Accorpine to the returns just published by the Japanese Financial authorities, the capital invested during the month of October this year in business enterprises aggregated Y.108,150,000 and the old capital increased Y.174,789,000 or Y.200,000,000 in all. As compared with the figures recorded for the corresponding period of the preceding year, the above in dicates a decrease by something like—Y.78,000,000. The decrease is, no doubt, due to the effect "f business depression, observes a vernacular news agency, and the tendency is still downward, with no sign of immediate iniprovement.
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