Manufacturing in Japan

Keiyō industrial region in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Japan's major export industries include automobiles, consumer electronics (see Electronics industry in Japan), computers, semiconductors, copper, and iron and steel. Additional key industries in Japan's economy are petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, bioindustry, shipbuilding, aerospace, textiles, and processed foods.[1]

Chūkyō industrial region around Nagoya is home to automobile industries.

The Japanese manufacturing industry is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels.[2] Japanese manufacturing and industry is very diversified, with a variety of advanced industries that are highly successful. Industry accounts for 30.1% (2017) of the nation's GDP.[3] The country's manufacturing output is the third highest in the world.[4] Well-known Japanese manufacturing and tech companies include Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Fujitsu, Yamaha, Epson, Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, Nintendo, Sega, Nippon, Takeda Pharma, Mazda, Subaru, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Co, Komatsu, Sharp, Nikon, Canon, NEC and Hitachi are from Japan.[5]

  1. ^ "Japan - INDUSTRY". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  2. ^ CIA Factbook
  3. ^ "The World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Manufacturing, value added (current US$) | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Japan's largest companies in 2021". asian-links.com. Retrieved 2022-03-31.