Small- and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of Japan’s economy, accounting for 99.7% of all enterprises and numbering over 3.5 million, as reported by the OECD. These businesses prioritize fostering human capital, technological advances, sustainability, and, most recently, expanding internationally, making Japanese SMEs among the world’s most resilient.
As the Japanese labor force experiences rapid shrinkage, manufacturers in Japan are embracing automation and Industry 4.0-related technologies at an unprecedented rate to enhance the resilience of complex supply chains, such
