Fuso (company)

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation
	Headquarters in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Native name	三菱ふそうトラック・バス株式会社
Company type	Private
Industry	Commercial vehicles
Founded	1932; 2003 (Independent)
Headquarters	10 Ōkura-chō, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Key people	Kazuo Matsunaga (Chairman); Karl Deppen (President and CEO);
Products	Buses and trucks
Revenue	$7.6 billion (2010)
Owners	Daimler Truck (89.29%); Mitsubishi group companies (10.71%);
Number of employees	About 10,000 (December 2015)
Parent	Daimler Truck
Subsidiaries	Fuso Trucks America
Website	mitsubishi-fuso.com

The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (Japanese: 三菱ふそうトラック・バス株式会社, Hepburn: Mitsubishi Fusō Torakku・Basu Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of trucks and buses. It is headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa and owned by Germany-based Daimler Truck.^[2]

Fuso derives from the ancient Chinese term fusang (扶桑), for a sacred tree said to grow at the spot in the east where the sun rises, and has been used to refer to Japan itself. The actual fuso tree is a hibiscus.

^ "Corporate profile". Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
^ [1] Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Corporate profile". Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation. Retrieved June 30, 2018.

[daimler1-2] [1] Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

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