Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the European Union and its performance were analysed in this work. Three different FDI or entry modes used by Japanese companies to enter the European market were compared, and the presence of a relationship between the selected entry mode and the...

We examine the effect of Japanese official development assistance (ODA) on entry mode and expatriate staffing of Japanese subsidiaries in China over the period 1993-2000 at a sub-national level, based on data aggregated from Toyo Keizai, China Statistical Yearbook and the Embassy of Japan in...

Why does aggregate foreign direct investment (FDI) fall with distance? We conjecture that high trade costs adversely affect FDI entry decisions in a dynamic setting, even when controlling for previous export experience in foreign markets. We test this hypothesis using Japanese firm-level data...