Elementary research on the data-base construction and system development, based on the fact-finding study of the internationalization of Japanese financial institutions.

日本金融体系和金融机构的国际化，这是我们研究的主题，在这些天里变化很快。虽然很难把握国际化的真正阶段，但这项任务对于总体经济政策的制定以及货币和银行政策的制定都是不可或缺的。我们的研究项目有这样的优势，因为它已经持续了大约十年。我们的研究主体分为五个小组，即日本银行组、在日外资银行组、证券公司组、保险公司组和数据库组。根据十年的经验和理论分析，每一组都认真地进行了问卷调查。在发出调查问卷后，我们做了很多努力，以获得尽可能多的金融机构的回复。毕竟，例如，70%的城市银行和30%的地区性银行将问卷返回给我们。当有必要证实我们的研究结果时，我们采访了财务省、日本银行等机构的官员。经过这些努力，我们可以建立我们的数据库系统，我们称之为福吉塔系统。我们相信，这个福吉塔系统是独一无二的，没有其他数据库像我们这样。这个FUJITA系统一直在发展，并将发展我们对日本金融体系和金融机构国际化的认识和分析。除了提交给教育部的最终报告外，我们还将在不久的将来发表我们的研究成果。

The internationalization of the Japanese financial systems and financial institutions, which is our research subject, is rapidly changing in these days. Although it is very difficult to grasp the real stage of the internationalization, this task is indispensable to the general economic policy making as well as to the monetary and banking policy making. Our research project has such a strong point as it has been continued for about ten years. Our research body is divided into five groups, that is, Japanese banks group, foreign banks in Japan group, security companies group, insurance companies group, and data-base group. Each group made the questionnaire carefully, based on the ten years' experience and theoretical analyses. After sending the questionnaire, we made a lot of efforts to receive as many as response from the financial institutions. After all, for example, 70 % city banks and 30 % regional banks return the questionnaire to us. When it is necessary to confirm the results of our research, we interviewed officers at Ministry of Finance, Bank of Japan and so on. After these efforts, we could construct our data-base system, which we call as the FUJITA system. We are sure that this FUJITA system is unique and there is no other data-base like ours. This FUJITA system has been developing and will develop our knowledge and analyses of the internationalization of Japanese financial systems and financial institutions. We will publish our research in the near future in addition to the final report presented to the Ministry of Education.