Japan Wholesale Trade Brief (October 2026)
Market size, IT investment and labor shortage in Japanese wholesale trade — by company size, from official statistics only.
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Who this is for
You sell software or B2B services and are looking at Japan's wholesale sector — distributors of food, machinery, pharmaceuticals, building materials and more. You need numbers you can put in a market-entry plan or a sales deck, and you need to know where each number comes from.
What you get
- Market size by company size: number of companies, employees, sales and software investment, by capital and by number of employees (2021 Economic Census).
- Who is investing: capital investment trends, software investment plans for FY2026 by company size, and how far plans have historically fallen short of actual results (Business Outlook Survey; Bank of Japan Tankan).
- Labor shortage: staffing indicators by company size, pay per employee and approximate annual earnings.
- Small and medium enterprises: cost structure and whether — and why — they invest (Basic Survey on SMEs).
- Listed companies: aggregates for 297 listed wholesale companies, and the 20 largest spenders on intangible assets such as software, with document IDs from their annual securities reports.
- Guide to the data: how Japanese statistics define company size and fiscal years, and how to read indicators such as the DI and BSI — written for readers new to Japanese data.
- Excel workbook: every table in the report, with sources, as numbers you can reuse.
Free summary
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Why you can trust the numbers
- Official sources only. Every figure comes from Japanese government statistics, the Bank of Japan or companies' annual securities reports.
- Every number is sourced. Each table states the statistic, table ID, reference period and company-size definition.
- Facts, interpretation and hypotheses are kept apart, and each report has a "Data limitations" section that tells you what the data cannot say.
- Found an error? We refund. If any figure in the report does not match the source it cites, tell us. Once we confirm it, we refund the price and send you a corrected edition. See the refund policy.
What this report is not
- It is not investment advice and does not evaluate individual companies or share prices.
- It does not include data on individual people.
- Figures are in Japanese yen. Some data is older than others (the Economic Census is from 2021); each table says when its data is from.
Details
- Format: PDF, 18 pages (A4) + Excel workbook (16 sheets)
- Edition: October 2026 (data as of October 15, 2026)
- Language: English
- Price: US$10, one-time (sales tax or VAT added at checkout where applicable)
- Delivery: Instant download after purchase, via Lemon Squeezy
- Updates: Corrections are sent free to buyers of this edition
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