According to a survey by JETRO = Japan External Trade Organization, more than 60% of overseas Japanese companies are expecting a surplus in business performance due to the resumption of economic activities that have been depressed due to the corona disaster.
This survey is conducted by JETRO every year for Japanese companies expanding overseas, and in this survey conducted from August to September, more than 7,500 companies responded.
According to this, 62.6% of the companies answered that their operating profit will be in the black, an improvement of 14.6 points from the record low of 48% last year due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
This is 2.4 points lower than that of adults, and it has not reached the level before the spread of infection, but the performance of overseas Japanese companies is improving as a whole due to the resumption of global economic activity and the reaction to the decrease in sales last year. increase.
However, the service industry, which is strongly affected by the restrictions on behavior due to the Corona disaster, still does not recover, and the percentage of companies that expect a deficit is 85.1% for "hotels / travel" and 51.4% for "food and drink", accounting for more than half. increase.
JETRO Chairman Nobuhiko Sasaki, who had a press conference on the results of the survey, said, "The imbalance in the world economy caused by the new corona, such as rising resource prices and semiconductor shortages, cannot be easily resolved, and the uncertainty of international business remains high. The situation continues. "