Investment Guide to Tohoku

overview Basic Data

Area, Population, Industrial structure, and Industry



*Geographic divisions of the Tohoku area are the seven prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima, and Niigata.

*Since the total of the number of employed workers include those that are impossible to classify, it does not correspond with the total of industry classification.

*The gross prefectural product and the total of gross product classified by industry do not correspond due to the interests and import duties.

(Data list)
1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications "Population Census of Japan 2005"
2. Cabinet Office "Annual Report on Prefectural Accounts 2009" and "Annual Report on National Accounts 2009"
3. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Census of Manufactures 2007"

[Source] Development Bank of Japan Tohoku Branch "2010 Tohoku Handbook"

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