Trends of foreign-affiliated companies

...However, even if a company is 100% foreign-owned, it may be included if it is a Japanese corporation. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry has been conducting surveys of foreign-owned companies since 1967, and has been publishing the Trends of Foreign-Affiliated Companies every year since 1968. Currently, this survey covers companies with more than one-third foreign ownership, and is divided into "pure foreign-owned companies" where more than 95% of the capital is foreign-owned, "joint ventures" where Japanese companies and foreign capital jointly invest (foreign capital also participates in management), and foreign-owned companies where some of the stock of an existing Japanese company is acquired by foreign capital (stock holdings only). ...

*Some of the terminology used in "Trends of Foreign Companies" is explained below.

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…なお外資が100％の外資企業でも，日本法人ならば含めることがある。通産省は1967年以降外資系企業について調査を行い，68年以降毎年《外資系企業の動向》を公刊している。これは現在，外資1/3超の企業が対象で，資本の95％以上を外資によって占められる〈純外資会社〉，日本企業と外資との共同出資による〈合弁会社〉(外資も経営に参加)，既存の日本企業の株式の一部が外資によって取得された外資導入企業(株式保有のみ)に分けられている。…

※「《外資系企業の動向》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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