RIEB, Kobe University

How Can Regional Financial Institutions Promote Regional Revitalization in Japan?: Results of the 2017 Survey on Regional Finance

The authors conducted “Survey of Current Conditions and Challenges of Regional Finance in Relation to Regional Revitalization.” We sent a questionnaire to 520 financial institution headquarters throughout Japan during January and February 2017 with the aim of shedding light on the status of regional revitalization-related measures by regional financial institutions and the challenges they face. Responses were collected from 280 companies (a response rate of 53.8%). In this paper, we report the major results regarding challenges faced in regional revitalization, corporate restructuring support, startup support, and business matching measures.