The opening of the Fukuoka Office.

Kyushu has a scale of economy equivalent to that of a country. In recent years, we have opened a business office in Fukuoka, a gateway to East Asia such as China, which has been growing rapidly, as a base for business and research and development in Kyushu and East Asia.

Kyushu, a southwestern island of the Japanese archipelago, is composed of seven prefectures: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima.
Kyushu has a population of 13.17 million (10.3% of Japan) and its various economic indexes including land area and GRP account for approximately 10% of the entire country so that the region is called the “10% economy.”

The gross regional product value of Kyushu is approximately 44 trillion yen. The region’s scale of economy is equivalent to that of Austria, the 29th in the world. With a large geographical area, clean water, and an abundant workforce, semiconductor related industry, automobile industry and agriculture, forestry and fisheries are the primary industries of Kyusyu.