades to sensors, command and control, secure communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) constellations to enhance in-region threat resilience. Stakeholder industrial strategy seek to achieve domestic options for indigenous development and co-development - such as but not limited to advanced fighters, and propulsion and avionics tiered upgrades for any top-tier suppliers that have preceded export controls goals for lower tiers, and a combination of "upscale" defining standards for sub suppliers that would enhance cybersecurity and technology in patron agreements with, for and backyard like standards that can also include controls for legacy stock labelled ITAR; and across the industrial ecosystem.

Trends across products and projects are unfolding in a relatively normalized manner in the finding and executing on the digital layer enhanced areas of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and (recursive) autonomy to the strength of predictive maintenance, digital threading and model-based systems engineering to streamlining creative development cycles, advancements in additive manufacturing for sustainability, spare parts supplies agility across eco-acitivities, and combined ongoing sustainable aviation activities related sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), electrification, and thermal-management. These are all elements for a more tightly coupled, software-defined connected and export-ready eco-system.

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Japan Aerospace and Defense Market Segmentation

The market report offers a comprehensive analysis of the segments, highlighting those with the largest Japan aerospace and defense market share. It includes forecasts for the period 2025-2033 and historical data from 2019-2024 for the following segments:

Service Type Insights:

  • Manufacturing
  • MRO

Platform Insights:

  • Terrestrial
  • Aerial
  • Naval

Sector Insights:

  • Aerospace
  • Defense

Regional Insights:

  • Kanto Region
  • Kinki Region
  • Central/Chubu Region
  • Kyushu-Okinawa Region
  • Tohoku Region
  • Chugoku Region
  • Hokkaido Region
  • Shikoku Region

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Competitive Landscape

The report offers an in-depth examination of the competitive landscape. It includes a thorough competitive analysis encompassing market structure, key player positioning, leading strategies for success, a competitive dashboard, and a company evaluation quadrant. Additionally, the report features detailed profiles of major companies in the Japan aerospace and defense industry.

  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • ShinMaywa Industries Ltd.
  • Thales Group

Key Highlights of the Report:

  • Market Performance (2019-2024)
  • Market Outlook (2025-2033)
  • COVID-19 Impact on the Market
  • Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
  • Strategic Recommendations
  • Historical, Current, and Future Market Trends
  • Market Drivers and Success Factors
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Structure of the Market
  • Value Chain Analysis
  • Comprehensive Mapping of the Competitive Landscape

Note: If you need specific information that is not currently within the scope of the report, we will provide it to you as a part of the customization.

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