In 2020, large business enterprises accounted for **** percent of the value added generated in the finance industry in Japan. SMEs accounted for ** percent of the value added generated by the total of business enterprises in Japan.
net value added; including companies and solo proprietorships in non-primary industry; excluding corporate bodies other than companies
Supplementary notes
*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.
Definition of SMEs by industry: Manufacturing, construction, and transportation, as well as other industries not mentioned below: companies whose capital does not exceed 300 million Japanese yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 300 people. Rubber product manufacturing: companies whose capital does not exceed 300 million Japanese yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 900 people.
Wholesale trade: companies whose capital does not exceed 100 million yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 100 people.
Services: companies whose capital does not exceed 50 million yen or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 100 people. Software and information processing services: companies whose capital does not exceed 300 million yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 300 people. Hotel business: companies whose capital does not exceed 50 million yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 200 people.
Retail trade: companies whose capital does not exceed 50 million yen, or a company or an individual whose regular workforce does not exceed 50 people.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.67 U.S. dollars or 0.62 euros as of April 2025.
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The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency. (July 18, 2024). Distribution of value added generated by private business enterprises operating in Japan in 2020, by company size and industry [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 12, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1609791/japan-value-added-breakdown-private-business-enterprises-by-size-and-industry/
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