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JETRO Publishes 2024 Survey on Business Operations of Foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ in Japan
Mar 25, 2025
Overall favorable business conditions: Almost 50% maintained revenue growth; challenges to acquire talent persists
JETRO sent questionnaires to 7,301 foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ* based in Japan from October to November 2024, receiving valid responses from 1,427 カジノ無料ゲームアプリ (valid response rate: 19.5%).
The goal of this survey is to promote foreign investment in Japan by understanding the business trends, the appeal and challenges in the business environment and the kind of support required by foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ in Japan. This survey will serve as a reference basic data for improving the business environment and facilitating related policies.
*In this survey, a "foreign-affiliated company" refers to a company in which a foreign company/investor has a stake, regardless カジノ無料ゲームアプリ the foreign capital ratio.
- 1．Foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ’ business conditions in Japan are generally favorable, with approximately 50% maintaining revenue growths.
- The revenue of foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ in Japan showed a year-on-year (YoY) slowdown trend in 2024, at par with Japanese カジノ無料ゲームアプリ. Despite a 6.6% YoY decrease, 48.7% of カジノ無料ゲームアプリ reported an increase in revenue, more than double of the 24.0% reporting a decrease. In the service industry, about 50% カジノ無料ゲームアプリ increased their revenue, the percentage remaining almost unchanged.
- About 60% of カジノ無料ゲームアプリ reported their business plans progressing as planned, a YoY increase, citing keeping and strengthening good relationships with customers and partners as main factors.
- When examining the relationship between collaborative activities—meaning the business or capital alliances between foreign and Japanese カジノ無料ゲームアプリ, universities or research institutions—and foreign-affiliated カジノ無料ゲームアプリ’ YoY sales variation, those currently engaged in and considering collaboration/cooperation reported higher sales than those not yet engaged and not considering doing so either. The use of resources in Japan might be one of the factors behind their sales growth.
- 2．Japan’s main business environment appeal lies in its market scale and growth potential, with socioeconomic stability becoming an increasingly significant factor, while a dire talent acquisition situation persists.
- When asked about Japan’s business environment appeal compared to that カジノ無料ゲームアプリ markets worldwide, respondents ranked Japan’s overall market scale and growth potential first, followed by social and economic stability as second and a well-developed infrastructure as third, in the same order as the last survey. While Japan’s appeal decreased overall, social and economic stability rose again by 0.1%, becoming an increasingly prominent country strength.
- In terms of Japan’s business environment challenges, カジノ無料ゲームアプリ faced remarkable difficulties in acquiring general and skilled personnel, being their top improvement priority, above that of administrative procedures, etc. By specific job categories with difficulty to recruit talent, sales and marketing positions faced the highest difficulty at about 60%, followed by IT and technical positions at about 40%, with both categories significantly surpassing all others. By industry, manufacturers also reported much higher difficulty versus successful talent acquisition rates.
- 3．カジノ無料ゲームアプリ keep diversifying their manufacturing sites in light of geopolitical risks.
- Asked about Japan’s importance considering geopolitical risks, more than half of カジノ無料ゲームアプリ reported “no change,” the same result as the previous survey. An analysis by parent company’s country and region showed that Asian カジノ無料ゲームアプリ reiterated viewing Japan’s as increasingly important compared to North American and European カジノ無料ゲームアプリ. While Japan’s importance decreased in the eyes of most countries, a slight increase was reported exclusively by US-owned カジノ無料ゲームアプリ.
- When asked about the countermeasures for geopolitical risks, カジノ無料ゲームアプリ said they kept restructuring their supply chains by diversifying their manufacturing bases. Multiple respondents said that their perception of China was starting to change, citing “China’s manufacturing industry cost competitiveness is diminishing,” or “doing business with China is particularly challenging,” as reasons. Some カジノ無料ゲームアプリ also started relocating their production from China to Southeast Asian countries.
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Miyazaki (Mr.), Taniguchi (Ms.),Saito (Ms.), Takase (Mr.)
Strategic Planning Division, Innovation Department.
Phone: +81-3-3582-5312 E-mail: iva-research@jetro.go.jp
