In 2021, over ***** large business enterprises were operating in the retail trade industry in Japan. That year, there were a total of around ****** thousand large companies in the country, making up *** percent of all business enterprises.
including companies and solo proprietorships in non-primary industry; excluding corporate bodies other than companies
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*Mining and quarrying of stone and gravel, compound services, and services not elsewhere classified such as waste disposal businesses, automobile maintenance services, employment and working dispatching services, political, business, and cultural organizations, etc.
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The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency. (April 24, 2025). Number of private large business enterprises operating in Japan in 2021, by industry [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1338148/japan-number-private-large-business-enterprises-by-industry/
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