Comparison of Competitiveness between Manufacturing Industry in Urban area and that of Country area

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We found a fact that all municipalities including towns and villages in Japan can be divided into 6 category, these were urban-industry accumulated, middle-industry accumulated, country area-industry accumulated, urban area-not accumulated, middle area-not accumulated, country area -not accumulated, by analyzing Industrial statistics, and each category actually represents the industrial structure of the municipalities which is included in such category.According to statistic analysis, there are considerable differences among 6 category in some indexes such as productivity, wage level etc. Productivity of industry located in country area are considerably low, but wage level are also low. We considered that Competitiveness among each category can be offset in such manner. Further, we made clear that how the industry in each category have been coping with competition against other category, judging from the change of indexes showing performances.We executed questionnaire survey to local government official of all municipalities and found out that category has different characteristics each other in the manner of corporate management and the features of competitiveness. Small and middle sized manufacturing firms based on urban area have strength in technology, marketing. On the contrary, those in country area have poor strength though, they are well supported by local community in various aspects.We made interview studies for several companies or intellectual persons to explore correlations between industrial competitiveness and social situation of local area. Characteristics of some local area influences management and competitiveness of firms located in such area to some extent. A. political measures to promote regional industry tend to be effective, in case putting characteristics of the local area in good use is carefully considered within political measures.