Paper and Paperboard in Japan - Market Summary, Competitive Analysis and Forecast to 2025

Paper & Paperboard in Japan industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2016-20, and forecast to 2025). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.

Key Highlights

The paper and paperboard market measures a country’s or region's total use of paper and paperboard. Paper and paperboard include newsprint, printing and writing paper, packaging paper, household and sanitary paper, and other paper and paperboard. Volumes represent the consumption of paper and paperboard in tonnes, and values are calculated using average annual selling price of paper and paperboard per tonne multiplied by consumption volumes.
The Japanese paper & paperboard market had total revenues of $27.4bn in 2020, representing a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -0.7% between 2016 and 2020.
Market consumption volumes declined with a CARC of -4.7% between 2016 and 2020, to reach a total of 21.6 million units in 2020.
The value of the Japanese paper and paperboard market declined by 0.6% in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the supply chain and driving down consumption in most segments apart from packaging products.

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1 Executive Summary

1.1. Market value
1.2. Market value forecast
1.3. Market volume
1.4. Market volume forecast
1.5. Category segmentation
1.6. Geography segmentation
1.7. Market rivalry
1.8. Competitive Landscape

2 Market Overview

2.1. Market definition
2.2. Market analysis

3 Market Data

3.1. Market value
3.2. Market volume

4 Market Segmentation

4.1. Category segmentation
4.2. Geography segmentation

5 Market Outlook

5.1. Market value forecast
5.2. Market volume forecast

6 Five Forces Analysis

6.1. Summary
6.2. Buyer power
6.3. Supplier power
6.4. New entrants
6.5. Threat of substitutes
6.6. Degree of rivalry

7 Competitive Landscape

7.1. Who are the leading players?
7.2. What strategies do the leading players follow?
7.3. Has there been any recent MA activity?
7.4. What are the most recent developments in the market?
7.5. How is plastic pollution affecting the paper and paperboard market?

8 Company Profiles

8.1. Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd
8.2. Japan Pulp and Paper Co Ltd
8.3. Oji Holdings Corporation
8.4. Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited

9 Macroeconomic Indicators

9.1. Country data

10 Appendix

10.1. Methodology
10.2. Industry associations
10.3. Related research
10.4. About the Publisher

List of Tables

Table 1: Japan paper & paperboard market value: $ million, 2016-20
Table 2: Japan paper & paperboard market volume: thousand tonnes, 2016-20
Table 3: Japan paper & paperboard market category segmentation: $ million, 2020
Table 4: Japan paper & paperboard market geography segmentation: $ million, 2020
Table 5: Japan paper & paperboard market value forecast: $ million, 2020-25
Table 6: Japan paper & paperboard market volume forecast: thousand tonnes, 2020-25
Table 7: Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd: key facts
Table 8: Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd: Annual Financial Ratios
Table 9: Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd: Annual Financial Ratios (Continued)
Table 10: Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd: Key Employees
Table 11: Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd: Key Employees Continued
Table 12: Japan Pulp and Paper Co Ltd: key facts
Table 13: Japan Pulp and Paper Co Ltd: Annual Financial Ratios
Table 14: Japan Pulp and Paper Co Ltd: Key Employees
Table 15: Japan Pulp and Paper Co Ltd: Key Employees Continued
Table 16: Oji Holdings Corporation: key facts
Table 17: Oji Holdings Corporation: Annual Financial Ratios
Table 18: Oji Holdings Corporation: Key Employees
Table 19: Oji Holdings Corporation: Key Employees Continued
Table 20: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited: key facts
Table 21: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited: Annual Financial Ratios
Table 22: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited: Key Employees
Table 23: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited: Key Employees Continued
Table 24: Japan size of population (million), 2016-20
Table 25: Japan GDP (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 2016-20
Table 26: Japan GDP (current prices, $ billion), 2016-20
Table 27: Japan inflation, 2016-20
Table 28: Japan consumer price index (absolute), 2016-20
Table 29: Japan exchange rate, 2016-20

List of Figures

Figure 1: Japan paper & paperboard market value: $ million, 2016-20
Figure 2: Japan paper & paperboard market volume: thousand tonnes, 2016-20
Figure 3: Japan paper & paperboard market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2020
Figure 4: Japan paper & paperboard market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2020
Figure 5: Japan paper & paperboard market value forecast: $ million, 2020-25
Figure 6: Japan paper & paperboard market volume forecast: thousand tonnes, 2020-25
Figure 7: Forces driving competition in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020
Figure 8: Drivers of buyer power in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020
Figure 9: Drivers of supplier power in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020
Figure 10: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020
Figure 11: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020
Figure 12: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the paper & paperboard market in Japan, 2020