Ports, regions and manufacturing systems: Automobile manufacturing in Kyushu, Japan

The locations of seaports and manufacturing activities in Japan have changed considerably since World War II. Despite the geographic spread of economic activities over decades and the uneven development of ports, the cores of both systems have long remained in the same metropolitan areas. While co-location does not provide necessary or causal connection, strong a priori grounds can be offered to posit that a necessary relationship exists between the Japanese manufacturing system's geographic expansion and changes in the maritime transport network. A case study of automobile industry's recent development in the peripheral region of Kyushu identifies some drivers of these evolutions at the level of one particular sector. This suggests that, despite the development of high capacity transport infrastructure and manufacturing facilities in the Japanese periphery, the current manufacturing core is not yet threatened.

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Authors:
- Guerrero, David
- Itoh, Hidekazu
Publication Date: 2017-6

Language

English

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Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 332-341
Serial:
- Case Studies on Transport Policy
- Volume: 5
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2213-624X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2213624X

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Automobile industry; Case studies; Manufacturing; Ports
Geographic Terms: Kyushu (Japan)
Subject Areas: Highways; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

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Accession Number: 01642662
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Jun 23 2017 4:50PM