These include investments from a parent company located in Japan to its overseas affiliates. Sources: Ministry of Finance; Bank of Japan. Chart 14  Current Account 40  tril.
As a result, all nations have been adjusting to the new reality of heightened international competition and to the accompanying substantial shifts in the location of production of many goods. Such shifts have not been limited merely to the diversion of the production of goods requiring unsophisticated techniques to the developing countries.