Teikoku Databank announced on September 2nd regarding the new coronavirus-related bankruptcy trend survey (as of 16:00 on September 2nd).
As a result, as of 16:00 on the same day, there were a total of 4,012 bankruptcies related to the new coronavirus nationwide (3,717 legal liquidations, 295 business suspensions). Small-scale bankruptcies with debts of less than 100 million yen accounted for 2,350 (composition ratio of 58.6%), while large-scale bankruptcies with debts of 10 billion yen or more accounted for only 7 (0.2%).
By industry, there were 97 cases of “car transportation”. The largest number of cases was for “restaurants” with 607 cases, followed by “construction and construction business” with 506 cases, and “food wholesalers” with 205 cases. The total number of cases of manufacturing, wholesale, and retail is 449 for food, 295 for apparel, and 300 for tourism-related businesses such as hotels, inns, travel agencies, sightseeing buses, and souvenir shops. It’s becoming
Looking at the trends in the number of incidents, there are 839 cases in 2020, 1767 cases in 2021, 1406 cases in 2022, and the pace to reach 2000 cases in 2022. By month, 205 cases were recorded in March this year, the highest number. 157 bankruptcies were confirmed in August this year, and 3 bankruptcies in September.
By prefecture, “Tokyo” (747 cases), “Osaka” (415 cases), “Kanagawa” (239 cases), “Fukuoka” (208 cases), in that order, Tokyo and Osaka (1162 cases) total 29.0 1,216 cases in Tokyo and 3 prefectures accounted for 30.3% of the total.
As a general rule, “new coronavirus-related bankruptcy” means that the party or agent (lawyer) admits that the new coronavirus was a factor (main or one factor) of the bankruptcy, and the legal liquidation or business suspension Post-processing is entrusted). In addition, sole proprietorships and bankruptcies with less than 10 million yen in debt are also included in the count, and in the event that a legal liquidation is initiated following the suspension of business, the date of legal liquidation is counted as the date of occurrence.