Steps to Recovery

In 2020, Japan experienced a significant inbound FDI decline, in the wake of what had been a steady increase over several years prior to the pandemic in sectors such as retail and e-commerce. Outbound FDI by Japanese companies looking to collaborate with, or acquire, overseas enterprises had also been on the rise. Which leads one to ask: What’s the outlook for inbound FDI here—and the rest of the world, for that matter—post-Covid-19?