We are pleased to announce that in March 2020, Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. published "Foreign Trade 2020", with full coverage of Japan's foreign trade statistics on a customs-cleared basis for the previous year.

"Foreign Trade 2020" marks the 45^th edition of this publication since it was first released in 1976. Using latest trade statistics, "Foreign Trade 2020" features Japan’s foreign trade, by area and by commodity. It is abundant with graphs and charts, and concise comments so readers can quickly grasp the basic trend of Japan’s trade. Improvements have been added over the years, such as the addition of new information to the data chapter.

We hope you will find this volume useful for example, as a reader for new employee education, or as a reference for local employees in foreign countries.