According to the machinery orders statistics released by the Cabinet Office, which show the future of corporate capital investment, the amount of money that major machinery manufacturers received from domestic companies in April was 963 billion, excluding ships and electric power, which are subject to large fluctuations. In yen, it increased by 10.8% from the previous month for the second consecutive month.
The Cabinet Office has revised the keynote judgment upward to "There is a movement to pick up."
Looking at the breakdown, in the manufacturing industry, orders
for semiconductor manufacturing equipment from electrical machinery manufacturers and
machine tools from automobile manufacturers increased, up
10.3% from the previous month.
In the non-manufacturing industry, orders
for railroad vehicles from the transportation and postal industries and
system-related equipment from the finance and insurance industries increased, increasing
8.9% from the previous month.