The Hanshin Industrial Region (阪神工業地帯, Hanshin Kōgyō Chitai) is one of the largest industrial regions in Japan. Its name comes from the on-reading of the kanji used to abbreviate the names of Osaka (大阪) and Kobe (神戸), the two largest cities in the megalopolis. The GDP of this area (Osaka and Kobe) is $341 billion, one of the world's most productive regions. 2014 Osaka and Kobe's GDP per capita (PPP) was US$35,902.
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)
Main cities and industries
Ōsaka Prefecture
Osaka: medical, 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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- - Air conditioning and chemicals, especially fluorine; has major market share with DuPont.
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Showa Denko
- Sakai Chemical Industry Archived 2007-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (titanium dioxide, stabilizers & metallic soaps)
- Kyowa (medical)
Kadoma, Moriguchi, 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 Archived 2007-02-27 at the Wayback Machine in Suita (manufacture of catalyst)
- JT (Japan Tobacco) in 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)
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).
Other cities in Hyōgo Prefecture
Facilities:
- Asahi Glass Co. in Takasago
- Caterpillar, Inc. in Akashi
- Fujitsu in Akashi
- Nippon Shokubai Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine in Osaka and Hyogo: catalysts, especially acrylic acid (world share 15%) and super-absorbent polymers (world share 25%)
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Akashi: motorcycles
- Kobe Steel in Kakogawa, Takasago
- Nippon Steel in Himeji
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Takasago
- Mitsubishi Electric in Akashi
- Procter & Gamble in Akashi
Laboratories, research institutes:
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Akashi
- Kobe Steel in Kakogawa
- Sumitomo Chemical in Takarazuka
- Nippon Shokubai in Himeji: acrylic acid plant
See also
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". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
- "Press Release". Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
External links
- Mitsubishi Electric Locations
- Mitsubishi Electric Products Archived 2007-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Osaka (Sumitomo) Titanium technologies Co., Ltd