How to Identify Japanese Electrolytic Capacitors

List of Japanese Capacitors

We compiled below a short table listing the most common Japanese electrolytic capacitor manufacturers that you will find on motherboard and power supplies. We also included their typical markings (as some of them don’t print their names on the capacitors) and also pictures with examples of Japanese capacitors from these brands. There is one important exception. Even though Toshin Kogyo is a Japanese company, they sell rebranded Taiwanese capa
citors, from OST.

Figure 3: Typical capacitor from Chemi-Con (empty rectangle logo).

Figure 4: Capacitors from Panasonic ([M] logo, which means Matsushita)

Figure 5: Capacitors from Sanyo

Figure 6: Capacitors from Rubycon

Figure 7: Capacitors from Toshin Kogyo (TK marking), they are Taiwanese, not Japanese