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In March 1915, Mosaburo Makita founded Makita Electric Works in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and began selling and repairing lighting equipment, motors and transformers. In 1958, Makita marketed a portable electrical planer in Japan and became a manufacturer of power tools the following year. In April 1969, they introduced the 6500D battery-powered drill . In December 1978, they launched the 6010D rechargeable drill . In August 1997, the 6213D rechargeable driver-drill was exhibited at the Chicago Hardware Show . In February 2005, the TD130D was made available.
Makita ships many of its power tools in Systainer-compatible stacking boxes. In 2011 Makita registered a design for its own "Makpac" variant in the names of Yuji Yamamoto and Kiyozumi Kokawa.