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Fukuoka now hosts 147 fintech enterprises, up from 112 in 2022. The city holds national designation as a Financial and Asset Management Special Zone. Foreign...
Fukuoka City recorded 9.8 million overnight visitors in 2024, surpassing its pre-pandemic peak for the first time. Hotel construction across the city totalled...
Fukuoka City holds Japan's highest startup founding rate at 7.3 per 1,000 existing enterprises. It offers office rents 40% below Shibuya. Its municipal startup...
Kobe's food and beverage sector sits at one of the most unusual inflection points in Japanese manufacturing. Export revenue for Nada sake has climbed 61% since...
Kobe's six container terminals handled 2.71 million TEU in 2023, a 4.2 per cent decline from the previous year. The port now ranks fourth nationally in...
Kobe Steel's hydrogen reduction ironmaking programme requires ¥500 billion in cumulative investment by 2030. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is building hydrogen...
Nintendo's completion of its new Kyoto Development Center in Ukyo-ku added 1,200 development workstations to the prefecture in 2024. It was the largest...
Kyoto's cultural tourism ecosystem generated approximately ¥1.3 trillion in annual economic output through 2025, accounting for 14% of prefectural GDP....
Kyoto Prefecture shipped ¥11.8 trillion worth of manufactured goods in 2023. Electrical machinery, general machinery, and electronic components made up 58% of...
Nagoya accounts for roughly 48% of Japan's total aerospace production value. Within a 50km radius of Komaki Airport, approximately 380 manufacturing...
The most profitable automotive supply chain corridor in Japan is also the one most constrained by the people it cannot find. Aichi Prefecture's 45,000...
Japan's largest port by cargo volume is spending ¥18 billion to automate its way out of a workforce crisis. The Smart Logistics project at Garden Pier, now...
Osaka's financial services sector is not experiencing a single talent crisis. It is experiencing two, running in opposite directions. The derivatives trading...
Osaka Prefecture welcomed 11.5 million international visitors in 2023. That figure represented just 80% of the 2019 peak. By the time Expo 2025 opened on...
Osaka's logistics sector invested heavily in automation to solve its labour crisis. It worked, in principle. Automated storage and retrieval systems, robotic...
Sapporo's agri-food processing and beverage manufacturing sector now contributes approximately ¥1.8 trillion to the metropolitan economy annually. That figure...
Sapporo sits at the centre of a ¥1.4 trillion agricultural and marine product supply chain, serving as the primary consolidation node for everything Hokkaido...
Sapporo's luxury hotel properties reported RevPAR gains of 40% over 2019 levels through 2024. International visitor arrivals to Hokkaido exceeded pre-pandemic...
Tokyo's digital platform sector shed thousands of generalist and administrative roles between 2023 and 2024. Rakuten cut 15% of its non-engineering headcount....
Tokyo's three megabanks have collectively announced plans to eliminate tens of thousands of positions through AI and automation by the end of this decade. MUFG...
Japan's content industry generated ¥13.9 trillion in 2023, with Tokyo Prefecture responsible for roughly 68% of that value. Content exports reached ¥4.7...
Yokohama's automotive sector cut thousands of positions in 2024 and 2025. It also could not fill over a thousand specialised roles in the same period. These...
Yokohama's Keihin industrial corridor lost roughly 1,400 workers last year. The 3.2% annual contraction in heavy industry employment fits the narrative that...
Yokohama's Honmoku D-4 terminal opened in March 2026, adding 400 metres of quay length and roughly 400,000 TEU of annual container capacity. It is the most...
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