Semiconductors

Automobile and Transport Equipment	Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare
Information and Communication Technology	Electronic Components and Devices
Semiconductors	Biotechnology
Precision Machinery	Life Science
Others

Area which have a large presence of Semiconductors:
Fukuoka, Fukuoka City, Fukushima, Hyogo, Iwate, Kumamoto, Mie, Niigata, Oita, Sakai City, Sendai City, Tokushima, Toyama, Yokohama City

Detailed Information:
Fukuoka: Brain of Kyushu’s “Silicon Island”, producing 5% of the world’s semiconductors and hosting many semicon makers.

Fukuoka City: Emerging LSI design and development hub, with a growing number of semicon industry-related firms entering the region.

Toyama: Has a concentration of IT-related manufacturers and suppliers of circuit boards, materials, electric components and other functional parts.

Hyogo: Amagasaki and Himeji areas serve as manufacturing hubs for the Kansai region.

Niigata: Hosts major manufacturing industry clusters in metals (Sanjo-Tsybame), electrics & machinery and general machinery.

Iwate: Boasts an automobile assembly plant and a growing number of automobile-related industry firms.

Kumamoto: Plays a key role in Kyushu’s Silicon Island IC chip production, accounting for about a third.

Oita: Home to some of the world’s largest semiconductor makers, including Toshiba and Sony.

Tokushima: Home to top global LED makers and optical technology research institutions and universities.

Sakai city: Hosts a number of parts & material SMEs with unique competitive technologies in chemical and metal products fields.

Mie: Boasts some 45 semicon firms, and becoming key area in this field.

Sendai city: Home to Tohoku University, a leading R&D center in MEMS, a semicon industry foundation field.

Fukushima: Boasts a number of firms in both upstream and downstream semicon production.

Yokohama city: Leading ICT industry cluster with 2000 IT firms, employing some 84,000 workers.