世論 What Japan Thinks

Just recently japan.internet.com published the result of a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into foreign-affiliated companies. As finance is one field I know little about, please let me know if I get some of the terminology wrong!

Demographics

On the 14th of March 331 people from JR Tokai Express Research’s monitor group employed in private industry successfully completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 77.9% of the sample was male, 16.6% in their twenties, 43.8% in their thirties, 31.1% in their forties, 7.3% in their fifties, and 1.2% in their sixties.

This topic has, I think, been in the news recently, but I can’t find anything about it. The nearest bit of English news I’ve discovered is this piece from Japan Economy News on a foreign-led shareholder revolt.

Survey results

First, recently it seems that the number of foreign-affiliated Japanese companies with Japanese CEOs/Managing Directors has been increasing.

Out of the 331 people in the sample, 306 worked. (I think the implication is at a non-foreign-affiliated Japanese company)

Q1: At your place of work, has a foreign-affiliated Japanese company been dealing in your shares? (Sample size=306)

Yes (to SQ1)	48.0%
No	39.2%
Don’t know	12.7%

Q1SQ1: Is the president of one of the foreign-affiliated Japanese company that has been dealing in your shares a foreigner? (Sample size=147)

Yes (to SQ2)	49.7%
No	23.8%
Don’t know	26.5%

Q1SQ2: Is there any merit or demerit regarding share dealing if the president of a foreign-affiliated Japanese company that has been dealing in shares is a foreigner? (Sample size=73)

Has merit	0.0%
Has some merit	4.1%
Can’t say either way	35.6%
Has some demerit	11.0%
Has demerit	2.7%
Is not merit or demerit	17.8%
Don’t know	28.8%

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