Economies and Industries of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Kitakyushu City (Reference) Yamaguchi Prefecture Excellent industrial Gateway to exchanges with Rich industrial human Major companies and plants concentration Asia resources in Yamaguchi Prefecture • Many plants of major corporations • Excellent harbor conditions with 2 • Excellent historical background • Ube Industries Ltd. (cement, located owing to the excellent international harbors and 4 major that has traditionally nurtured the chemicals) transportation network harbors in the prefecture social climate encouraging study • Tokuyama Corporation (cement, • Concentration of primary material • The largest export and import and education chemicals) industries such as cement and center in the Chugoku region such • Excellent support system under the • Chofu Seisakusho Co., Ltd. (metal chemicals owing to the rich as auto parts and chemicals industry-academic coordination products) mineral resources such as joint research between • Serves as the production center • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. a university and a private-sector • Increasing entries of processing in western Japan for many global (shipbuilding) and assembly industries such as enterprises company, R&D to develop next • Bridgestone Corporation (rubber) transportation machinery and generation industries, etc. more recently the pharmaceutical • Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless industry Steel Corporation (steel pipes) • Tosoh Corporation (chemicals) Hiroshima Prefecture The largest industrial Manufacturing industry Home of many No. 1 Major companies and plants prefecture in the Chugoku centered around Mazda enterprises in Hiroshima Prefecture and Shikoku regions Motor Corporation • Many local enterprises in a variety •Mazda Motor Corporation • Growth of heavy industries, • The formation of a group of of industries with nationwide (automobile) particularly transportation broad-based automobile-related reputation and a large domestic •Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation machinery such as automobiles companies with Mazda Motor market share through leveraging (shipbuilding) and shipbuilding, leveraging the Corporation on top of the excellent technologies •Ryobi Limited (non-ferrous metal) technological strength developed hierarchy (Refer to the right section) •JMS Co., Ltd. (medical equipment) through military manufacturing • The shipbuilding industry • Ranks No. 12 in Japan in terms of encompassing middle-ranking •Molten Corporation (athletic balls) nominal gross prefectural product and small and medium-sized •Aoyama Trading Co., Ltd. with a share of 2.3% shipbuilding companies and (menswear) in Japan. related manufacturers such as pumps and turbines, which holds the No. 1 share in Japan • Additional concentration of traditional industries such as the fi ber industry and the manufacturing of furniture for newlywed couples Kitakyushu City Concentration of a variety of City of manufacturing Environmental and energy Major companies and plants industries • Steel accounts for approximately industries in Kitakyushu City • Kitakyushu City was born in 1963 40% of the total manufacturing • A forerunner of the eco- •Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal through a merger of 5 cities. industry town business leveraging the Corporation (iron manufacturing, • Mainly heavy and chemical • Concentration of auto assembly concentration of industrial steel) industries (steel in the main) plants including Nissan Motor technology with broad •TOTO Ltd. (construction equipment) manufacturing bases • New concentration of increasingly Kyushu Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor •Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation diverse industries such as auto- Kyushu, Inc., and Daihatsu Motor • Research and development is (petrochemical functional related industries due to the Kyushu Co., Ltd. conducted on new energy sources products) such as the technology to reduce proximity to Asia and the highly • Recent concentration of •Yasukawa Electric Corporation the oxygen content under the developed logistics infrastructure semiconductor design companies (industrial robots) owing to the development of promotion system developed Kitakyushu Science and Research through the industry-academic- •Mitsui High-tec, Inc. Park public coordination (semiconductor-related products) •Zenrin Co., Ltd. (information and communication) YMFG Annual Report 2016 12.