Japan's major export industries include automobiles, consumer electronics (see Japanese consumer electronics industry), computers, semiconductors, and iron and steel. Not to mention copper as a very much used metal.
Additional key industries in Japan's economy are petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, bioindustry, shipbuilding, aerospace, textiles, and processed foods.
Japanese manufacturing industry is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and ...
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Japan's major export industries include automobiles, consumer electronics (see Japanese consumer electronics industry), computers, semiconductors, and iron and steel. Not to mention copper as a very much used metal.
Additional key industries in Japan's economy are petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, bioindustry, shipbuilding, aerospace, textiles, and processed foods.
Japanese manufacturing industry is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels.
Japan dominated world shipbuilding in the late 1980s, filling more than half of all orders worldwide. Its closest competitors were South Korea and Spain, with 9% and 5.2% of the market, respectively. Japan's shipyards replaced their West European competitors as world leaders in production through advanced design, fast delivery, and low production costs.
The Japanese shipbuilding industry was hit by a lengthy recession from the late 1970s through most of the 1980s, which resulted in a drastic cutback in the use of facilities and in the...
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