Abstract
Foreign capital in Japan’s M&A market has become common today. Starting in the American and in the European markets, the trend has lastly engulfed Japan. In the 1980s, Japanese firms were aggressively buying foreign companies in the overseas M&A markets, mainly in America, especially during the bubble economy in the latter half of the 1980s and the very beginning of the 1990s. After the collapse of bubble economy the economy is still sluggish up to now.
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Muramatsu, S. (2001). Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan. In: Holzhausen, A. (eds) Can Japan Globalize?. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11285-4_8
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