More and more Japanese companies have entered Central Europe since the middle of the 1990s, with a view to advancing into the European market. At the beginning, advancement into Hungary attracted much attention, while some companies later launched into the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia. Currently, approximately 200 Japanese companies have business arms in these four Central European counties.
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