Illustration: Inside a small Japanese manufacturing workshop, its owner and an overseas investment representative formally shake hands beside a newly installed production machine.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

外がい資し

gaishi

foreign capital, foreign investment

Example sentences

  1. また、この当時とうじは外資がいしを積極的せっきょくてきに受うけ入いれて経済けいざいを活性化かっせいかさせようという動うごきがあった。

    During this time, there were movements to revitalize the economy by actively inviting foreign investments.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 昭和に入ると、外資系レコード会社が日本に製造会社を作り、電気吹込みという新録音システムも導入され新しい時代を迎えた。

    A new age dawned in the Showa period when foreign record companies established production companies in Japan and a new recording system called electric recording was introduced.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 関東大震災かんとうだいしんさいの影響えいきょうで金融きんゆうの道みちが閉とざされた時ときには、対日感情たいにちかんじょうが悪化あっかしつつあったアメリカに乗のり込こみ、前代未聞ぜんだいみもんの2万まん5千せんドルもの外資がいし導入どうにゅうに成功せいこうしている。

    When Japanese economy came to a standstill in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, he bravely visited the United States where sentiment toward Japan was deteriorating, and he succeeded in introducing the foreign capital of as much as 25,000 dollars, which was unheard of.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 外資

  • 外outsideOnガイ・ゲKunそと・ほか・はずす
  • 資assets; resourcesOnシ

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