Where is Japanese industry concentrated?

Industry is mainly concentrated in the Pacific coastal areas, especially the so-called "three bays and one sea" areas, namely Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay and Osaka Bay, as well as the coastal areas of Seto Inland Sea.

This zone accounts for about 24% of Japan's total area, but it has 60% of the population and the number of factories in Japan, more than 67% of the total number of workers, 75% of the industrial output value, 95% of the equipment capacity of large steel joint ventures, and more than 90% of the heavy chemical industry output value.

In particular, the newly-built resource-based industries that consume a lot of raw materials after the war are distributed in this area and become typical representatives of coastal industrial zones.

Pacific Industrial Belt is not only Japan, but also one of the most developed industrial zones in the world.

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The main reasons why Japanese industry is highly concentrated in this belt-shaped region are as follows: First, most of the raw materials and fuels for Japanese industrial development depend on imports, and most of the products depend on exports. Facing foreign markets is the basic starting point of Japan's industrial layout after the war.

In many professional docks along the Pacific coast, imported raw materials and fuels are often directly transported to the production workshop for on-site processing through automatic water delivery lines; At the same time, the products produced are also transported to all parts of the world by sea ships through export professional docks.

Therefore, in this sense, ships and ports have become the sources of Japanese industrial raw materials and fuels and the sales places of products.

This not only saves land, but also shortens the production cycle, and can obtain huge economic benefits.

? Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese Industry