Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of invoice currency in Japanese trade: industry- and commodity-level analysis -- 3. Findings from interviews with globally operating Japanese firms -- 4. Analysis of questionnaire surveys on head offices -- 5. Exchange rate risk management in Japanese firms...

This paper investigates the relationship between the Japanese firms' exposure to the exchange rate risk and risk management, such as choice of invoicing currency, and financial and operational hedge. The firm's exposure to the exchange rate risk is estimated by co-movements of the stock prices...