The Iron Ore Department, as the Japan base of the Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Group, provides iron ore import agency services to Japanese steel companies, and carries out sales activities of iron ore from around the world aimed at blast furnace steelmakers in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

It is helping to ensure customers have a long-term stable supply of raw materials, while meeting their increasingly diverse and high-level needs by providing world market information drawing on the Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Group global network, and by making use of the futures functions and bulk carrier procurement functions in the RtM Group headquarters.