- The Greater Nagoya Area accounts for 5.7% of
Japan’s total land area, 8.8% of its population and 9.7% of its
GNP. Including other indexes, the area accounts for about 10%
of the country as a whole today. Among others, the area accounts
for a particularly large proportion of the shipment of manufactured
products (18.2%). In fact, theGreaterNagoya Area features a higher
concentration of manufacturing functions than the Tokyo and Osaka
areas.
- Nagoya City alone accounts for about 2% of
the nation’s population and gross domesticproduct (1.7% and2.4%,respectively).The
whole sale,advertising,and information service industries of the
greater area are concentrated in Nagoya City, which is the core
city of the Greater Nagoya Area.
- A characteristic of the manufacturing industry
in the Greater Nagoya Area is the high ratio of heavy manufacturing
industries,especially industries related to transportation equipment.By
product shipment value, transportation equipment accounted for
as much as 41.8% of thetotal shipment of manufactured products
in 2005. Nagoya City has also a high ratio of heavy manufacturing
industries, but a more even distribution for other manufacturing
industries,such as generalmachinery, than the Greater Nagoya Area.
- There are 51 cities (including Nagoya) within
a 50-kilometer radius of Nagoya City. Of the city’s daytime population,
the number of commuters (including students) aged 15 or older
is 1.605 million, about one third of whom (544,000 people) come
from municipalities around the city. T his shows that there is
a strong relationship between the city and the surrounding municipalities.
- By industry, the city’s gross product shows
high percentages for the services, wholesale, retail, manufacturing,
transportation and telecommunicationindustries. Over theyears,
therehas been amarked shift tothetertiary industries suchas services,asevidenced
by the high percentage of people working in the tertiary industries
(70.9%) in the employment structure.
- A survey on worker household budgets in 2005
shows that disposablein come has decreased from 2004 and fallen
below the national average both in the Greater Nagoya Area and
Nagoya City. The fact that the city’s average consumer propensity
is lower than the national average, while the average savings
rate is higher, reflects the characteristics of its people who
areknown for their conservative consumption behavior.
- EXPO
2005 Aichi, Japan attracted 22 million visitors, and is estimated
to have had an economic effect worth 7.7 trillion yen in terms
of induced domestic products.
- Although
manufacturing is the core industry of the city, the number of
gainfully employed people has been on the decline, which is more
serious than in the other industries. T here are also various
concerns about handing down accumulated skills to the next generation.
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