| Commerce/Distribution (in tertiary industry): 1994 | |||||
| TABLE 1: | |||||
| Categories | Number of firms | Sales (in Trillions of Yen) | % of Total Sales | Rank wrt % | |
| a. Wholesalers | |||||
| general trading (sogo shyosya) | 1,159 | 91.7 | 18% | 3 | |
| clothes | 40,970 | 30.4 | 6% | 7 | |
| agricultural products | 96,224 | 104.3 | 20% | 2 | |
| machinery | 97,691 | 110.8 | 22% | 1 | |
| etc. | remaining | ||||
| 100% | |||||
| b. Retailers | |||||
| department store, seikyo | 4,839 | 20.4 | 14% | 2 | |
| clothes | 225,714 | 14.2 | 10% | 4 | |
| foods | 569,403 | 43.0 | 30% | 1 | |
| cars | 89,345 | 17.5 | 12% | 3 | |
| furniture, electric appliances | 144,368 | 11.5 | 8% | 5 | |
| etc. | remaining | ||||
| 100% | |||||
| TABLE 2: | |||||
| Number of workers | Number of firms | ||||
| 1 to 2 | a. Wholesalers | 90,382 | |||
| b. Retailers | 764,772 | ||||
| 3 to 4 | a. Wholesalers | 103,004 | |||
| b. Retailers | 370,944 | ||||
| 5 to 9 | a. Wholesalers | 120,148 | |||
| b. Retailers | 222,552 | ||||
| 10 - | a. Wholesalers | 115,768 | |||
| b. Retailers | 141,680 | ||||