By 1993 proud Kodak was playing catch-up to Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co.

FORBES: How an outsider's vision saved Kodak

Those with below-average solvency ratios included household names such as Komatsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Mitsui, Toshiba, Sony and Fuji Photo.

ECONOMIST: Worse to come

Consider some of the Japanese names not appearing on this Fabulous 50: Sony, Honda, Canon, Sharp, Aeon, NTT, NEC, Toshiba, Fujitso, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Fuji Photo Film, Nomura, Seven-Eleven, Mitsubishi and Mitsui.

FORBES: Missing in Action