Hanshin Industrial Region
The Hanshin Industrial Region (阪神工業地帯, Hanshin Kōgyō Chitai) is one of the largest
GDP of this area (Osaka and Kobe) is $341 billion, one of the world's most productive regions.[1]
2014 Osaka and Kobe's GDP per capita (PPP) was US$35,902.[2]
Statistics
| Prefecture | Ōsaka Prefecture |
Hyōgo Prefecture |
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| Capital | Ōsaka | Kōbe |
| Establishments | 24,822 | 11,300 |
| Employees | 530,407 | 359,850 |
| Manuf. goods shipments |
¥ 15,961 billion |
¥12,945 billion |
| Value added | ¥6,459 billion | ¥4,808 billion |
(4-digit industrial subclassification[3])
Main cities and industries
Ōsaka Prefecture
chemical, metal
Facilities:
- Rohto Pharmaceutical
- Daiichi Sankyo
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
- Sumitomo Chemical
- Sumitomo Electric Industries
- Sharp
- Kansai Paint
- Kansai Electric Power Company
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Rohto Pharmaceutical
- Shionogi Pharmaceutical
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma
- Sumitomo Pharmaceutical
- Sumitomo Chemical
Sakai: chemical, metal
Facilities:
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- Daikin Industries
- - Air conditioning and chemicals, especially fluorine; has major market share with DuPont.
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Showa Denko
- Sakai Chemical Industry (titanium dioxide, stabilizers & metallic soaps)
- Kyowa (medical)
Daito: electronics
Facilities: and research institutes:
- Matsushita Electric Industrial(Panasonic): the headquarters
- Sanyo: the headquarters
- Funai: the headquarters
Other cities in Osaka prefecture
Facilities:
- Kinki Sharyo in Higashiōsaka (manufacturer of railroad vehicles)
- Sunstar in Takatsuki(manufacture and sales of oral care products): the headquarters
- Daihatsu in Ikeda (cars), the headquarters
- Nitto Denko
- - A chemical company, specializing in reverse osmosis membrane (a market shared with Dow Chemical Company)
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Nippon Shokubai in Suita(manufacture of catalyst)
- JT (Takatsuki(medical laboratory)
- Osaka Bioscience Institute in Suita (a national science research institute established by the Ministry of Science and Technology )
Hyōgo Prefecture
Amagasaki: chemical, metal, electronics
Facilities:
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- - Railroad traffic control system, electric power control system, air traffic control system, Doppler radar, communications satellite, Global Positioning System.
- - Titanium products (about 20% share of the world market[6])
Laboratories, research institutes:
- - Urethane, polyurethane raw materials
- - The largest laboratory of Mitsubishi Electric
- - Electric devices and electronics
Kobe: medical, electronics, heavy industries
Facilities:
- - Shipbuilding, marine structures
- - container ships, submarines, research vessels and vehicles, nuclear reactors, satellites.
- - Shipbuilding, marine structures, trains
- Kobe Steel
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Matsushita Electric Industrial(Panasonic)
- Komatsu (manufactures construction, mining, and military equipment)
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Bayer Kobe Research Center
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Procter & Gamble: the East-Asian and Japanese headquarters.
- Kobe Steel
- Mitsubishi Electric
- RIKEN, a public corporation funded by the government; natural sciences research institute
- - Center for Developmental Biology.
- - Next-Generation Supercomputer Center (From 2010).[7]
Other cities in Hyōgo Prefecture
Facilities:
- Takasago
- Caterpillar, Inc. in Akashi
- Fujitsu in Akashi
- Nippon Shokubai in Osaka and Hyogo: (world share 25%)
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Akashi: motorcycles
- Takasago
- Himeji
- Takasago
- Mitsubishi Electric in Akashi
- Procter & Gamble in Akashi
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Akashi
- Kakogawa
- Takarazuka
- Nippon Shokubai in Himeji: acrylic acidplant
See also
- Kansai Science City
- Keihanshin industrial region
- Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto
References
- ^ Which are the largest city economies in the world and how might this change by 2020?
- ^ "Global Metro Monitor". 30 November 2001.
- ^ Preliminary Report on Census of Manufactures 2005 from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan
- ^ Mitsui Chemicals
- ^ Mitsubishi Materials
- ^ Japan Metal News
- ^ "Press Release". Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
External links
- Mitsubishi Electric Locations
- Mitsubishi Electric Products
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Osaka (Sumitomo) Titanium technologies Co., Ltd
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