P@See Family Firm Institute Web site (http://www.ffi.org/).
Q@The data source is Nihon
Kaisha-shi Soran (A Bibliography of Company History), Toyo
Keizai Shinpo-sha,
1995. This book summarizes the
histories of 3072 important firms in Japan.
R@If there are foundations or other organizations owned by family
members, the equity share of them are counted in the family share. The data source is Oukabunushi Soran (A Bibliography of Large Shareholders), Toyo Keizai,
1994.
S@Japanese economy had suffered from long depression, glost ten
years,h as we call, since the collapse of the bubble economy in 1992, and has
recovered early 2000s.