Fukushima Futaba Electric Co. Ltd has been founded in 1964. With resistors in its focus the company based in Japan started to develop and manufacture metal oxide resistors. Since than the product line has been expanded by many electronic components.

The company is worldwide known for its metal plate resistors of the series MPC which were introduced to the market in 1970. Because of the special design features of the metal plate resistors, this series provides a range of advantages e.g. that they are strong against low-resistance values.