Capital goods - Shihonzai (English spelling) capital goods

Japanese: 資本財 - しほんざい（英語表記）capital goods

Capital goods are goods other than land used to produce wealth, and are means of production or intermediate products produced by humans. They are also called investment goods or producer goods. Capital goods are divided into fixed capital goods, such as machines, buildings, and tools, which are used over the long term, and current capital goods, such as raw materials, which lose their original form after a single use, depending on their durability. Capital goods are often treated as almost synonymous with producer goods, but according to the statistical classification of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, only fixed capital goods are capital goods, and current capital goods are producer goods. Therefore, the production and shipment index of capital goods from the statistics of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is used as an important economic indicator to judge the trend of capital investment.

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Japanese:

富を生産するために使用される土地以外の財貨であり，人間によって生産された生産手段ないし中間生産物である。投資財ないし生産財とも呼ばれる。資本財は耐久性に応じて機械，建物，道具などのように長期にわたって使用される固定資本財と原材料のように一度の使用によって原形を消滅する流動資本財に分けられる。資本財は生産財とほとんど同義語として扱われることが多いが，日本の経済産業省の統計分類によれば資本財は固定資本財だけであり，流動資本財は生産財となっている。したがって経済産業省統計による資本財の生産，出荷指数は設備投資の動向を判断する重要な景気指標として使われている。

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