The Sogo Shosha There are thousands of trading companies in Japan today, but only a few hundred are engaged in foreign trade. Amongst them are the sogo shosha, which are Japanese general trading companies. In 1993, there are only 16 sogo shosha in Japan (Shao and Herbig, 1993, p.37). These sogo shosha, whether compares with Japanese or non-Japanese trading companies, are 'unique in terms of the scale of transactions, the almost infinite number of products they handle, the …showed first 75 words of 2586 total…

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