Areal Arrangement of the Big Establishments in Japan

Abstract

This paper is a result of some analyses in the structure of area] distribution of the big establishments in Japan. The indices of the big establihments are selected about the companies with a capital of more than 100 million yens. According to the establishment Census in 1966, there were 5,307 big establishments in Japan. The number of the big establishments does not accord with the number of estrangement was huge in the case of the commerce and the manufacturing industries which have many establishments. Viewed from distrubution of the big establishments by prefectures, their order and number were as follows: Tokyo 2,389 (Ratio to a]] Japan was 45.3%) Osaka 816 (15.4%) Aichi 331(6.3%), Kanagawa and Hyogo 219 (4.2%). In most local prefectures there were usually about 20 companies but foul prefectures Yamanashi, Tottori, Shimane, and Akita have, less than 10 companies. And the more the establishments became large, the more it tended to concentrate in Tokyo and Osaka. Figure I shows the distrubution by cities, towns and villages. According to it, consolidation of establishment was conspicuous in the three metropolises of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, and also in the cities located within the above metropolises. And that, there was some difference of the distribution of the establishment within metropolises among those cities, but the head offices of big consolidation tended to concentrate in each central district. Therefore, the consolidation of these big consolidation is an important factor to constitute CBD. On the other hand, the big establishments were few in local cities, and most establishment in them were finance, transport and services which had their fixed service areas. Thus, area] distribution of the head offices of big establishment, which reflect central function, varies according to the arrangement, scale, centrality which cities have (Figs. 1, 2).