Economies and Industries of Yamaguchi Prefecture,Hiroshima Prefecture, and Kitakyushu City (Reference)
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Excellent industrial
concentration

Gateway to exchanges withAsia

Rich industrial humanresources• Many plants of major corporations • Excellent harbor conditions with 2 • Excellent historical backgroundlocated owing to the excellent
international harbors and 4 majorthat has traditionally nurtured thetransportation network
harbors in the prefecturesocial climate encouraging studyand education•Concentration of primary material • The largest export and importindustries such as cement andchemicals owing to the richmineral resources• Increasing entries of processing
and assembly industries such astransportation machinery andmore recently the pharmaceuticalindustry

Major companies and plants
in Yamaguchi Prefecture• Ube Industries Ltd. (cement,chemicals)• Tokuyama Corporation (cement,chemicals)

center in the Chugoku region such • Excellent support system under the • Chofu Seisakusho Co., Ltd. (metalas auto parts and chemicals
industry-academic coordination
products)
such as joint research between• Serves as the production center• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
a university and a private-sector
in western Japan for many global(shipbuilding)company, R&D to develop nextenterprises•
Bridgestone Corporation (rubber)generation industries, etc.
• Nippon Steel & Sumikin StainlessSteel Corporation (steel pipes)• Tosoh Corporation (chemicals)

Hiroshima Prefecture
The largest industrial
prefecture in the Chugoku
and Shikoku regions

Manufacturing industry
centered around Mazda
Motor Corporation• Growth of heavy industries,
particularly transportation
machinery such as automobiles
and shipbuilding, leveraging thetechnological strength developed
through military manufacturing• The formation of a group ofbroad-based automobile-relatedcompanies with Mazda Motor
Corporation on top of thehierarchy• Ranks No. 12 in Japan in terms ofnominal gross prefectural productwith a share of 2.3%
in Japan.

• The shipbuilding industry
encompassing middle-ranking
and small and medium-sized
shipbuilding companies andrelated manufacturers such as
pumps and turbines, which holds
the No. 1 share in Japan

Home of many No. 1
enterprises

Major companies and plants
in Hiroshima Prefecture• Many local enterprises in a variety • Mazda Motor Corporationof industries with nationwide(automobile)
reputation and a large domestic• Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation
market share through leveraging(shipbuilding)
excellent technologies• Ryobi Limited (non-ferrous metal)(Refer to the right section)• JMS Co., Ltd. (medical equipment)• Molten Corporation (athletic balls)• Aoyama Trading Co., Ltd.
(menswear)• Additional concentration of
traditional industries suchas the fiber industry and themanufacturing of furniture for
newlywed couples

Kitakyushu City
Concentration of a variety of City of manufacturingindustries• Steel accounts for approximately• Kitakyushu City was born in 1963
through a merger of 5 cities.

40% of the total manufacturingindustry• Concentration of auto assemblyplants including Nissan Motor• New concentration of increasingly Kyushu Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor
Kyushu, Inc., and Daihatsu Motordiverse industries such as autoKyushu Co., Ltd.
related industries due to the• Recent concentration ofproximity to Asia and the highly
semiconductor design companies
developed logistics infrastructure
owing to the development ofKitakyushu Science and ResearchPark• Mainly heavy and chemicalindustries (steel in the main)

Environmental and energy
industries

Major companies and plantsin Kitakyushu City

• A forerunner of the ecotown business leveraging theconcentration of industrial
technology with broad
manufacturing bases• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
Corporation (iron manufacturing,steel)• TOTO Ltd. (construction equipment)• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation• Research and development is(petrochemical functional
conducted on new energy sources products)
such as the technology to reduce• Yasukawa Electric Corporation
the oxygen content under the(industrial robots)
promotion system developed• Mitsui High-tec, Inc.
through the industry-academic(semiconductor-related products)
public coordination• Zenrin Co., Ltd. (information andcommunication)

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