Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Tables -- 1 Publicly Offered Bonds Outstanding -- 2 Issuance of Publicly Offered Bonds -- 3 Trading Volume of Publicly Offered Bonds -- 4 Liberalization of the Japanese Yen and the Corporate Bond Market -- 5 Publicly Offered Corporate Bonds Outstanding -- 6 Publicly Offered Corporate Bond Issuance Volumes -- 7 Corporate Bond Issuing Entities by Structure -- 8 Corporate Bond Holdings by Structure -- 9 Coverage of the Three Self-Regulatory Organizations in the Japan Bond Market