Translation guide
The concept of diversification is expressed in Japanese through specific business terms, general words for variety, and verbs meaning to spread or distribute. The best choice depends on whether you are talking about corporate strategy, personal risk management, or simply adding variety.
Expanding a company's products, services, or investments to reduce risk.
The standard business term for diversification, especially of a company's operations or product lines.
Our company is promoting business diversification.
Specifically refers to investment diversification, spreading assets across different instruments to reduce risk.
Diversification of investments is important to reduce risk.
General term for dispersion or distribution; used in contexts like risk diversification or supply chain diversification.
Diversification of the supply chain is necessary.
Making something more varied or diverse, not necessarily for risk reduction.
Refers to diversification in the sense of increasing variety, such as in products, services, or demographics.
Customer needs are diversifying.
A casual way to say 'increase variety' or 'diversify options', often used in product development or menus.
Let's diversify the menu.
Physically or metaphorically spreading things out to avoid concentration.
Transitive verb meaning to disperse or distribute; used for diversifying locations, resources, etc.
We use multiple warehouses to diversify risk.
Literally 'to scatter'; can be used metaphorically for diversifying investments or efforts, but less formal.
多角化 (diversification) is primarily a business strategy term for expanding into new areas, while 多様化 (diversification/variation) is a broader term for increasing variety. In business contexts, 多角化 implies a deliberate strategic move, whereas 多様化 can simply describe a trend.
business diversification
diversification of values
In investment contexts, always use 分散投資 or 分散. Using 多様化 for investment diversification sounds unnatural.
投資先を散らすことでリスクを下げる。
Lower risk by diversifying where you invest.