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Higashiosaka,Distinguished for Its Manufacturing Expertise
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Higashiosaka,one
of the country's most outstanding cities,is known
as a manufacturing town.Its contains about 8,000 plants,ranking
it fifth in
Japan and placing it first in the nation for plant density,ahead
of both Tokyo
and Osaka.
This city's industrial structure is composed of diverse
and highly integrated
small and medeum-sized enterprises that contribute to
local industries such as wire drawing,rivet hinge manufacturing,tool
making,metalwork,and the
manufacturing of machinery,electronic products,and plastics.
Although roughly 80 prcent of these enterprises are
small in scale,
employing fewer than 20 workers,many are actively oursuing
the
development of new products and technologies.These enterprises
have
earned an excellent reputation for their highly refined
expertise in technology
and development,and they enjoy the confidence of customers
throughout
Japan and around the world. |
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Launching
Advanced Technology Worldwide
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Higashiosaka
benefits from a diversity of small and medeum-sized
enterprises
that offer both advanced technology and creativety.It
is said that,if the city's
expertise wereconcentrated,it would be capable of meeting
the challenge of launching a rocket. |
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Major Market
Shareholders Lead the Community
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Higashiosaka
is home to more than 100 companies tyat either represent
the
leading dege of their respective industries or habe
gained the lion'sshare of
their respectivedomestic markets.As the corporate leaders
of their
community,they actively promote their industries. |
Higashiosaka City shown
in the statistical chart
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| Area: |
61.81 square
kilometers
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| Population: |
512,894 (As of
December 1, 2004)
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Integrated
Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Site
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Total amount
of shipped products: 1,337,526,750,000 yen
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Number of manufacturing
businesses (plants and offices): 8,087
(Source - Industrial Statistics Research in 2000)
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 Small
and medium-sized high-tech enterprises, mainly manufacturing
businesses, are gathered in our city. By making use
of the production networks in Higashiosaka, business
opportunities are unlimited.
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| Our advantage lies in
the strong networks between plants and factories inside
the city. Most of our enterprises are independent of
major conglomerates. |
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| Finished products are in a wide range of fields. Diverse technologies have been fostered in the city where “Anything can be manufactured”. |
| Graph [Anything can be manufactured] |
| There are five wholesale parks which handle Hardware, Machine, Clothing, Paper and Stationary and Vinyl sheeting, plus the Higashiosaka truck terminal. This area is a base for commercial distribution and wholesale parks. |
| Graph [A base for commercial distribution] |
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Location
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Higashiosaka is
situated next to the center of Kansai economic
activity, the city of Osaka.
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Access
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Conveniently
located between urban area of Osaka and Nara. Easily
accessed by a variety of transportation networks.
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Air/Road
・Approx. 50 minutes by car from Kansai International
Airport.
・Approx.40 minutes by train or bus from Osaka
(Itami) International Airport. |
Railway
・Approx. 20 minutes by car to the heart of Osaka.
・Approx. 20 minutes by subway to the heart of
Osaka. |
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