Of the four types of the mutually independent as well as interdependent economic relationships between Japanese corporations and Southeast Asian countries - trade, licensing, direct investment and indirect investment - this paper concentrates on direct investment and trade. Section II briefly...

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...