2011 年 31 巻 2 号 p. 97-104
The wave of mega M&A between top enterprises is now uprising in Japan. The causes are relative descents in market shares, actual values or presence of Japan top companies and their threat towards rapid globalization and acceleration of M&A in oversea, accompanied with wealth accumulation in China in the development of Asian economy.
More over, the East Japan earthquake and nuclear power plants accidents of Fukushima TEPCO occurred on March 11th 2011 are accelerating the movement of M&A following the shortening of internal market by issues of electricity shortage or super strong yen.
I refer to business models and related issues, taking three cases of mega M&A, steel metal industry of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal, food industry of Kirin and Suntory and electric and heavy industry of Hitachi and Mitsubishi, and attempt future development of M&A within Japan industries