The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-30
BY $. BURTON HEATH
MA staff Correspondent

WASHlNGION, June 80 -
japanese industry is concentrate
ed very largely in l6 cities that
are so grouped as 10 constitute
six major industrial areas. Four
are located on the main island of
Honshu and two on the south
ernmoSt large island-Kyushu.
Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki
and TSurumi on the eastern
coast of Honshu, make up the
Number One industrial center,
which has peculiar psychological
importance because Tokyo is
the capital and Yokohama the
principal seaport. Their COM
bined population probably APP
proaches 100000 persons.
Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and ANA
gaSaki, in southern Honshu,
rank next to the Tokyo-Yoka-
hama district in population, with
about 100000, and are very
important industrially, besides
constituting, as a group, the ma
tons prime shipbuilding center.
But the relatively little known
Nagoya in eastern Honshu, with
about the population of Los An
geles, ranks ahead of these more
publicized cities in war produc-
ton. In fact, Nagoya probably
turns out more military material
than any other single city in ia
pan.
A fourth industrial center OF.
Honshu - Niigata, Nagaska and
Aomi on the western coasts
of relatively minor importance
Nagasaki, including IN | e +
SaSebo, is most important be-
cause it is presumably the port
from which sails much of the
military and naval traffic with
which Allied forces in the
Southwest Pacific have to con-
tend. These cities also are i'm
portant industrially.
The generally unpublished
Fukuoka and YaWata are of al
most as great importance to ia
pan as Pittsburgh is TO the
United States or Birmingham to
England.
AS nearly as can be deter
mined, about a third Of Japan S
industry now is located in con-
quered territory - notably in
Korea.
Military importance of tar
gets in Japan may be judged
from the following data con-
corning these six areas:
Tokyo, metropolis of Japan,
has population of around
100000, almost as large as
New York City. The growth of
about 100000 during the five
years from 1885 TO 1910 suggests
the pressure under which Japan
was stepping up her industrial
activity during that period.
AS nearly as can be told, To-
kyo ranks first in the manufac-
ture of electrical equipment,
particularly of the light types;
first IN the making of airplane
parts; second in machine tools.
The city is believed TO have
more than 100 plants making
parts for planes, most of which
are assembled elsewhere; but
the biggest aircraft plants are
IN other cities.
Besides these, Tokyo industry
plays an important part in the
output Of chemicals, ordnance.
non ferrous metals, rubber pro-
cesslng, small iron and steel
products. Her industry is pre-
dominantly light. She is believed
to share with Nagoya and Ky
OTTO leadership in the manufac-
ture of bearings.
YOKAHAMA
Yokohama is the port for To-
kyo," and aside from any spe-
cific naval installations, presum-
ably still is Japan's number one
seaport. Accordingly - again
excepting navy yards - Yoka-
hama is supposed to rank at the
top in shipbuilding. Japan 5
number one shipbuilding COM
pany was operating in Yoka-
hama al last public reports.
The Nissan, automobile plant,
Japans biggest, at least up TO
Pearl Harbor, is here, and pre-
Sumably, like American motor
plants, is making tanks, jeeps,