Antimonopoly Actwww.dlapiper.com | 43 138 SME stands for ???Small and Medium sized Enterprises??? and refers to companies: (i) whose capital amount is not more than JPY 300 million and whose number of regular employees is not more than 300, engaged in manufacturing, construction, transportation or other business as its principal business, (ii) whose capital amount is not more than JPY 100 million