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Today’s SHOSHA handle a wide range of products in most types of industry, literally everything from mineral water to communications satellites. They are involved in and contribute to each value added process in all phases of the flow of business, namely from natural resources upstream to finished products downstream, from the purchase of materials to the sales of products. Such comprehensive involvement is the outcome of always staying with and often ahead of the needs of the time and flexibly adding the necessary modifications and improvements to the products handled, the industries involved, the pattern of transactions and the relative business models.
To give the reader a better idea of the scale of the SHOSHA’s transactions, it might be noted that the combined sales volume of the 46 SHOSHA who are members of the Japan Foreign Trade Council (JFTC) amounted to approximately 80 trillion yen ($758 billion) in fiscal 2000. |
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Involvement in Economic Advancement |
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The SHOSHA have contributed to the economic advancement of Japan and the world, expanding their business activities to cope with the changing times. |
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Outline of Transactions |
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Description of the characteristics of the SHOSHA’s transactions supported by a variety of management resources represented through their global networks. |
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Wide Range of Business Fields |
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Portrait of the wide range of SHOSHA activities in established business fields which provide the core of their current earnings. |
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Challenging New Business Fields |
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Portrait of the SHOSHA’s approaches to new growth fields, such as information and communication technology (ICT), bio-and nano-technologies, the health care/life care field and environmental-related businesses. |
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