>>2851698Zeiss makes all sorts of scientific instruments and that's the majority of their business, sure Nikon makes some microscopes and stuff too but not nearly on the same scale.
>>2851703The keiretsu system is kind of weird, Mitsubishi doesn't really own Nikon outright. They are closely related though and all the Mitsubishi companies own shares in each other and I guess the Mitsubishi group would try to protect Nikon, but they're not really a subsidiary.