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Diverse Industries in a Diverse Region

Industrial field by region in Kansai
関西の地域別産業集積

Composition ratio (%) of Kansai’s (nominal)
GDP by industry

Fukui⚫
⚫

⚫

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Electrical machinery and equipment manufacturingindustry (consumer electrical machinery, etc.)
Glass and product manufacturing industry

Kyoto⚫
⚫

A variety of industrial fields are concentrated in Kansai, fromupstream to downstream, including materials, parts processing,and cutting-edge product manufacturing.

Lacquerware manufacturing industry
Textile industry (knit fabric manufacturing industry,dyeing arrangement industry)

Shiga

Electronic component / device / electronic circuit
manufacturing industry
Textile industry (dyeing and sorting industry, textileindustry)Osaka“We can make anything”: a manufacturing industry hub

Others23%
Transport&p
ostalservices
5%

Professional,scientific&t
echnical,and businesssupport services
8%

Manufacturing
23%

National share of manufactured goods shipments

Publicadministration,education,humanhealth,and social
work activities
17%
Real estate
12%

Wholesale&retaili
ng
12%

Textile industry（2８.0%）

Chemical industry（19.7%）

Tanned leather,tanned leather
product, furmanufacturingindustry（27.1%）

Steel（22.3%）

Metal productmanufacturingindustry（21.8%）

Machinery andequipment
manufacturingindustry for generalpurpose（30.6%）

Electricalmachinery andequipment
manufacturingindustry（20.1%）

Manufacture ofproduction
machinery（28.6%）(Source)“2022 Census of Manufacture Regional Statistics Table”, METI

(Source) “Report on Prefectural Accounts” ,by the Cabinet Office（FY201９)*Note:Figures in parentheses indicate Kansai’s share of the national total⚫
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⚫

Other service industry
Various product wholesale businesses, etc.
Transportation machinery and equipment
manufacturing industry

Hyogo⚫
⚫

Tanned leather, tanned leather product, furmanufacturing industry (Tanned leather
manufacturing industry, bag manufacturing industry)
General-purpose machinery and equipment
manufacturing industry (boiler / prime mover
manufacturing industry)

Nara
⚫
⚫

Fur manufacturing
Textile industry (Kimono (Japanese clothing) / otherclothing manufacturing industry, knit fabricmanufacturing industry)

Wakayama⚫
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⚫

Textile industry (knit fabric manufacturing industry)
Textile machinery manufacturing industry
Petroleum product / coal product manufacturingindustry (lubricating oil / grease manufacturingindustry)

Companies with high global share are concentrated in Kansai

Kansai is home to a large number of
excellent companies, including those thathave thrived in niche sectors of the global
market and those dealing in parts andmaterials,
whicharebecoming
moreimportant in the supply chain amid changes
in the international situation.

In Kansai, there are many other small andmedium-sized enterprises withinternationally recognized technicalcapabilities, making it easy to findcollaborative partners.

Hokkaido, Tohoku
3%

Kyushu, Okinawa
3%

Chugoku, Shikoku
9%

Chubu
18%

Kanto
40%

Kansai
27%（Source）2020 Global Niche Top Companies Selection 100 List by METI(Source) Based on the data of the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairsand Communications “2016 (Heisei28) Economic Census Activity Survey", theindustries with high employee number specialization coefficient are listed (created byMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Kansai Bureau).

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3-２University/Research Institute Clusters⚫ Kansai is home to a cluster of prestigious universities and research institutions.

⚫ Distinctive R&D bases have been formed and a large number of prestigious universities are clustered in the region. As
such, domestic and international industry-university cooperation is in progress.

Main research and development bases and overseas institutions under industryuniversity cooperation in Kyoto , Osaka , Hyogo-Kobe【Saito（International Culture Park）】＜Life Science Park＞
National Institutes of Biomedical
Innovation, Health andNutrition/NIBIOHN
Bio-Incubator (in cooperation with Osaka
University, etc.)
Japanese Red Cross Kinki Block Blood
CenterVarious companies’ R&D facilitiesOsakaUniversity

Overseas institutions
under industry-university
cooperation in Kansai

Industry-University joint research amountIn terms of monetary amount, 25% of industry-university
joint research throughout Japan is conducted in Kansai, andthe amount of money received per research project is larger
than the national average.

Oxford University Innovation/ OUI Japan office

Industry－university joint research acrossthe nation（Value-basis）

Swissnex in Japan

Kansai
2５％KobeUniversity【Harima Science Garden City】＜Large-scale researchfacilities＞
SPring-8/SACLA

SPring-8/SACLA ⓒRIKEN

KyotoUniversity（Source） The Keihanna Science City

【The Keihanna Science City】＜City of knowledge creation that is paving the way
to the future＞
Cluster of over 150 public and corporate research institutes
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth/RITE
Advanced Telecommunications Research InstituteInternational/ ATR
National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology/ NICTThe National Institutes for Quantum Science andTechnology / QST

The amount of money received
per research project

KansaiJapan【Kobe Medical Industry Development Project】＜Largest Class Medical Bio Cluster in Japan＞

4,113

3,218
（thousand yen）

Cluster of approx. 350 state-of-the-art medical
research institutes, advanced specialty hospitals,
companies, and universities
RIKEN, supercomputer Fugaku（Source）”Implementation status of industry-university cooperation and performance ofjoint research（on an institution-by-institution basis）“ Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology （FY2021）

supercomputer Fugaku ⓒRIKENINVEST JAPAN, INVEST KANSAI

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