{"id":434972,"date":"2026-01-26T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:27:12","slug":"japans-corporate-bankruptcies-top-10000-for-second-straight-year-in-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434972\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Corporate Bankruptcies Top 10,000 for Second Straight Year in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-series\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/series\/japan-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Data<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tJan 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan increased to 10,300 in 2025, which is its highest level since 2012.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>  \t\t\t\t Bankruptcies Rise Again<\/p>\n<p>A Tokyo Sh\u014dk\u014d Research report found that the number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan involving a total liability of \u00a510 million or more rose by 2.9% year on year in 2025 to 10,300. This was the second successive year for the total to exceed 10,000. The bankrupt firms included the listed company Alt, an artificial intelligence developer, after accounting irregularities came to light. However, overall liabilities fell by 32% to \u00a51.6 trillion, as many of the bankruptcies involved microenterprises with liabilities of less than \u00a5100 million. It was the first time in four years for overall liabilities to fall below \u00a52 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2942193.png\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2942193\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2942193.png\" data-libid=\"2942193\" alt=\"Corporate Bankruptcies and Total Liabilities in Japan\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of bankruptcies caused by labor shortages hit a new record, as wages rose and companies struggled to attract staff. The weakening of the yen, with the dollar rising above \u00a5158 at one point in 2025, and higher import costs meant the number of bankruptcies caused by rising prices increased for the third successive year.<\/p>\n<p>By industry, bankruptcies increased year on year in 7 out of 10 categories, with decreases only in wholesale, finance\/insurance, and transportation. The largest number was in the service industry with 3,478. Bankruptcies rose in seven out of nine regions, excluding Hokkaid\u014d and Ch\u016bgoku.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Sh\u014dk\u014d Research says that in 2026, \u201cCauses for concern include rising interest rates following the Bank of Japan\u2019s rate hike, the impact of the Trump tariffs, and fraying ties with China.\u201d It predicts a gradual increase in bankruptcies through March this year, the end of fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Data Sources<\/p>\n<p>(Translated from Japanese. Banner photo \u00a9\u00a0Pixta.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">bankruptcy<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan Data Economy Jan 27, 2026 The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan increased to 10,300 in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19663,45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-434972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bankruptcy","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}