Japan Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Market Overview 2027

APIs are the ingredients that are being used in medicines to cure diseases. This API shows the intended effect on the body once it is consumed to cure diseases. These APIs have a larger market scope worldwide. The market for APIs is the fastest growing market right now in the world. The US is considered to be the major player in the world that has the most innovative production system, followed by China at second and, at third, comes the Japanese API market, which has the most innovative API in the world and is consistently dominating and giving the world the toughest competition to come up to the highest possible level. The Japanese API market is dealing with synthetic and biotech or natural APIs.

According to the report Japan Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Market Overview 2027, it is observed that the Japanese API market is the fastest-growing market in the Asia Pacific region and holds the lion's share of the APAC region market. The Japanese nation is one of the healthiest nations, but an increase in chronic diseases has led to a demand for APIs. Because of the advancement in biologics, the Japanese market has an increased demand for the biotech API. These are the APIs that are being produced naturally or extracted from natural resources. Biotech APIs in Japan have dominated the market in previous years, and it is expected that they will continue to dominate the market in the coming year with a CAGR of more than 10%.

The COVID-19 standard is one of the primary factors driving the global API market due to increased incidences of health problems. Because of the increase in the demand for the vaccination, Japan has consumed more of the API in order to produce the vaccination. The major driver for the Japanese API market is the increased cases of chronic diseases that are high. The major driver for the increase in the Japanese API market is cancer or oncology diseases. Because of this, the number of deaths is increasing. The API market through the therapeutic implication of oncology or cancer diseases is expected to be over 8% CAGR in the upcoming forecasted year. The market is dominated by biotech API, which is in high demand due to the increased advancement in biologics. The Japanese nation has the most innovative technology in the world, it has led to an increase in the production and investment capacity of the API. The increase in the population of aged people is increasing, which leads to an increased number of patients among the elderly. The increased number of elderly people among the Japanese people has been the major cause of people getting infected with diseases like diabetes. The number of people infected with diabetes is increasing. Therefore, the market share for diabetes in terms of CAGR is expected to increase by over 8%. Diabetes is expected to be the world's largest disease by 2030. The consumption of APIs for oncology and diabetes is the major driver of the API market that leads to the API market's growth.

People in the nation are majorly buying the APIs through the involvement of a third party, which leads to the growth of the merchant API market size with growth in terms of CAGR. The merchant API refers to the involvement of retail stores or medical stores. Retail stores and medical stores are the major third parties that contributed to increasing the dominance of the API market in Japan. Also, Indian and Chinese firms are dominating the Japanese market by hindering the market price with lower prices.

Considered in this report

• Geography: Japan
• Historic Year: 2016
• Base year: 2021
• Estimated year: 2022
• Forecast year: 2027

Aspects covered in this report

• Japan active pharmaceutical ingredient market
• Application wise API market analysis
• Various drivers and challenges
• On-going trends and developments
• Top profiled companies
• Strategic recommendation

Based on synthesis type of API in the report:

• Synthetic API
• Biotech API

Based on therapeutic application type of API in the report:

• Communicable diseases
• Oncology
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Pain management
• Respiratory diseases
• Other therapeutic application

By Type of manufacturer in the report:

• Captive API
• Biotech API

The approach of the report:

This report consists of a combined approach of primary as well as secondary research. Initially, secondary research was used to get an understanding of the market and listing out the companies that are present in the market. The secondary research consists of third-party sources such as press releases, annual report of companies, analysing the government generated reports and databases. After gathering the data from secondary sources primary research was conducted by making telephonic interviews with the leading players about how the market is functioning and then conducted trade calls with dealers and distributors of the market. Post this we have started doing primary calls to consumers by equally segmenting consumers in regional aspects, tier aspects, age group, and gender. Once we have primary data with us we have started verifying the details obtained from secondary sources.

Intended audience

This report can be useful to industry consultants, manufacturers, suppliers, associations & organizations related to pharmaceutical industry, API manufacturing industries, government bodies and other stakeholders to align their market-centric strategies. In addition to marketing & presentations, it will also increase competitive knowledge about the industry.