We examine traits of Japanese multi-national enterprises which expand U.S. businesses under the U.S. president Trump’s unexpected political condition as a potentially “geopolitical risk”, by analyzing the structured questionnaire to them and their financial data. The logistic regression analysis reveals that labor productivity and a positive expectation to the economic stimulus policies affect significantly a decision-making to expand U.S. businesses, while an effective global governance structure has not yet been formed in Japanese multi-national enterprises.

This paper examines the factors behind the transition from non-regular employment to regular employment. The main results are as follows: The transition from non-regular to regular employment is more likely to occur, if the person starts their career as a regular employee; the use of Hello Work, a job service center, facilitates women’s transition to regular employment; and leaving the previous job after finding the current job allows for easier transition to regular employment. These results were also validated when the sample only included workers who started their careers as regular employees.