TOCOM is operated by Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社東京商品取引所, Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Tōkyō Shōhin Torihikijo, Corporate Number: 4010001121906),[2] a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Exchange Group (JPX).

[5] TOCOM once operated electronic markets for precious metals, oil, rubber and soft commodities.

It offered futures and options contracts for precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium); energy (crude oil, gasoline, kerosene and gas oil); natural rubber and agricultural products (soybeans, corn and azuki).

Today, TOCOM is the only Japanese exchange that offers energy commodities futures on gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, Dubai Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, baseload electricity, peakload electricity, Chukyo gasoline, and Chukyo kerosene.

TOCOM will use Japan Exchange Group's new derivatives trading platform, Next J-Gate, from September 2016.